Question

What is the author’s main purpose for writing this passage?



to present the plight of the Suffragettes who gave up their freedom as a form of protest



to demonstrate the gradual change in society’s attitude toward persecution



to challenge society’s perception of mere demonstrations as acts of martyrdom



to persuade society to bring about a change in the ineffective methods of protest

Answer 1

what passage

Answer 2

Where is the Passage?

Answer 3

The Modern Martyr
by G. K. Chesterton (excerpt from All Things Considered)

The incident of the Suffragettes who chained themselves with iron chains to the railings of Downing Street is a good ironical allegory of most modern martyrdom. It generally consists of a man chaining himself up and then complaining that he is not free. Some say that such larks retard the cause of female suffrage, others say that such larks alone can advance it; as a matter of fact, I do not believe that they have the smallest effect one way or the other.

The modern notion of impressing the public by a mere demonstration of unpopularity, by being thrown out of meetings or thrown into jail is largely a mistake. It rests on a fallacy touching the true popular value of martyrdom. People look at human history and see that it has often happened that persecutions have not only advertised but even advanced a persecuted creed, and given to its validity the public and dreadful witness of dying men. The paradox was pictorially expressed in Christian art, in which saints were shown brandishing as weapons the very tools that had slain them. And because his martyrdom is thus a power to the martyr, modern people think that any one who makes himself slightly uncomfortable in public will immediately be uproariously popular.

Answer 4

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