Questão 753710

Directions: Read Text III and answer question 04 and 05 accordingly.

TEXT III

_____ Franval who lived in Paris, where he was born,

___ possessed, along with an income of 400,000 livres, the

___ finest figure, the most pleasant face and the most varied

___ talents; but beneath this attractive exterior lay hidden

5 __every vice, and unfortunately those of which the adoptionevery vice, and unfortunately those of which the adoption

___ and habitual indulgence lead so rapidly to crime. An

___ imagination more unbridled than anything one can depict

___ was Franval’s prime defect; men of this kind do not mend

___ their ways, the decline of power makes them worse; the

10_less they do, the more they undertake; the less theyless they do, the more they undertake; the less they

___ achieve, the more they invent; each age brings new ideas,

___ and satiety, far from cooling their ardour, only prepares

___ the way for more fatal refinements.

(SADE, Marquis de. The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade. 2000.)

TEXT II

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it

was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it

was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it

was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it

5 was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we

had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we

were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going the

other way – in short, the period was so far like the present

period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its

10 being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative

degree of comparison only.

(DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.

Penguin Books, 1994.)

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