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Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Simon is epileptic: the first thing that happens to him in the whole novel is that he falls to the floor in a fit: “He’s always throwing a faint,”said Merridew. “He did in Gib.; and Addis; and at... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
At first, Ralph certainly does place importance on having fun: right at the start of the first assembly, he tells the boys: “While we’re waiting we can have a good time on this island.” He... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Firstly, and mainly, he does it by persuasion. Have a look at Act 1, Scene 2, and look at the speeches Cassius makes to Brutus: he makes arguments against Caesar, based on Caesar's ambition, the... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
It's one of those Shakespeare speeches, I think, like "To be or not to be", where everyone knows the first line or two lines, and then very little about what comes next. Portia is talking about... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Pompey, or Pompey the Great, was a well known military leader of Rome. He never appears in Shakespeare's play, as he's just been defeated by Julius Caesar in battle. So he's not really very... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
I actually think part of the scariness and brilliance of "Romeo and Juliet" is that there absolutely could be an alternative ending where it all ends happily. It's certainly true that in the two... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Which aren't? Though the novel is now over 50 years old (published in 1954), it seems to me as timely as it ever did. It explores several themes pertinent to our society today, but also several... -
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
Dante puts the sodomites at the bottom of the seventh circle of hell. That's bad. Within the seventh circle, there are three rings. In ring number 1, Dante puts people who killed for their own... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Golding's island, I would have said, is presented as a natural paradise, with extreme weather conditions, but, most significantly of all, it is regularly seen through the eyes of the boys... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Great question! I think it allows Golding to freely show us the thoughts pounding through Ralph's distracted brain. We've seen him get more and more cloudy in his own head (that famous quote about... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
I don't think so, no. A utopia is a society in which everyone is happy, everything goes wonderfully, everything is fair - a dream world! A dystopia is the opposite: a society with awful conditions,... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
He doesn't, actually. He says "and you, Brutus?", sometimes read as meaning "even you, Brutus?", or perhaps "and you, as well, Brutus?". And he says it in Latin. The one moment in this Roman play... -
Answered a Question in Song: To Celia
But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. Jove's nectar makes one immortal. But Jonson's speaker would rather have Celia's nectar to ensure immortality. I sent thee, late, a... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
It's thought up by the man who runs the Tabard Inn, in Southwark, where the pilgrims meet, who is usually referred to as the "Host". He talks to the pilgrims, about to set off for Canterbury, and... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
I think Jack's key contribution to the survival of the boys is to provide food, though you could maybe also argue that he is the one who best understands the need for some sort of protection.... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
All our service In every point twice done and then done double Were poor and single business to contend Against those honours deep and broad wherewith Your majesty loads our house... All Lady M... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Ralph is fair-haired, an Everyman. He can talk to all of the other boys and they all naturally like him. He's an easy choice, and he also comes with the advantage of being associated with the conch... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Right at the start of the novel, the boys elect Ralph as chief. Golding makes clear that this is a slightly unexpected decision: Jack started to protest but the clamor changed from the general... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Jack, Golding makes very clear right from the start, is a charismatic, authoritative and natural leader. Here's Piggy's reaction to the first few lines Jack speaks: Piggy asked no names. He was... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
It's the moment where Shakespeare has maximum fun with all the trouble he's set up with the lovers. Firstly you get Puck recapping what's happened with Titania and Bottom, and how he has turned... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Most people try and argue that the first half of Romeo and Juliet is a rising action leading up to the death of Mercutio. I actually don't think this is at all logical, as part of the point is that... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste... -
Answered a Question in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
All of the things you say are correct, and in Gray's poem. Mainly, first and foremost, it's because they are equal in death: Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
No, in a word. The plague is brought about by Oedipus' own presence, and he doesn't realise it. The process of cleansing the city from the plague, of removing the dirt which ruins Thebes, is the... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
Thebes is suffering from a plague, we hear right at the very start of the play. People are suffering, people are dying, women's children are dying. Oedipus is the king of Thebes. It is his duty to... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well! Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you; For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom: it is still her use, To let the wretched man... -
Answered a Question in Dulce et Decorum Est
The mood is unremittingly bitter, bleak, harsh and unpleasant, showing in viscerally thick verbal detail the absolute horror endured by the men who fought in World War 1. Within that, though, I... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
It's fascinating sometimes to look at the journey of a minor character or pair of characters through the novel. I'm not sure Samneric are representative of any particular type of person in... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Great question. There are three main properties to the ingredients: The first witch puts in ingredients which are hallucinogenic, creating (presumably) the apparitions which appear to... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
I think this bit is great. You expect some sort of huge romantic moment when Romeo and Juliet finally meet at the balcony. Actually, Juliet is terrified: What man art thou that, thus bescreen'd in... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
I'd say, without any ambiguity, that it is Macbeth himself. He lifts up the knife and plunges it into Duncan, and he does it because he wants to be king. There are other factors that... -
Answered a Question in Othello
At the start, Brabantio is really not very pleased to be roused from his bed, and even less pleased to see Roderigo. Brabantio asks who is calling to him, and here's what happens: RODERIGO: My name... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth doesn't put on his armour before battle because the witches have told him that "none of woman born" can harm him. He therefore thinks he is invincible - and why would he need armour? ... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
It depends precisely what you mean. An obituary is a piece of writing which sums up someone's life after their death, though usually it is written with an entirely positive spin. Though, obviously,... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hermia comes up first. And she has some real guts to, when she's practically on trial and threatened with death anyway, to openly suggest in front of the Duke that she might actually refuse to wed... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Percival Weyms Madison is quite an important character in the novel, as he, perhaps more than anyone else, is a clear yardstick for how far the boys have descended into savagery. It takes a while... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Great question. It's one of the things that you can either see as Shakespeare being a bit lazy, or as one of the things that really complicates the play. Firstly, Demetrius does not love Helena at... -
Answered a Question in Because I could not stop for Death—
The poem's written in ballad meter, alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, rhyming ABAB. I'll show you what I mean. An iamb is a weak beat followed by a strong beat (de DUM).... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Simply put, I think the city represents the real world of pragmatism, and the forest a dream world of escapism and transformation. What we see of Athens, the city, in the first scene is a pretty... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Well, I think a foil can also be someone similar to the main character in certain ways, that is, in some key way, a reflection of them. Otherwise, for example, the Prince would be a good foil... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Jack has, throughout, been slamming his knife into trees in a threat of violence. Yet the moment when the piglet actually appears demands from Jack actual violence rather than just threatened... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
"Lordynges," quod he, "in chirches whan I preche, I peyne me to han an hauteyn speche, And rynge it out as round as gooth a belle, For I kan al by rote that I telle. My theme is... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
I'm afraid this one really gets the standard Shakespeare answer: we just don't know. Shakespeare didn't leave us any solid information about why he wrote certain plays or what occasions they were... -
Answered a Question in Twentieth Century British Drama
I can do "English Verse Drama in the 20th Century" in four words: it didn't catch on. Writers in English tend constantly to hark back to Shakespeare. And early in the 20th century, everyone was... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Brutus, like Caesar, is an extremely arrogant and self-regarding man with a cast-iron belief in his own brilliance and his own ability. Like Caesar, he refers to himself in the third person ("When... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Here's the bit from the novel you need: “I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him...I tell you... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The Reeve, according to the General Prologue, is a slender and choleric man, with a very close-shaved beard and hair cut round by his ears: The REVE was a sclendre colerik man. His berd was... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Straight after Caesar has died, there's a bit of a problem - it becomes immediately clear that no-one has really thought about exactly what to do next. Cinna is the first to speak, and what he... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
It's a great question, and one of the biggest problems in the play. Why does Macbeth kill Duncan when Duncan has two sons who would legally just succeed their father's throne? It doesn't make any... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
The beast, of course, which doesn't exist, changes in the boys' imaginations. In Chapter 2, it begins as a "snake thing": Ralph laughed... The small boy twisted further into himself. “Tell us...
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