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Answered a Question in Othello
Because Othello similarly loses the immortal part of himself, leaving something far more uncivilised, savage, animalistic and bestial. What do we mean by the immortal part of himself? Well,... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
We're not exactly sure. We think there are two lost Shakespeares, Cardenio and Love's Labour's Won. Some scholars think that Shakespeare wrote Edward III alone, and we know he had a share in... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
There are - literally - hundreds, even including some of Shakespeare's titles ("As You Like It", "All's Well That Ends Well"). Shakespeare made a major contribution to teh wordstock and... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
"The darkness of man's heart", as Golding puts it in the final paragraph of the novel, refers to Golding's theory that mankind is instinctively, natively, nasty and vicious. No matter what happens... -
Answered a Question in Othello
I'd say there's three main reasons: 1) Clever psychological manipulation. Iago knows exactly what to suggest, and when to suggest it. He says things briefly, succintly - those four devastating... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Shakespeare doesn't actually specify when "Hamlet" is supposed to take place. It's obviously set in Denmark, and, despite a recent trend of claiming that it's definitely set in the 12th century,... -
Answered a Question in The Taming of the Shrew
Well, Petruchio's tactic, here as elsewhere, is to divorce his words from the real action of the play, just as he does to Kate in the taming scene. Here's his opening line: PET: Pray, have you not... -
Answered a Question in History
Roosevelt began office when America was scared and extremely panicked. A very famous passage by Arthur Schlesinger about the mood before FDR took office reads as follows: It was... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
It's guesswork, I'm afraid - we just don't know exactly. The answer is that "Romeo and Juliet" must have been written some time between 1591 and 1596. The latter date acknowledges the... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare's source for the play, Arthur Brooke's "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet" (1562), the events take at least nine months to unfold (the time scale is very vague). As usual,... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Well, Romeo goes to Mantua. But he isn't actually banished to anywhere: he's only banished from Verona. Here's what the Prince says: And for that offence Immediately we do exile him hence...... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Act 1, like most first acts in drama, is mainly about setting the scene, and introducing the characters. It largely builds toward the Capulet party in its final scene: Act 1, Scene 5. The first... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. Juliet has fallen in love with Romeo at... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
I think the one you're looking to eliminate from that list is "no supernatural images". Gothic novels tend to be packed full of images and figures of the supernatural, as well as with the... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Not really. "Proactive" would imply to me that they actually performed actions within the plot, and - making the fair assumption that you don't include Oberon, Titania and Puck in your... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Good question, and one which I think the play itself is quite interested in. Heminges and Condell, when they put together the First Folio, classed it as a "comedy" (see the link below),... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer's Eve is the "summer solstice", the longest day of the summer. It has been celebrated in the UK since the 13th century as a holiday, often involving maypole dancing, morris dancing,... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Two different motives, I think. Cassius seems pent-up with personal aggression towards Caesar, and real envy of how powerful he has become: He had a fever when he was in Spain... Ye gods! It doth... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
It's impossible precisely to say. There is a case to be made in the text for either possibility. To argue that she did know about Old Hamlet's murder, people turn to the evidence that her marriage... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Yes - it's the first moment that the audience can be sure that Claudius is in fact guilty, and that the ghost (even if not the spirit of Hamlet's father) is honest. Until then, nothing has been... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
It's not a major scene in the play to be honest. The scene opens with the introduction of "Launcelot Gobbo", Shylock's servant, and one of the play's few comic characters, debating whether to stay... -
Answered a Question in Antony and Cleopatra
The first bit's reasonably easy, I think: Cleo is just imagining what Antony might be doing on the other side of the world. And, thinking that he might be on his horse, she envies the horse -... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Simon, right at the start of the chapter, makes his prediction to Ralph that Ralph'll get back all right. He's already behaving in an "other" sort of way - slightly unusual, slightly... -
Answered a Question in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
There's loads! I've picked out some below- Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Well, they don't really say much to each other. They fight in the first scene, where Benvolio treats Tybalt with what seems to me a rather weary indifference: TYBALT: What, art thou drawn among... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Early in the novel, you see the conflict between hunting and keeping the fire going - Jack is for the former, and Ralph for the latter. You see in here, I think, the key differences that Ralph and... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
I think the key point to make here is made by Golding at the end of Chapter 6. Jack is the one with the bravery and guts to lead the boys on a hunt for the beast, and, indeed, the chapter closes... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Well, it's a counter-factual question: to change the boys into girls would entirely change the tone and shape of the novel. For one thing, there would be problems with the period: when Golding was... -
Answered a Question in Murder in the Cathedral
Because it's written in verse. You might hear it called a poetic play, or indeed, a "verse drama": all that means is that the dialogue is patterned into a verse form. If you looked at a script of -... -
Answered a Question in The Taming of the Shrew
The Induction with Christopher Sly is in fact the only "Induction" of its type in all of Shakespeare's works. The Induction shows Sly, a beggar, falling asleep. He is tricked by some Lords into... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Well, we don't really know for certain when "Romeo and Juliet" is set, or when it was written either. Scholars currently think that the play might plausibly be dated to 1595. We know too that it... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
pmiranda2857 has already answered your question excellently: though it is the crown of Scotland, not England which Macbeth longs for and eventually gains. And, interestingly, Macbet himself... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare doesn't actually give Capulet a specific motive for holding the feast. It's just, I suppose, a party that you'd throw because people like having parties - it's also, if you think... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
There's lots of ways to answer this, and of course, Golding uses different techniques at different times to establish different tones. His use, particularly of natural imagery and metaphors,... -
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 Lord of the Flies
Golding gives us the answer to this one just after Piggy has been killed by Roger. Presently the tribe returned noisily to the neck where Roger joined them. The Chief spoke to him... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
I actually think that the word is quite a fascinating one in the play. Ms-mcgregor gives you a good gloss of it above, and its meaning in the prophecies scene. Yet it also comes up lots of other... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Malcolm, making the final speech of the whole play, says that tyranny produced ... the cruel ministers Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen, Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
As your question suggest, he's both. He's disgracefully treated by the Christians: they mock his religion, refuse to trade with him, spit on him in the street, and - even in the trial scene - mock... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet, I think, is pretending to read from his book, but - as with many of his other mocking comments to Polonius in this scene - he is making a reference to Ophelia. "Carrion" can mean either... -
Answered a Question in An Inspector Calls
Tension in this act, I think, depends mainly on the fact that the audience now know there is more to come out, and the speed at which Priestley allows it to actually come out - the audience is... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Well, when Portia gives Bassanio the ring, she says this: This house, these servants, and this same myself, Are yours, my lord,—I give them with this ring; Which when you part from, lose, or give... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Well, let me make the caveat first that there's no absolute right answers to this one, and it depends on how you read the book... Piggy. The easiest to symbolically analyse. Common-sense,... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
I think you must be referring to Hamlet's plan to put on the play, "The Mousetrap" in front of Claudius to see if he can see any signs of guilt. It's the nearest thing I can think of to Hamlet... -
Answered a Question in Ode to the West Wind
I can see why you're having problems. Because of Shelley's love of enjambment (continuing the sense of a line onto the next line) the poetic devices actually extend back further than line 7, and on... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Though he can't remember their names correctly, Claudius summons Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Elsinore so that, under the guise of friendship, they can investigate Hamlet's madness: The need we... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
The Beast, is, as Golding's final page has it, "the darkness of man's heart". It's the evil, the fundamental badness, inside all human beings - which has to be fought to prevent human civilisation... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Banquo is immediately suspicious of the witches, and, though he believes the veracity of the prophecies, he's suspicious of the prophets: But ’tis strange; And oftentimes, to win us to our... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
"Macbeth" isn't really the play for "God's purpose", as you put it here - God doesn't feature really in the play, or even in in its language. This is likely because Shakespeare imagined the play... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
It's another flower, whose juice is squeezed into the eye, which removes the effects of the "love-in-idleness" flower. Here's Oberon toward the end of Act 3, Scene 2, giving instructions to Puck:...
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