Read this line from Frankenstein:

And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning. . .

An adept is one who is an expert at something.

Why does the author use the word unadept in this line?

To show frustration
To show confidence
To show fear
To show expertise

The novel "Frankenstein" by the English writer Mary Shelly tells the story of the scientist Victor Frankenstein as he creates a creature as part of an experiment and the consequences this creation had. In the excerpt presented the main character Victor Frankenstein is explaining his first contact with science and the ideas that took him to create the creature during childhood and adolescence, because of this the narrator explains for some time he explored multiple contradictory theories and struggled against the amount of information and knowledge describing himself as an "unadept" during this time. This shows, during this excerpt, the narrator feels overwhelmed and frustrated as it seems he cannot find the information or knowledge he is looking for. Thus, the word unadept in the line "mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories" which is the opposite of the word adept that means an expert or skilled, show the narrator inexperience and frustration as he trying to understand nature. Therefore, the author uses the word unadept to show frustration.