Which of the following is most likely one of the main questions that “Wave Makers” examines?

Texto para as questões de 38 a 40.

A TELEVISION DRAMA ABOUT TAIWANESE POLITICS

Presidential elections in Taiwan will soon take place. Functionaries in the two main parties frantically smear [mancham a reputação de] the rivalcandidate and scramble [se esforçam] to shape the image of their own candidate, hiring influencers, inventing catchy [cativantes] slogans, and filming touching [comoventes] moments with voters on the street. But there is one key difference between the universe of “Wave Makers,” a hit political drama that came out on Netflix in April, and Taiwanese reality: in the series, the China question, usually at the center of the island’s politics, does not exist.

This concept means that the focus is on domestic issues rather than grand matters of national identity or the threat of invasion. Drawing on deep research and interviews, the show zooms in on the sacrifices women are asked to make for supposedly important causes. It tells a hopeful story of one brave female character standing up for [defendendo] another woman.

The fictional election is a vehicle to examine thorny [espinhosas] questions of politics and morality. How much should people be willing to give up for the sake of a wider goal? Where is the line between pragmatic compromise and hypocrisy? All the characters wrestle with clashes [conflitos, embates] between their political mission and personal ideals. The liberal presidential nominee is against the death penalty but fears to say so in public. A young campaigner is castigated as unethical by his friends for missing protests because he was busy making party-propaganda videos. His wellworn [bem usada] answer is that power, not protests, brings change.