It can be inferred from the passage that the "artificial distinction" refers to the A. practice utilized in dramatic tragedies of providing different structural models for the public and the private spheres B. ideology of many dramatic tragedies that advocate passive obedience only in the private sphere and not in the public sphere C. convention that drama ought to concern events in the public sphere and that novels ought to concern events in the private sphere D. assumption made by the authors of conventional dramatic tragedies that legitimate tragic action occurs only in the public sphere E. approach taken by the dramatic tragedies in depicting male and female characters differently, depending on whether their roles were public or private