⬛ TEXTO — Itens (01 a 07)
In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a strange little novel that would eventually make her world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry, Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what they’re doing.”
🔗 Texto adaptado de: Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI. In: Big Think. Internet: <bigthink.com>.
3. In the last sentence of the first paragraph, “awry” is used to indicate that Victor Frankenstein’s plan went well, as his creature was similar to a human being.
Gabarito: ERRADO
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
O item foca no valor semântico do advérbio awry e em sua relação direta com a reação emocional de Frankenstein, descrita logo em seguida como “realizing with horror”.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica
O termo awry significa wrong, amiss ou gone badly. No contexto, indica que o plano de Frankenstein deu errado, o que é confirmado pelo fato de a criatura ser “hideous to him” e provocar horror no criador.
Portanto, não há qualquer indicação de sucesso do plano, nem de semelhança positiva com um ser humano.
🚩 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da UnB
A UnB explora o desconhecimento lexical: candidatos que não dominam awry podem inferir sentido positivo pelo contexto científico do experimento. O texto, porém, associa o termo a falha e horror.
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ Awry = deu errado / saiu do controle.
✔ O texto descreve horror e fracasso, não sucesso.
✔ A afirmação do item contradiz o sentido lexical e contextual.
🔎 Item ERRADO.