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Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer? for CAT 2024 is part of CAT preparation. The Question and answers have been prepared according to the CAT exam syllabus. Information about Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer? covers all topics & solutions for CAT 2024 Exam. Find important definitions, questions, meanings, examples, exercises and tests below for Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?.

Solutions for Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer? in English & in Hindi are available as part of our courses for CAT. Download more important topics, notes, lectures and mock test series for CAT Exam by signing up for free.

Here you can find the meaning of Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer? defined & explained in the simplest way possible. Besides giving the explanation of Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer?, a detailed solution for Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer? has been provided alongside types of Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer? theory, EduRev gives you an ample number of questions to practice Directions:Read the passage and answer the question based on it.Until relatively recently, Shakespeares contact with the scientific world has gone largely unnoticed among both scholars and general audiences. Perhaps Shakespeare scholars and audiences dont notice the way he takes up science because they are unfamiliar with much of the science he was exposed to, while most scientists dont see Shakespeare as valuable for reflecting on science because they assume he was unfamiliar with it. Usually, even when readers are made aware of Shakespeares references to this or that scientific subject - perhaps Hamlets reference to infinity or Lears allusions to atomism - these are treated as little more than interesting artefacts, window-dressing to Shakespeares broader human concerns.A small but growing number of scholars are now taking up the connection between Shakespeare and science. And, spurred perhaps by science fiction, by the ways that science factors in the works of key late-modern writers such as Nabokov, Pynchon, and Wallace, and by the rise of scientific themes in contemporary literary fiction, a growing number of readers are aware that writers can and do take up science, and many are interested in what they do with it.When we familiarise ourselves with the history of science, we see the imaginative worlds Shakespeare creates to demonstrate sciences power to shape our self-understanding, and the power of the literary arts to shape our response to science. We also see that Shakespeare was remarkably prescient about the questions that science would raise for our lives. He explores, for example, how we are personally affected by the uncertainties that cosmological science can introduce, or what it means when scientists claim that our first-hand experience is illusory, or how we respond when science probes into matters of the heart.Shakespeare takes up references to the morbid art, and to other new discoveries, to show that when scientific investigations yield new ideas about nature, what ensues is an altered relation to ourselves. In fact, Shakespeare explores the philosophical, psychological, and cultural impact of many more scientific fields besides human anatomy, reflecting poetically on theories about germs, atoms, matter, falling bodies, planetary motion, heliocentrism, alchemy, the humours, algebra, Arabic numerals, Pythagorean geometry, the number zero, and the infinite. The inquiries that drove Renaissance science, and the universe it disclosed, are deeply integrated into Shakespeares poetic worlds.By the example of his own plays, Shakespeare suggests that one of the poets most important tasks in an age dominated by science is to survey the full extent of sciences power to shape our minds and souls, and then to turn to the poetic imagination in response. He introduces us to new scientific ways of thinking and encourages us to reflect upon the uncertainties and paradoxes that science presents to us. And he shows us how to create the language and poetic ideas that might help us to counteract sciences reductionist tendencies.Yet Shakespeare does so without dismissing the validity of science; instead, he seeks to understand it. Far from creating a bifurcation by which science and poetry are in separate domains, he embraces the world of science and creates poetic worlds that reflect deeply and philosophically on scientific insights and their human implications, recognising that science will become deeply enmeshed in our lives. For Shakespeare, poetry has the power to help us to live with the revelations of science, and so science must make way for poetry.Q. The author quotes the examples of Hamlet and Lear toa)show how Shakespeare used scientific imagery in his plays, thus, adding to their contemporary appealb)prove that his understanding of Renaissance science was flawed and his knowledge was incompletec)convey that Shakespeare used science to moralise about human life and always used them as metaphorsd)prove that science appeared in Shakespearean plays much before scientific discoveries were madeCorrect answer is option 'A'. Can you explain this answer? tests, examples and also practice CAT tests.