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The Canterville Ghost
Before the minister, Mr. Hiram B. Otis, buys Canterville Chase, Lord Canterville warns him that the house is haunted. Indeed, although he is anxious to sell the house, Lord Canterville goes into...
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The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" revolves around the sale of an old British estate known as Canterville Chase to an American minister who is marked by his skepticism. From the start, Horace B....
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The Canterville Ghost
"The Canterville Ghost" centers around the time that the Otis family spends living in the Canterville mansion. The house is haunted by the ghost of Sir Simon, and readers will learn that two...
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The Canterville Ghost
When Mr. Otis, the American Minister, gives the ghost a bottle of lubricant to oil his chains, the ghost's reaction is one of deep chagrin. He recalls all the aristocrats and servants he has...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville ghost, we learn, has a "cruel, wrinkled mouth," but when Virginia finds him alone and desolate in the Tapestry Chamber, he simply looks sad and forlorn. He appears to have the...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mrs. Umney has been the housekeeper at Canterville Hall for many years, and her words and actions show she takes the story of the ghost haunting the castle very seriously. She tells the Otises that...
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The Canterville Ghost
"The Canterville Ghost" is a short story that teaches an important lesson beneath what seems at first to be merely a funny tale. In the story, the typical ghost story is turned upside down. Instead...
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The Canterville Ghost
First, I'd like to highly recommend you read the ending of the story yourself—it's a charming work, and the best of Oscar Wilde is on display in its pages. At the end of "The Canterville Ghost,"...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville ghost describes the Garden of Death to Virginia as follows: There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings...
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The Canterville Ghost
If we begin first with the members of the Otis family, there are six in all. Firstly, there is Mr. Hiram Otis, the head of the family, who is a very practical and outspoken man. Next is his wife,...
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The Canterville Ghost
In "The Canterville Ghost," the blood-stain in the library has a long history. According to the housekeeper, Mrs Umney, the blood-stain has existed since 1575 when the then-Lord Canterville, Sir...
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The Canterville Ghost
The high-spirited American twins play quite a few tricks on the poor Canterville ghost, who can't cope with the Yankee spirit of can-do practicality that invades his ancestral English home with the...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville ghost tries to salvage his reputation by adopting increasingly fantastic ghostly personas aimed at scaring the living daylights out of the Otis family. He decides that he will make...
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The Canterville Ghost
Wilde uses a variety of techniques to indicate how American the Otis family is. He, for example, uses repetition by consistently referring to Mr. Otis as "the American Minister" or, alternatively,...
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The Canterville Ghost
While the Canterville ghost fails to frighten the Otis family, he has enjoyed far greater successes during his long career. In the opening chapter of the story, for instance, Lord Canterville talks...
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The Canterville Ghost
I am going to assume that you mean the ghost's first appearance to the Otis family. The ghost has been active for about 300 years and has appeared in various forms in order to affect the right...
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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
In Chapter Five of "The Canterville Ghost," the ghost meets Virginia in the Tapestry Chamber and asks her to pray for him. He asks this because he wants to enter the Garden of Death so that he can...
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The Canterville Ghost
Washington Otis is the oldest Otis son. His role in the story is not large, but he represents American practicality and know-how. He is the one who uses Pinkerton's Champion Stain Remover and...
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The Canterville Ghost
One of the basic conflicts in The Canterville Ghost is the collision between modernity and antiquity. The ghost represents the remnants of the past. The manner in which Sir Simon would easily...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mrs Otis's son is called Washington, a name that he resents because it was inspired by patriotism. In the story, he is physically described as a "fair-haired" and "rather good-looking young man"...
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The Canterville Ghost
When the story first begins, Lord Canterville tells Mr. Otis about the presence of Sir Simon's ghost. Mr. Otis flatly denies the possibility as a stereotypical, overly confident American. Mr. Otis...
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The Canterville Ghost
The themes of love and death are intertwined in "The Canterville Ghost." Beneath the surface comedy of role reversal, in which the American Otis family frightens the ghost and not vice versa, lurks...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mr. and Mrs. Otis are both robust, all-American figures. We learn that Mrs. Otis has a fine "constitution" and is the picture of health. Neither she nor Mr. Otis initially believe in ghosts and...
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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
In Chapter Five of "The Canterville Ghost," Virginia finds the ghost looking very depressed in the Tapestry Chamber. After a brief conversation, she learns that the ghost is very tired because he...
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The Canterville Ghost
"The Canterville Ghost" has all of the elements of a traditional ghost story: it is set in Canterville Chase, a haunted mansion, has its share of supernatural phenomena, like the blood-stain on the...
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The Canterville Ghost
From their arrival at Canterville Chase, the Otis family are reluctant to talk about the ghost. In short, they do not believe in the supernatural because they are advocates of science and reason,...
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter Six of "The Canterville Ghost," one of the twins notices that the withered almond tree has suddenly started to blossom. This event happens shortly after Virginia returns to her family...
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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
The Canterville Ghost first decides to reapply the blood stain that the Otis family has removed from the carpet. This happens three times, and then the ghost appears in chains to menace Mr. Otis....
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The Canterville Ghost
"The Canterville Ghost" is a hilarious short story written by Oscar Wilde. It is about the American Otis family and their recent move into a haunted mansion. The mansion is haunted by Sir Simon's...
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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
Since his death in 1584, the ghost has terrorised countless residents of Canterville Chase and he is fiercely proud of his long and varied career. Encountering the Canterville ghost has so...
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The Canterville Ghost
In "The Canterville Ghost," the ghost makes his first appearance to the Otis family in Chapter Two. Every member of the family is in bed after a busy day of driving and, around 1 a.m., Mr Otis is...
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The Canterville Ghost
Sir Simon's first meeting with Mr. Otis is hilarious. It's hilarious, because Mr. Otis's response is completely unexpected. The encounter starts off spooky enough. It is late at night, and...
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The Canterville Ghost
Mr. Otis says that under the English laws of "mortmain" or perpetual ownership, the jewels are actually the property of Lord Canterville, even though Mr. Otis has purchased Canterville Hall. Mr....
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The Canterville Ghost
The characters in Oscar Wilde’s story The Canterville Ghost include Mr. Hiram B. Otis, “the American Minister,” whose family moves into Canterville Chase, his wife, teenage daughter Virginia, son...
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The Canterville Ghost
In Chapter 3 of "The Canterville Ghost," the ghost decides to wear a suit of armour and there are a number of reasons behind this choice. First of all, to put this scene into context, the ghost...
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The Canterville Ghost
In "The Canterville Ghost," Virginia Otis is very different from the other members of her family in two ways. First of all, she does not play tricks on the ghost, nor does she tease him in the same...
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The Canterville Ghost
Virginia in "The Canterville Ghost" is empathic, compassionate, active, courageous, gentle and pure. While her parents take a practical approach to the Ghost, scrubbing out the blood stains he...
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The Canterville Ghost
First off, some basic details about Virginia. She is the daughter of the Otis family. She's obviously a female. She has blue eyes and is fifteen years old. She must be quite beautiful, because...
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The Canterville Ghost
At the end of Chapter Five, Virginia helps the ghost to rest eternally in the Garden of Death. She does this by accompanying him through a gap in the wall of the Tapestry Chamber and into the...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost, otherwise known as Sir Simon, planned to take his revenge on the Otis family is the standard ghostly fashion. He plans to scare them out of his house. Many, many years ago,...
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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville ghost did really kill his wife. When the sweet Virginia asks him about it, he says: 'Well, I quite admit it,' said the ghost, 'but my wife was not very nice, you know, and she...
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The Canterville Ghost
A chase is a hunting or game preserve. Canterville Hall or Canterville Chase is called a chase because it was once, and probably still is, a place where upper-class people would gather to hunt. It...
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The Canterville Ghost
At the beginning of Chapter One of "The Canterville Ghost," Lord Canterville makes it very clear to Mr Otis that the property is haunted. Despite his warnings, Mr Otis is more than happy to buy the...
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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
Mr. Hiram Otis is the father of the American family that rents Canterville Hall in England. Like the rest of his family, he is completely American. He definitely does not believe in ghosts, and...
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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...
