Andrew Clarendon
eNotes Educator
Achievements
2
Educator Level
37
Answers Posted
5
Answers Bonused
About
Earned Badges
-
eNotes Educator
This badge is awarded to all eNotes Educators. Only official Educators can answer students' questions on our site. Educators are teachers, professional researchers, and scholars who apply to our...
Recent Activity
-
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
I think that your assertion that the dove is a sympathetic symbol is an assumption. Dante draws from plenty of classical sources; in classical myth the dove is associated with Venus (eros... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
The point of view in this speech is certainly that of a detached philosopher, but the main point is that it is the view of a cynic, a position perfectly in keeping with Jaques' other... -
Answered a Question in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Stanza 113 provides a good example. Harold (in soliloquy, so to speak) discusses how he has not "loved the world, nor the world [him]." The reason is that he has refused to bow to... -
Answered a Question in Literature
One my favorites from myth is Theseus. Unlike a Hercules who is little brain and at times too much brawn, Theseus is both a thinker and a fighter. Although, as is almost always the... -
Answered a Question in The Solitary Reaper
This poem opens with Wordsworth describing how a solitary girl from the Highlands of Scotland is singing a beautiful song while she is reaping grain. Although she is just a common girl out in... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
There are two basic ways. During Shakespeare's life, anyone who could get a handwritten copy of a play could print it. There were no copyright laws at the time,... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
This is from the song that opens Act 4, scene 3 of The Winter's Tale. The rogue Autolycus is singing about how, as the first response noted, it is springtime, the sweetest time of the... -
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
This "wise lady" is Beatrice, who the Pilgrim will meet at the end of the Purgatorio and is to be his guide through most of the Paradiso. Beatrice represents divine wisdom, revelation, and... -
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
In Canto 3, Charon gives two reasons why the Pilgrim shouldn't get into his boat. First, the Pilgrim is alive, and Charon shows that he perceives this when he calls him "the living man" in... -
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
This is from Inferno, Canto 33, line 49. Count Ugolino is telling the Pilgrim about how he and his sons (or grandsons) were locked up in a tower and left to starve to death. Right... -
Answered a Question in Literature
One of the most important aspects of English Romantic poetry is the opening up of subject matter to other times and people. While 18th cent. poets (e.g., Pope, Swift, Johnson) focused on... -
Answered a Question in Aeneid
The first thing to keep in mind is that the two epics are written from two opposing points of view: the victorious Greeks (for Homer) and the defeated Trojans (Virgil) who are destined to become... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
I would add that when Shakespeare got started in the London theater scene, he was trying to make money and elevate his family. The acting and, more importantly, providing plays for the Lord... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
In a word, starvation. First, Eurylochus demands they stop at Thrinacia, where the cattle of the sun god graze. After landing, for an entire month the winds blow in such a fashion to... -
Answered a Question in The Winter's Tale
This is Hermione's speech at her trial for adultery. In the first several lines (3.2.22-28), she says that because it is her word against Leontes', then there is no point in saying "Not... -
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
As the e-notes study guide notes, these mythological avengers of great crimes represent a a guilty conscience. It is signifcant that they shout out to Medusa to come up and turn the... -
Answered a Question in The Divine Comedy
Since the poem is such a multi-faceted work, there are several answers to this question. First, as a great artist, Dante reflects the ideas, concerns, and attitudes of his time; The Divine... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
To answer your first question about Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking: Sleep, or the lack of sleep, is a major motif in the play. For example, after Macbeth kills Duncan, he tells Lady Macbeth:...