Premise: The author describes a type of play with a young, eager protagonist who faces an indifferent or hostile society.
Premise:The playwrights wanted the audience to empathize with the protagonist.
Conclusion: Therefore, historians do not regard these plays as serious revelations about the societies depicted.
What attribute of these plays makes them an undesirable source of historical information? Let's see which answer choice answers this question.
A. We don't know if the playwrights wrote about their own society or another. This doesn't help us.
B. This is correct, because exaggerating the weakness of the society does not provide historically accurate information. It makes sense that historians would not rely on them.
C. If the historians believed this, then they would regard these plays as serious revelations.
D. Again, this would suggest that historians do value these plays for their historical accuracy.
E. There is no mention of popularity in the passage. We do not know if these plays were unpopular, therefore this doesn't explain the historians' viewpoint.
