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Answered a Question in Fifth Business

Due to the number of characters allowed in answers, I will not be able to answer...

Answered a Question in Iliad

This is an interesting question, in that I've not heard it considered before, and,...

Answered a Question in Fifth Business

These characters' "voices" provide a different perspective, for Dunstan, on life...

Answered a Question in The Odyssey

A classic English-language epic is Paradise Lost by John Milton.  While it is not...

Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights

Edgar Linton represents civilization; he is the order to Heathcliff's chaos, and...

Answered a Question in She Walks in Beauty

My answer to this intriguing question is another question:  how could it possibly...

Answered a Question in The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

There we will sit upon the rocksAnd see the shepherds feed their flocks,

Answered a Question in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

The tick is a small insect that uses its sense of smell to locate victims, and...

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Answered a Question in The Importance of Being Earnest

The main plot of The Importance of Being Earnest concerns the obstacles to the...

Answered a Question in The Odyssey

I'm assuming you're talking about Book IV, when Telemachus visits King Menelaus...

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Lovers' Infiniteness

Answered a Question in Lovers' Infiniteness

Like most of Donne's poetry, "Love's Infinitenesse" (also seen in some editions as...

Answered a Question in The Importance of Being Earnest

Satire and parody are not exactly the same thing, but they are related.  A...

Answered a Question in Fifth Business

I guess I think of Dunstan's mother as a primarily negative influence on his...

Answered a Question in People of the Book

This is a rather general question, but I think that you could approach this novel...

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Clouds of Witness

Answered a Question in Clouds of Witness

It could be that this passage about the "jolie blonde" is the biggest red herring,...

Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet

I think it can be argued that the framework of the play (the "frame story" which...

Answered a Question in Hamlet

Hamlet is doing double-speak the whole conversation with Polonios (Act 2 Scene 2),...

Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff succeeds spectacularly (and mysteriously, and, perhaps,...

Answered a Question in Fifth Business

Dunny does some serious growing and changing in the novel, but he also realizes...

Answered a Question in Fifth Business

There are several different ways of looking at this question, and in the third...

Answered a Question in Fifth Business

Dunstan can be seen to act as "fifth business" to Diana Marfleet, but I don't...

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The Dead