Which one of the following is the best paraphrase of the above?
Read the extract carefully and answer the question that follows:
Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Fortune in men has some small difference made,
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade;
The cobbler apron’d and the parson gown’d,
The friar hooded, and the monarch crown’d.
Which one of the following is the best paraphrase of the above?
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Correct answer: (A) Honour and shame do not depend on a man’s position in the world, but on what he is and what he does.
Explanation
In these lines from Pope’s ‘An Essay on Man’, honour and shame do not come from one’s station in life (rags or brocade, cobbler or monarch) but from how well one acts one’s part.