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Answered a Question in Macbeth
Difficult to say, really. THe idea of murdering Duncan occurs to Macbeth before Lady Macbeth is even introduced into the play: just after he's heard the witches prophesy that he will be king, he... -
Answered a Question in A Doll's House
Yes - he calls her a "spendthrift", and metes out the household money to her from his own pocket, rather stingily. The irony comes simply because Nora is, in fact, an extremely skilful manager of... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Well, it seems to me that the below quote from Ralph inspires the thought of the children who have died on the plane: 'The plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are. We may be here... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Here's the opening of the book: The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
When the witches prophecy that Macbeth will be king, he desperately wants to know how it will happen: The Thane of Cawdor lives, A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
There's a link to our enotes "Themes" link below. And I've given you some adjectives (and other words) that I think fit the mood of the scenes in Act 3. All the scenes have separate sections... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Let me first make a caveat: although we can all spot the SAME features of Shylock's language, what they tell us about his character is subjective. There's no absolute right answers. The first thing... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Mercutio's line is, put simply, a curse on both the Capulet and the Montague families. Mercutio's curse is because he blames the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
It's basically every time he ever makes a decision. And more or less every time this happens, Cassius then gives the correct answer - which Brutus ignores. 1) Brutus entirely misjudges Casca's... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad; It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Have you heard the phrase "a hostage to fortune"? It's when you say something that's only too certain to come back and bite you later on. Your fortune is how well things are going for you - and... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
There's a detailed summary at the link below, but here's the gist of each of the scenes you're missing: Act 2, Scene 3: The Porter provides some light comic relief, and then morning comes and... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
I don't see why you'd get any reason to think that from the text itself - though it's something that could easily be brought out in a production. And, in Act 1, Scene 2, Claudius is all praise for... -
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 Romeo and Juliet
Good question - and quite a difficult one to answer. Friar Laurence is a monk, with whom Romeo has struck up a very close friendship. He has odd beliefs (certainly unusual for a Christian friar!)... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
In the first scene Capulet addresses Paris (who is asking to marry Juliet for the umpteenth time) and seems just to be trying to get rid of him and get him off his case: But saying o'er what I... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Well, I haven't got space here to write your essay but will provide some starting points - please do post again if you need further help. "Macbeth" is a play written in verse, that is, in iambic... -
Answered a Question in The Zoo Story
After Jerry has completed his story about the dog, he sets about physically encroaching on his space. He tickles him, pushes him, punches him and tries to get him into a fight over... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Unfortunately for her, he actually says quite a few lines. In fact, he entirely flies off the handle, losing his temper, and uttering one of the most bone-chillingly furious speeches in all of... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
@afi80fl Brutus has no personal grudge against Caesar; in fact, he is the last to stab him because he has the least amount of personal hatred toward him. I know that what you're arguing... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Great question - and there isn't a right answer. Antony clearly doesn't think so when he juxtaposes Brutus' actions with his ideals in the funeral speech in which he - with increasing levels of... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Well, the obvious place to look is her first scene. W. H. Auden once said that "first things in Shakespeare are always important", and true to form, the first time Lady Macbeth appears, she reads... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
These two descriptive paragraphs serve lots of interesting purposes. Firstly, they serve to add to the establishment of the island as a tropical paradise: The glittering sea rose up, moved... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The word "greed" doesn't actually appear in the play itself: though that doesn't mean it's irrelevant to "Macbeth" and its themes. More usually you'll come across critics and scholars talking about... -
Answered a Question in Waiting for Godot
There are several ways to read the characters of "Waiting for Godot" as symbolic. I'll provide you with some of the major readings, though for the details, you'll have to do some digging in the... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Lady Macbeth reads the letter aloud, in the scene, perhaps for the last of many times. She is Macbeth's "dearest partner of greatness", as he puts it in the letter, and she immediately begins... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
This is the classic "Julius Caesar" question and I'm not sure how many millions of essays have been written about it! I'll just start you off with the major points which you can then develop:... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
"Julius Caesar" is currently undergoing a bit of a critical reappreciation and - as you'll see if you look at other JC Q&As on enotes - there's a lot of argument about the play. So first point... -
Answered a Question in Geoffrey Chaucer
This is a huge question - and people have written whole books in order to answer it. I can provide you with the main points though: Chaucer considerably expanded the word-stock of English, being... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare never directly tells us the answer! As you suggest, his friends suggest that he's worried about his ships - his merchandise. But Antonio responds My ventures are not in one bottom... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Actually, Shylock's "defense of his Jewish humanity" is not humane at all. It justifies - wrongly justifies, most commentators would argue - his revenge. Why does he want Antonio's flesh, he is... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
It's an absolutely key scene. Shakespeare is an absolute master at juxtaposing the comic with the dramatic: and the two gravediggers' comic dialogue which precedes Hamlet's entrance prepares the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Maynard Mack did indeed write that Hamlet is "pre-eminently in the interrogative mood". What Mack might actually have simply said is "Hamlet is a play obsessed with asking questions". Some... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
It's an interesting question, but I'm not sure Shakespeare really specifies how many chances Hamlet gets to potentially kill Claudius. Thinking about it, any time when Hamlet is onstage with... -
Answered a Question in Medea
It's the male sex who are cruel and deceitful - they cannot keep oaths, and, the chorus prophecy, it is women whose reputation will turn over time and eventually become well thought of. Remember,... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
This one is - unusually for Shakespeare - unequivocally and clearly expressed in the text. Antony says of Lepidus This is a slight unmeritable man, Meet to be sent on errands. Is it fit, The... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
It's from the "To be or not to be" soliloquy - and it's the last line of an argument Hamlet's thinking through about death. He starts by arguing that nobody would bear the burdens ("fardels") of... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hippolyta doesn't say a lot in the play - but from what she says first, it seems she finds the play itself rather ridiculous: HIPPOLYTA: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard Theseus'... -
Answered a Question in Othello
The handkerchief is indeed an important symbol. First and foremost, I'd say, it symbolizes fragility: a white, light, handkerchief which comes to take on so much importance as a symbol of... -
Answered a Question in Othello
There is - as usual in Shakespeare's tragedies - a huge body count at the end of Othello. In the scene in the dark, Cassio is wounded in the leg, and Roderigo is killed by Iago in the dark. In the... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Loads of places to look here. One of the most impressive places to quote from I would argue would be one of the least-appreciated scenes in the play: Act 4, Scene 3. This starts off being a debate... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Good question. "Pyramus and Thisbe" is usually looked at by critics these days as a parody of "Romeo and Juliet", a play usually considered to be from around the same sort of period in... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Here are lines 63-69 of Act 2, Scene 1: Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. The genius and the mortal... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Good question! The Roman historian Suetonius writes of Caesar that he ...is said to have been tall of stature with a fair complexion, shapely limbs, a somewhat full face, and keen black eyes;... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena knows sickness is contagious: she wishes that "favour" - an Elizabethan word for "affection" (it's where we get "favour-ite" from) was too. That way, of course, she might be able to catch... -
Answered a Question in Doctor Faustus
It's one of the key questions of the play. For a long time, critics thought that the comic section in the very middle of the play was probably inserted by other writers to pad the play out - and... -
Answered a Question in Doctor Faustus
"My blood congeals and I can write no more". Thus speaks Faustus, on trying to sign his contract with the devil, which Mephistopheles has told him already, has to be signed in blood. The... -
Answered a Question in The Winter's Tale
Actually, the title of "The Winter's Tale" is one of the few Shakespeare plays actually to contain a worked-in reference to its own title: HERMIONE. What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir,... -
Answered a Question in Othello
He doesn't really speak to her much at all during the play itself, which says something in itself: in fact, the only real conversation which Shakespeare dramatises between them is when she has... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Because he thinks Juliet is dead. Remember that Friar Laurence's plan is to give Juliet the sleeping potion, and then let her family discover her body. When she is placed in the family tomb, Friar...
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