Patricia Rhodes

Soon after Maxim and the narrator meet, he comments on her Christian name, saying that it is 'lovely and unusual'. She says that the name was given by her father, who was an artist, and that he was...

There are four main techniques used in satire: exaggeration reversal incongruity parody If you look for these, you will see the satire more clearly. For example: there are many examples of...

Do you mean within this line only, or in Helena's speech which precedes it? If this line: what Helena means is that the way Hermia and the boys are mocking her (as she thinks) is partly her...

Macbeth is saying that now that he is king, he finds that it is more difficult to maintain his kingship than he imagined it would be: "To be thus is nothing;/But to be safely thus.--". Now...

Simply that seeing as he has put his faith in the witches, and he has become Thane of Cawdor 'without his stir' as he himself says, there is absolutely no reason to suppose that the kingship will...

Their names are Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia and Helena. At the start of the play Hermia is betrothed to Demetrius but in love with Lysander, who returns her love. Helena is in love with Demetrius,...