Read the following passage given below and answer the question.
"This is the most powerful, meaningful work we have seen', the famous artist exclaimed to the crowd. 'This is a picture of what could have been a dystopian future. One which offers no hope. However, students, do you see how it has been torn up and repositioned? This signifies that our visionary here, Kabir, has refused to accept any ugly forecast. His picture tells us that we can tear it up and start afresh. Think afresh. Find new solutions. Think of extraordinary ways to make it a more beautiful world. Thank you Kabir".
Principal De murmured too, 'Thank you, Kabir.' She was, however, on the microphone, and therefore the whole crowd of students followed her lead. Hundreds of young voices rang out as one. 'Thank you, Kabir.'
Kabir stood there and grinned. He waved his trophy. He bowed. He did a namaste. When the applause did not die down, he even did a couple of cartwheels.
What positive message can one gather from the given passage? Select the most appropriate option :-
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → There is always a possibility to think of extraordinary ways to find new solutions.
The picture began as a hopeless, dystopian future, but it was torn up and repositioned. The artist reads the hopeful lesson in it: "we can tear it up and start afresh. Think afresh. Find new solutions. Think of extraordinary ways to make it a more beautiful world." The positive message is that new solutions can always be found.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Our future is 'dystopian'. — Incorrect. Contradicted: Dystopian means describing an imagined world or future in which everything is as bad as it can be. The passage says the future "could have been" dystopian; the whole point is that it need not be. The statement is also negative, not positive.
Example: The novel paints a dystopian picture of a world without clean water.
Option 2: Future offers no hope. — Incorrect. Wrong time: "one which offers no hope" describes the picture before Kabir tore it up; the message of the passage is the opposite.
Option 3: We should refuse to accept anything which is ugly. — Incorrect. Too broad: Kabir refuses an ugly forecast, a gloomy prediction about the future, not everything that is ugly. The option stretches the idea too far and misses the message about new solutions.