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Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Titania is an extremely strong woman, more than prepared to stand up to her husband - and no matter what he threatens, she ain't going to give up the Indian boy: this is her talking to Oberon: Set... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Yeah - I think this makes sense. Jack and Piggy are opposite extremes: and mostly, you can set them against each other in a series of antitheses. Jack represents anarchy, Piggy civilisation; Jack... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Yes, it's an interesting question, and one to which we don't really have a solid answer. It seems to have been a part of Elizabethan and Jacobean stagecraft that, before the play itself, the story... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
I think that's actually a very challenging question. As I see it, there's an easy answer, and a difficult answer. The easy answer is that the conflict is whether or not the conspirators are going... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
It's one of my favourite moments in all of Shakespeare, though that's not its significance in any wider dramatic sense! After Caesar has been assassinated, the conspirators are bathing their arms... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Well, ominously, he starts without giving any reasons, but with a firm conclusion: It must be by his death The rest of the speech then works to justify that conclusion - that Caesar's death is... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Here's the bit from the novel you need: A knot of boys, making a great noise that he had not noticed, were heaving and pushing at a rock. As he turned, the base cracked and the whole mass toppled... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
1) LYSANDER Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted and... -
Answered a Question in Endgame
An "Endgame" in chess is when only two kings are left on the board. Neither can win or lose. All that happen is that they can endlessly move around, and around, and around, never putting each other... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Interesting question! Well, there are only a few brief mentions of her in the play. At the end of Act 2, Scene 1, Brutus agrees to tell her his "secret", and reveal to her the plan to kill Caesar.... -
Answered a Question in The Tempest
Prospero, who was the Duke of Milan, had become obsessed with magic, and was not really attending to his dukely duties. In fact, he had given them over to his brother, Antonio, as he tells... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
It's a war that Scotland (the country in which "Macbeth" is set, and of which Duncan is the king) is fighting against Norway. The battle is being fought in Fife, in Scotland, as the following... -
Answered a Question in Much Ado About Nothing
It's a key scene, I think, because it's the point at which the play seems to violently shift from comedy toward tragedy. It even opens with the sense that everything's already been wrapped up: DON... -
Answered a Question in To the Ladies
It's an interesting poem, I think. And it's theme is set out in its first couplet: WIFE and servant are the same, But only differ in the name... A wife and a servant are the same thing, Chudleigh... -
Answered a Question in Ozymandias
It's lines from Shelley's sonnet Ozymandias, and to make sense of it you need to put them in context. Here's the whole poem, with your lines in bold: I met a traveller from an antique land Who... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
I think the main connection is about the idea of democracy and fairness they represent. Ralph, as chief, represents an idea of democracy and fairness. It's significant, I think, that in the first... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
I'm not sure Hamlet gives us three clear reasons for evil in this speech. It's one main idea of how men can become evil - and lots of examples of that same idea. I'll paraphrase the speech for you... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Here's Portia, answering your question: I grant I am a woman, but withal A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife. I grant I am a woman, but withal A woman well reputed, Cato's daughter. Think you I... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Good question. There are two kinsmen of the Prince in the play, though this fact is very regularly overlooked in production. The two members of the royal family are Mercutio (no, he's not a... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
In the witches' second scene, moments before Macbeth's first entrance, they say "Peace! The charm's wound up", implying that they have cast some sort of spell. So before we even meet Macbeth,... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
There's two Oberon speeches to look at here, both of them to Puck, and both of them outlining what he's going to do. He's the first, from Act 3, Scene 2: Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye;... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
There's a few similes in this speech, I think. Here's the first two, in Demetrius' own words: But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,— But by some power it is,—my love to Hermia, Melted... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
Viola's loyalty is tremendous, I think, to Orsino. She is, from very early in their relationship, madly in love with him, but she chooses not to say anything - and she still agrees to carry out her... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
It's called pathetic fallacy. It's when a writer uses elements of the natural world (weather, nature, animals, and so on) to reflect what happens in the book. Golding uses the weather and the... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
That's quite a hard question. For my money, most of the paradoxes that spring up in the strange, disturbing final acts of this play revolve around Juliet's supposed death, and around a key... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Great question. To answer it, I'd take you back to the moment at which Piggy reveals his "name": “I don’t care what they call me,” he said confidentially, “so long as they don’t call me what they... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Parris is worried that the town is becoming dissatisfied with the execution of its citizens: particularly when those executed are "people [who] have great weight yet in the town" (Act Four). Parris... -
Answered a Question in The Winter's Tale
This would be a very long, indeed thesis-length, argument to make in full. But I think one of the many, many ways of interpreting this fascinating late Shakespeare play would be to argue that the... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Here's the bit of the novel you need, from Chapter 8, titled "Gift for the Darkness": Jack spoke loudly. “This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.” The silence accepted the gift and awed them. The... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
... you have rated me About my moneys, and my usances: Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me,—misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spet... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
Well, the whole play is structured around what, to its original audience, would be one colossal case of dramatic irony. Sophocles' audience would have already known the Oedipus story, and the very... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Here's a bit from Chapter 1, where Ralph has just been voted in as chief by the other boys: Ralph counted. “I’m chief then.” The circle of boys broke into applause. Even the choir applauded; and... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
This is the bit from the novel you need, from the end of the first chapter: Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander tells Hermia, in Act 1, Scene 1, that they're going to run off together to his aunt's house to get married. But to do so, they're going to go through the woods: A good persuasion;... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Here's the bit from the novel you're referring to: “Can’t they see? Can’t they understand? Without the smoke signal we’ll die here? Look at that!” A wave of heated air trembled above the ashes but... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
It depends what you mean by "fairies", really. "Fairies" might mean the band of fairies, ruled over by Oberon and Titania, but not the fairies Shakespeare specifically names: Oberon, Titania and... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
It's from Sonnet 18, and all it means is that sometimes the sun ("the eye of heaven") shines with too much heat. Here's the passage: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
I'm sorry to seem pedantic, but it's so important to be strict about this. Aristotle never wrote about tragic flaws. Hamartia is the Greek word usually mis-translated as "tragic flaw". It actually... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's characterisation is a complex thing: it's rarely as simple as a single answer. And, in fact, what emerges from this "balcony scene" (though, you'll notice, no balcony is ever... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
See below for links to Benvolio's character analysis, and a website which gives you every quote Benvolio ever says. If you want a single quote that sums up what Benvolio does in the play, I'd go... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
She's a sad character, really, I think. Her actual explanation comes at the very end of the soliloquy, and, like just about everything else in this play to do with love, it focusses on the eye as... -
Answered a Question in Othello
The play is set in Venice (Othello himself, as the play's proper title points out, is the "Moor of Venice") - though only the first part of the play takes place there. In Act 2 (Scene 1), the play... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Well, some people might argue that your question in itself is a bit of a paradox: surely all warriors that kill people are murderers! Whether they're evil or not is a different question, but your... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
“Wait a minute though! Where does the pig-run go to?” “The mountain,” said Jack, “I told you.” He sneered. “Don’t you want to go to the mountain?” Ralph sighed, sensing the rising antagonism,... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
You don't always get a description of the horse, but the pilgrims are riding on horseback to Canterbury. The General Prologue mentions the need for stables, and several of the pilgrims are actually... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
They're odd characters - only appearing at the start and at the end of the play. And it is the gap between these two appearances that seem to make the most difference to the way that they react to... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Though Ralph is sometimes distracted by the glamour of hunting, or by having fun, he fundamentally believes that the most important thing is that the boys have to be rescued from the island. “This... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Well, we know it only happens because Oberon has anointed her eyes with the "love-in-idleness" flower. And, Shakespeare makes perfectly clear, it's absolutely an on-sight reaction based on Bottom's... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Well, when the boys decide that they should have a chief, Jack immediately chirps up and puts himself forth for the role: 'Shut up,' said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. 'Seems to me we...
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