Identify the reason for the speaker’s need to colour her hair, as per the extract.
- Her control over what makes her look beautiful.
- Her desire to be loved for inner beauty
- Her need to change people’s perception about beauty
- Her conviction that she is beautiful inside
Answer:
From the lines:
But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”
Checking the options:
- A. Her control over what makes her look beautiful.
- B. Her desire to be loved for inner beauty
- C. Her need to change people’s perception about beauty
- D. Her conviction that she is beautiful inside - This is correct.
So, the correct answer is option D.
