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The Canterville Ghost
Virginia's interactions with the ghost show her to be a compassionate and pure person. If the rest of the family ignores, ridicules, and plays jokes on the ghost—or symbolically tries to rub him...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mr Otis is clearly forceful and direct. He openly speaks his mind as illustrated when he speaks to Lord Canterbury about the ghost. He tells the lord that if such a thing existed, it would be used...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville ghost devises an elaborate scheme for frightening the Otises on his third attempt. He especially wants to teach the twins a lesson and decides he will sit on their chests, stand...
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter One of "The Canterville Ghost," Lord Canterville reveals why he could no longer stay at Canterville Chase. For some time, he explains, many members of the Canterville family have lived...
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The Canterville Ghost
In "The Canterville Ghost," the ghost almost always appears in a dark room. We see this in Chapter Two when the ghost makes his first appearance before the family. He waits until all of the lights...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mr. Otis offers Sir Simon's ghost some oil. Mr. Otis wants Sir Simon to oil his squeaky ghost chains, so the chains won't make so much noise at night. Soon after the Otis family moves into...
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The Canterville Ghost
I believe that this question is referring to events that occur in section four of the story. Up to this point, Sir Simon has been putting forth a valiant effort to scare the Otis family....
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter One of "The Canterville Ghost," Mrs Otis, one of the new tenants of Canterville Chase, spots a "dull red stain" on the floor of the library. This prompts Mrs Umney, the housekeeper, to...
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The Canterville Ghost
The drive from the railway station in Ascot to Canterville Chase is initially uneventful and peaceful. Members of the Otis family are able to delight in happy pastoral scenes that correspond with...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville ghost makes a number of attempts to scare the Otis family. In Chapter Two, for instance, he reapplies the blood stain in the library, which the family have cleaned off. In the same...
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The Canterville Ghost
The ghost decides to appear as Reckless Rupert, the Headless Earl, a trick that he found successful in the past in scaring people. He spends three hours applying his make-up and costume to get...
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The Canterville Ghost
In the story, the Canterville Ghost gave Virginia a box of jewels before he died. Upon Virginia's return to her family, she presented her father, Mr. Otis, with the box of jewels. Later, however,...
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The Canterville Ghost
The answer depends upon your definition of "ill." In the story, the author describes the ghost as having fallen "ill" on two occasions. The first occasion happens after the ghost tries to put on...
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The Canterville Ghost
At the beginning of the story, Virginia does not really react towards the ghost. She does not try to interfere with his ghostly duties, for example, nor does she play tricks on or humiliate him,...
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The Canterville Ghost
The proof you are looking for can be found in the closing paragraphs of "The Canterville Ghost." By this point in the story, the Duke and Virginia are married. They are returning home from their...
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The Canterville Ghost
In this comic reversal on the classic ghost story, this ghost feels humbled because he is unable to frighten the Otis family. Although he tries everything in his arsenal of "ghost haunting an...
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter Four of the story, the Duke of Cheshire comes to spend one week of the holidays at Canterville Chase. On his arrival, the ghost is tempted to dress up as "The Vampire Monk," one of his...
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The Canterville Ghost
At the beginning of "The Canterville Ghost," Lord Canterville sells his ancestral home, Canterville Chase, to an American, Mr Hiram B Otis, and his family. Mr Otis is an American ambassador and his...
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The Canterville Ghost
The most basic attitude difference between Mr. Otis and Lord Canterville is their attitude toward the ghost. The attitude difference starts out as a difference in belief. Lord Canterville...
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The Canterville Ghost
In the story, Lord Canterville warns Mr. Otis about the ghost by telling him of its existence. In addition, Lord Canterville tells Mr. Otis about his family's experience of living at Canterville...
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The Canterville Ghost
There is a certain timelessness to Oscar Wilde's 1887 story The Canterville Ghost. During both World War II and the so-called "British invasion," there was a sense among many in England that its...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mr. Otis, an American ambassador, purchases Canterville Castle, even though everyone tells him that it is haunted. His reasoning is that the United States has everything that money can buy, and if...
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The Canterville Ghost
The blood stain has been on the floor near the fireplace in the sitting room of Canterville Hall since the murder of Lady Eleanore de Canterville in 1575. Lady Eleanore was killed by her husband,...
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter Seven of the story, the Canterville ghost is buried in a "wonderfully impressive" ceremony at Canterville Chase. This about-turn in the treatment of the Canterville ghost illustrates an...
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Reference
In "The Canterville Ghost," the ghost make his second appearance in Chapter Three. In this instance, the ghost disturbs the family when he tries to wear his old suit of armour which is hanging on...
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The Canterville Ghost
Ultimately, this is a question of opinion. Different readers will determine different levels of effectiveness across those four items. For me, when I look at all four of those items listed, I...
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The Canterville Ghost
The story pokes fun at American pragmatism and republican (anti-aristocratic) sentiments, but in doing so also satirizes the British for being stuck in the past and ruled by traditions such as fear...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Garden of Death is featured in Chapter Five of "The Canterville Ghost," when the ghost tells Virginia Otis of his strong desire to leave Canterville Chase and to sleep forever. Though the...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville ghost develops a number of plans to avenge the indifference of the Otis family. In Chapter Three, for example, the ghost attempts to wear an antique suit of armour, an item which he...
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter Five of "The Canterville Ghost," Virginia and the ghost have a full and frank discussion about his life before death. The ghost reveals some shocking details, including the murder of his...
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The Canterville Ghost
This is an opinion question, so feel free to state any character from the story. The important part is adequately defending your answer. The explanation for your choice should be more in depth...
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The Canterville Ghost
The title of this story is justified because it really is a story about Sir Simon, the Canterville ghost. When the story begins, the reader thinks that this is a story about the Otis family and...
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The Canterville Ghost
Initially, the family avoid talking about the ghost because of the blood-stain in the library (in Chapter Two). Washington Otis removed it with Paragon Detergent but its continual reappearance...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mr. Otis completely humiliates Sir Simon by not being afraid of the ghost at all. Sir Simon takes pride in the fact that he has been scaring owners of the Canterville house for years and years....
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The Canterville Ghost
A main difference between Lord Canterville and Mr. Otis is that Lord Canterville, who is English, takes tradition very seriously, while Mr. Otis, an American, does not. For example, Lord...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mrs. Umney, the housekeeper at Canterville Chase, explains the origin of the bloodstain that Mrs. Otis spies on the floor of the library near the fireplace. Mrs. Umney says that the blood stain...
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The Canterville Ghost
Virginia Otis takes the ghost of Sir Simon to the "Garden of Death." In part five of the story, Virginia Otis is speaking with Sir Simon. He explains to her that he is so very tired and wants to...
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter Two of "The Canterville Ghost," Mr Otis is disturbed by the sound of the ghost rattling his chains in the early hours of the morning. In response, Mr Otis offers the ghost some oil...
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The Canterville Ghost
The ghost's initial attempt to frighten the Otis family is a disaster. Instead of being scared, Mr. Otis instead advises him to oil his clunky, rusty chains and manacles. He gives the ghost some...
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The Canterville Ghost
Canterville Chase is indeed haunted, as we learn in the opening chapter of "The Canterville Ghost." The former resident of the house, Lord Canterville, for example, tells us that his great-aunt,...
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The Canterville Ghost
I hope that it is okay to compare and contrast three characters. I would like compare and contrast Virginia Otis and the Otis twins. For the sake of simplicity though, I am going to refer to the...
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The Canterville Ghost
I believe that this question is asking about the ghost's first full appearance in the story. That occurs in Part Two. The Otis family has already attempted to remove the bloodstain, which of...
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The Canterville Ghost
At several points in "The Canterville Ghost," Wilde satirises American behaviour and the American way of life. In the opening lines of the story, for instance, the narrator refers to the Otis's...
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter Six, when Virginia does not come down for tea, Mrs. Otis isn't initially concerned. She thinks that her daughter is in the garden, gathering flowers for the dinner-table. However, when...
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The Canterville Ghost
The characters of Hiram Otis and Lord Canterville appear very different in "The Canterville Ghost," but, looking closer, we can see a number of similarities. First of all, both men are very firm in...
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The Canterville Ghost
At the beginning of the story, the Otis family denies the ghost's existence. In Chapter Two, however, the ghost makes his first appearance and Mr Otis reacts to him in a rather humorous way: he...
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The Canterville Ghost
In "The Canterville Ghost," the Cantervilles, who are British lords, believe in the ghost that haunts their estate as part of their storied history. Lord Canterville tells the American Minister...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville ghost does not make any plans to frighten Virginia because she is the only member of the family who does not humiliate or belittle him. In Chapter Three, for example, it is noted...
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The Canterville Ghost
The ghost of Sir Simon was not scary to the Otis family in the slightest. The first indication that readers have of the Otis family's disregard for the ghost is the fact that they bought the...
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The Canterville Ghost
Wilde most aptly and humorously portrays these reversals by depicting the poor Canterville ghost's dilemma in his encounters with the Otis family. The ghost, obviously supremely confident of his...