Read the excerpt from Act I of The Importance of Being Farnest.
The epigram that Algernon uses in his last line provides
a critique about
Jack. Of course it's mine. [Moving to him.) You have
seen me with it a hundred times, and you have no right
whatsoever to read what is written inside. It is a very
ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case.
Algernon. Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule
about what one should read and what one shouldn't.
More than half of modern culture depends on what one
shouldn't read
O how the rules of Victorian society were not very strict
and were not taken seriously.
O how members of the upper class were not concerned
with the rules of society and rarely followed them.
O how the rules of Victorian society dictated many
things, even what was proper to read.
Ohow members of high society rarely read books and
were not concerned with cultural knowledge.

answer C-- how the rules of Victorian society dictated many things, even what was proper to read.

Explanation:

glamis thou art, and cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promis'd; yet do i fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition; but without the illness should attend it. what thou wouldst highly, that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, and yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great glamis, that which cries, "thus thou must do, if thou have it: and that which rather thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone." hie thee hither, that i may pour my spirits in thine ear; and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd withal.  

he lacks ambition.  

he is hesitant.  

he lacks courage.  

he has moral scruples.