Click to read the passage from "Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance," by Martin Luther King Jr. Then answer the question.
Which of the following best states the central idea of this passage?

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .

a. the idea that women need protection from men is a myth.