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Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
It's difficult to be absolutely specific about answering this question, because we're not 100% sure of the dates Shakespeare's plays were written and first performed. We do know that... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
Here's the beginning of the poem [still under copyright]: Dear Mum While you were out A cup went and broke itself, A crack appeared in the blue vase Your great-great grandad Brought back ...... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Whenever you're talking religion in Lord of the Flies, you're talking about Simon. And the key chapter for religious imagery is the one in which he climbs the mountain to discover that the beast is... -
Answered a Question in Othello
There are examples everywhere in the play - almost too many to list. Here are three, all from the first scene, Act One, Scene One: First, one from the end of the scene. Here's Iago talking about... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
It depends how you read the play, of course. It's a great play, this one, and so it sort of pushes back at simple questions. I'll show you what I mean. At the start of the play, Oedipus has it... -
Answered a Question in Porphyria's Lover
Good question. The first thing to say is that the two poems are both dramatic monologues, a style which is specifically associated with the Victorian era of English Literature - and more... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
In lots of ways, I would argue. Shakespeare's plays are often talked about as being universal, because, though they are from 400 years ago, they deal with themes and problems that come up in... -
Answered a Question in Eve Merriam
Well, here's the poem. Let's find out: Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Good one. It's right at the very end of the book, and therefore is a moment that isn't much commented on - despite the fact that it's actually (I think, at least) very important for any essay... -
Answered a Question in King Lear
Good question. It's a passage that puzzles a lot of readers. Here it is: LEAR We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The three drunkards are really very rude to the old man. He greets them very politely, but one of the drunkards responded rudely and asked him why he was still alive - as he was so old, he should... -
Answered a Question in The Emperor's New Clothes
That depends exactly what you mean. If you mean what is the climactic point of the story (in a more strictly literary sense of 'climax') then that's might vary depending on how you interpret the... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Here's the part of the play you should be looking at. Duncan has just been told that the treacherous Thane of Cawdor repented on his death bed, and he is commenting regretfully on Cawdor's... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
What an odd question! Why on earth could you want to know this? Shakespeare could hardly avoid using a word without vowels, as we use them all the time, every day. Nearly all of them (perhaps all... -
Answered a Question in Othello
And then for her To win the Moor, were't to renounce his baptism, All seals and symbols of redeemed sin... (2.3.342-44) There's Iago, in Act 2, Scene 3, telling us that Othello has indeed been... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
In one of the sources for Shakespeare's play, Ansaldo, the equivalent figure to Antonio is the godfather of the young man trying to wed the heiress: a generation older. Yet the text, other than... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
Bad news on this one is that, like most questions about Shakespeare's biography, we don't have any hard and fast answers. All we have are the very, very basics of his life story. So we do know that... -
Answered a Question in As You Like It
Well, there are lots. And the play, like all of Shakespeare's plays, complicates the issue rather than providing a one-word, easy answer. I think the best way of answering yoru question is to focus... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Good question! It's quite a famous quote this one, and like so many other "big quotes" in Shakespeare, I'm always surprised at how few people who quote it actually know what it means! Here's the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Yes - I think the play makes pretty clear that he does. Firstly, Polonius and Laertes have both heard that Hamlet has been chasing after Ophelia and counsel her to avoid his love - as he, as the... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Roger's an interesting character, whom Golding uses to represent (in a rather unequivocal way) the 'darkness of man's heart' which the novel is so interested in. When first introduced, he's marked... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Casca's been out running around in the storm, which, as he tells Cicero, is one of the scariest things he's ever encountered: ...never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
I'd argue that Golding's presentation of the natural world and the island in this novel is always cleverly balanced between presenting a hot, sumptuous, Edenic paradise - and somewhere that... -
Answered a Question in The Tempest
What a specific question! Gonzalo first of all is seen arguing with the Boatswain who is definitely trying to cope with the storm. GONZ: Nay, good, be patient. BOATS: When the sea is.... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Brutus' reaction to Cassius' death is a bit of a puzzle. He starts off first of all citing the abstract significance of his friend's death in very rhetorical, formal terms: BRUTUS: O Julius... -
Answered a Question in The Tempest
It undoubtedly is a central concern of the play. Prospero, of course, as Duke of Milan, was usurped by his brother Antonio long before the play began - which is how he got to the island in the... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Yes, it's an odd little conversation - the only time Romeo's parents really appear in the play before his death! The Montagues are a lot less important than the Capulets to Shakespeare's design.... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Here's the bit from the novel you need: ... a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. “Hi!” it said. “Wait a minute!” The... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
The device is 'personification', which is a form of metaphor. What personification does is to give human qualities or attributes to something that isn't strictly a human. So here, the abstract noun... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Well, there is some beautiful poetry. And there is - well, one message that might be worth committing to memory, "all that glisters is not gold", a moral about both not judging a book by its cover,... -
Answered a Question in Much Ado About Nothing
The answer to both of your questions is that it's up to how you interpret. Hero doesn't give us a clear reason for why she forgives Claudio: in fact, the whole forgiveness thing is slightly vague... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
The scary thing about Lord Capulet is that it isn't, at all, a gradual change. At the very start of the play, he's putting across that he's a jovial, avuncular old father, who puts his daughter's... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
I presume she must have had a mother at some point - or how could she be alive? But we never hear about her mother in the play - she's never mentioned once. We do, however, obviously know about... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Ralph, early in the novel, makes more of a concession to the idea of enjoying the paradisical island than he is to do later on: “Now we come to the most important thing. I’ve been thinking. I was... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
He hardly has one. He's one of Orsino's servants, and he first appears having come back from Olivia's, to tell Orsino that she's not interested in him: So please my lord, I might not be admitted;... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
It's a fascinating title which provokes several questions. Is the whole play a dream? Is any part of it supposed to be read as a dream? Who is doing the dreaming? Many productions and critics,... -
Answered a Question in An Inspector Calls
Well, they don't really. Birling is a strong traditional, conservative, British capitalist, and he has a lot in common with Margaret Thatcher, who believed there was no such thing as society. J. B.... -
Answered a Question in Annabel Lee
That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. There you have it. Stanza one. Annabel Lee... -
Answered a Question in Ben Jonson
I'm not quite sure. It's an odd mix of the absolutely colloquial and personal, and a slightly arch, grander style. The first four lines, addressing the son are particularly colloquial: Farewell,... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck, in fact, has spawned an adjective all of his own "puckish". And if you look at that word a little, and think about what it might mean, or what its synonyms might be, you get a very clear idea... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
For this one, you need to look at what they say to Banquo in Act 1, Scene 3: Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. Though Banquo will never be king himself, he will "beget" (the word which... -
Answered a Question in Hedda Gabler
This one used to be a massive problem in Ibsen criticism and everyone went a bit crazy over it. It has since, you'll been glad to hear, been largely settled. Vine leaves in the hair is... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
DEMETRIUS: These things seem small and undistinguishable, Like far-off mountains turned into clouds. HERMIA: Methinks I see these things with parted eye, When every thing seems double. HELENA: So... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Portia's father has insisted that all suitors to her must choose one of the caskets, gold, silver or lead. If they find her picture inside, they get to marry her. If they don't find her picture,... -
Answered a Question in Othello
Quite a lot of the play takes place at night. The play begins at night, with Iago and Roderigo (Act 1, Scene 1) waking up Brabantio to tell him that his daughter has escaped with Othello - and, of... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Right at the very start of the novel, three of the boys go on a mission (after the first assembly) to find out whether the island actually is an island. And they find out that it is - and then... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Tybalt is a Capulet, Juliet's cousin and Capulet's nephew. So it's a fair assumption that his friends will be the Capulet clan. But the text never actually says who's with him! You might think... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
It's an unexpected twist in the play. Juliet thought she had a whole day (i.e. Wednesday) to get ready for the wedding (today is Tuesday, and the wedding is set for Thursday). But Capulet gives... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Well, it relies on a magic potion, probably of the Friar's own making. Here's what he says: Go home, be merry, give consent To marry Paris. Wednesday is to-morrow. To-morrow night look that thou... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Remember that Capulet has just - for no apparent reason - agreed to let Paris marry Juliet, and then set the date for the wedding on Thursday: he does this on Monday. This is Paris, with Friar...
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