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Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The tale-telling contest is the brainchild of the man, usually referred to as the "Host," who runs the Tabard Inn in Southwark where the pilgrims meet. The Host's real name is Harry Bailey.... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
You need the first few lines of the whole Canterbury Tales for this - this is an excerpted chunk from the General Prologue: Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The word "greed" doesn't appear in the play itself: though that it's certainly not irrelevant to "Macbeth" and its themes. More usually critics and scholars talk about the theme of ambition in the... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Ralph actually weeps for three things in the final chapter of the novel: And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the... -
Answered a Question in Much Ado About Nothing
Because Shakespeare doesn't believe in sticking rigidly to "genre". This is the man who wrote a comedy about a Jew, just like Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta", but filled his Jewish character with... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
I think it just depends on how you read the text. I could make an argument to you either way. And I will. Firstly, I think Macbeth shows real wavering doubts about doing the murder. He says, just... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Remember that Romeo and Juliet were only married that day, and have yet to have their wedding night together. So the reason Romeo and Juliet need to see each other, beyond to be together in the... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
In a word, no. Samneric give him meat and tell him the Chief's plans. And there's no reason for those plans: “They hate you, Ralph. They’re going to do you.” “They’re going to hunt you tomorrow.”... -
Answered a Question in Othello
The text doesn't actually tell us. We know that Iago wounds Cassio in the leg from behind, when Roderigo fails to kill him: ROD: I know his gait; 'tis he. Villain, thou diest! CASSIO: That thrust... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
I think what your question is driving at is the comparison between the atrocities the boys commit on the island, and the continuing atrocities of war outside the world which surrounds them. We know... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
“We’ll take you off. How many of you are there?” Ralph shook his head. The officer looked past him to the group of painted boys. “Who’s boss here?” “I am,” said Ralph loudly. A little boy who wore... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Yes. I think the denouement pulls an amazing trick. The reader has completely accepted Ralph, Jack and the boys as adults: you forget how young they are. And the way the ending makes its impact is... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
The points you make are all valid. But I don't think you're reading the question carefully enough (and believe me, reading the question well is the hallmark of the A grade student!). You're being... -
Answered a Question in The Alchemist
"The Alchemist" by Ben Jonson is, I think, one of the most perfect comedies ever written. Kenneth Tynan, the veteran theatre critic, described is as "good episodic play ...bead after bead, the... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Well, the mood on the streets is riotous. Caesar has returned from a triumph against Pompey. The commoners are out on the streets celebrating his triumph. Yet he is so popular with the people that... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Bond/bound/binding - all key words and key concepts in "The Merchant of Venice". And by comparing Bassanio's double bond, to Portia and Antonio, you draw out the unusual financial/emotional natures... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
In Act 1, Scene 2, Viola sees herself in what the Captain describes of Olivia: A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her In the protection of his... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
He isn't in the play long, is he? But I think you can find some good material on him. Read the scenes he's in in Act 1 (particularly Act 1, Scene 2), and the fact that he is naturally trusting of... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
First point - and the most important - is that Claudius admits that he is guilty of Old Hamlet's murder. Though we are now fairly sure (just like Hamlet) that the ghost was telling the truth,... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
"You are sick of self-love", Olivia tells Malvolio, "and taste with a distempered appetite". And he is: he genuinely thinks he is fantastic. So before I tell you the things that Malvolio fancies... -
Answered a Question in My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began, So is it now I am a man, So be it when I shall... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
That's a good question. It certainly doesn't have "reality" in the traditional sense, but like the dagger which Macbeth sees on the way to murdering Duncan, the question is whether Macbeth has... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Romeo gives clear instructions to the Nurse to pass on to Juliet; Bid her devise some means to come to shrift This afternoon; And there she shall at Friar Laurence’ cell Be shriv'd and married.... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Friar Laurence addresses the audience, and tells them about what he has to do that morning: I must up-fill this osier cage of ours With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. Friar Laurence... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Well, Ralph and Piggy reiterate the main reason for the fire's importance throughout the novel. Here's Ralph speaking in Chapter 2 about the importance of keeping a signal fire going: “There’s... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet and Horatio are looking at the skulls which the gravedigger is turfing out as he digs Ophelia's grave (though at this stage, neither Hamlet nor Horatio know that the grave is for Ophelia).... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
It's part of an argument Piggy makes about being rational and logical on the island. Piggy is always excellent at working things out, and he is basically arguing that you can't work with imaginary... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
Hir coverchiefs ful fyne weren of ground; I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound That on a sonday weren upon hir heed. The Wife of Bath is an expert cloth-maker, the text tells us, better even... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Simon's death comes at the hands of the other boys, who think they are killing a beast. Of course, the Lord of the Flies is the beast, personified in Simon's mind: it is the "darkness in man's... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
I'm not sure it foreshadows Brutus' death, as such, but it is certainly associated with it: at least, in Brutus' mind. Shortly before Brutus' suicide, he openly admits that it is partly to do with... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Like most of Ralph's other good ideas, it actually comes from Piggy. Ralph fishes it out of the water in the first chapter, towards the start, and Piggy immediately is the one who knows what it is... -
Answered a Question in A Doll's House
"A Doll's House" (actually, in the Norweigan it's apparently just titled "Dollhouse") is a really good title for the play, as there are lots of ways you can read it into what happens in... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
The two are very similar, and I suppose they could essentially be considered to be the same thing. But as genres, there is a sort of difference. That is, a soliloquy can be thought of as a dramatic... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Just before Brutus and Cassius have their little conversation aside, Brutus has asked what the men are doing in his orchard at night - what is it, he asks, rather sardonically, that is keeping them... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Right at the start of the novel, when the other boys start to appear, Piggy recognises that he might have an ally in Ralph: as the choir, led by Jack, appear: Piggy asked no names. He was... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Friendship is hugely important in "Julius Caesar", not least as an oil which can be used to slick along political manipulation. Yet I'm not too sure how "real" the friendships in the play turn out... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Act 1, Scene 2 there's really a decision avoided, rather than decision made. Capulet tells Paris to wait two years before he thinks about letting him marry Juliet, and then says, instead that he... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
The play doesn't actually make it quite clear what Horatio's motives are. But he sees it, just like a historical Roman, as more noble to commit suicide. When Hamlet says Horatio, I am dead; Thou... -
Answered a Question in Richard III
DUCHESS. So many miseries have craz'd my voice That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.-- Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead? QUEEN MARGARET. Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet, Edward for... -
Answered a Question in A Doll's House
HELMER I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora - bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. NORA Thousands of women have done it.... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Simon's conflict is between what he has to say, and the way he expresses it. Simon understands the true nature of the boys' fear on the island, and the fact that the beast is not really a physical... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Yes. In fact, most of the keys to this very complex relationship comes in the "To be or not to be" scene, Act 3, Scene 1. Ophelia, remember, has been told by Polonius that she can't see Hamlet -... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
"Wisely, and slow, they stumble that run fast" says Friar Laurence to Romeo at the end of their first scene together. And he has a point. There are lots of instances of haste, and moments where... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
It's only a subtle mention that comes as one of Ralph's extended thought monologues. We know already that Ralph's father is in the navy: and that information plays out in the passage. Once,... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
There's a conspiracy theory right there! No-one really knows how Shakespeare died, but, as there's nothing in the civil and legal documents telling us it was a murder, it seems unlikely that he was... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
It's actually only mentioned very briefly, after Romeo's been banished. Juliet sends the Nurse to find Romeo, and sends the ring as a token of the fact that she does not think of Romeo, even... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
I'm not sure I could boil this play down to a single message! There are lots of ways you could look at the play as telling you something. There's quite a simple storyline, after all: Macbeth, a... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Put simply, they are in a cavern, moving around a cauldron and brewing some sort of hallucinogenic mixture: FIRST WITCH: Round about the cauldron go: In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad,... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
When Maria, in the drunk scene, comes up with the idea to make a plot against Malvolio, she tells Sirs Toby and Andrew that she will hide them somewhere where they can watch Malvolio letter, and,... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Simon is a sort of religious mystic, a prophet, and a figure for Christ in the novel. He is the only boy who realises, instinctively, that the beast is "only us", that it is the "darkness of man's...
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