Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Although the Brontes have been written about more than any other literary family, it still comes as a shock to be reminded of just how weird they were. Patrick Bronte - the father of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their dissolute brother Branwell - may have been a priest, but he had such a low opinion of his fellow man that he carried a loaded pistol at all times. As arrogant as he was brutish, he refused to allow his children to eat meat because he thought it would make them soft. Not surprisingly, the Brontes were not popular with neighbours - partly because of their bristlingly suspicious natures and partly because of the way they looked.The Brontes have been written about more than any other literary familyThey had many idiosyncrasies and rarely left their houseClaire Harman captures how extraordinary the Brontes' story is 
 Question:Instead, Claire Harman calmly and persuasively shows how it was the very drabness of _'s day-to-day existence that sent her imagination soaring to wild extremes.

Charlotte