The lines "Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stencilled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?" reflect which of the recurring themes of 20th and 21st century American literature?

A) the desire for social equality for all members of society

B) the desire for freedom from the growing specter of world war

C) the desire to express individuality and not be ruled by society

D) the desire to reclaim the more ordered cultural past that had disappeared.

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1 December, 23:46

The lines "Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stencilled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?" reflect which of the recurring themes of 20th and 21st century American literature?

A) the desire for social equality for all members of society

B) the desire for freedom from the growing specter of world war

C) the desire to express individuality and not be ruled by society

D) the desire to reclaim the more ordered cultural past that had disappeared.

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Collin Holder · Answer 1

C) the desire to express individuality and not be ruled by society

Explanation:

The text shown in the question above reveals the willingness and the need to act in an original way, outside the standards formed and imposed by society. The speaker in the text above, states that we all act in a standardized way, everything we do is standardized which leaves us the same, without personality, as well as dolls cut out of a folded paper or drawings on the wall.

However, the speaker states that it is possible to fight against this standardization, at that moment, the speaker shows a common characteristic in American literature of the 20th and 21st century, which is the desire to express individuality and not be governed by society.