. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:-
An Englishman, Arthur Young, travelled through France during the years from 1787 to 1789 and wrote detailed descriptions of his journeys. He often commented on what he saw.
`He who decides to be served and waited upon by slaves, ill-treated slaves at that, must be fully aware that by doing so he is placing his property and his life in a situation which is very different from that he would be in, had he chosen the services of free and well-treated men. And he who chooses to dine to the accompaniment of his victims' groans, should not complain if during a riot his daughter gets kidnapped or his son's throat is slit.'
a) What message is Young trying to convey here?
b) Whom does he mean when he speaks of ‘‘slaves’?
c) Who is he criticising? What dangers does he sense in the situation of 1787?
Answers
Answer:
(a)Young is trying to convey here that the injustice in the French society will not last any longer and the result of the revolt will be too much disastrous for the exploiters.
(b)Here, slaves are referred to the members of the third estate who are the underprivileged ones.
(c)He is criticizing the society of France at that time. He criticizes the nobles and the mentality of clergy.He can sense the upcoming dangers to the noble men and the clergy by the underprivileged that is the third estate's members who are preparing for their revolts against them.
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Question
a) What message is Young trying to convey here?
b) Whom does he mean when he speaks of ‘‘slaves’?
c) Who is he criticising? What dangers does he sense in the situation of 1787?
Answer
a) Social system based on injustice will not last long
b) He ment the peasent, servent and the landless sharecropper who were the unprivilaged and deprived section of france.