Lynnette Wofford, Ph.D.
eNotes Educator
Achievements
19
Educator Level
7328
Answers Posted
1894
Answers Bonused
About
Professor of English.
Earned Badges
-
Educator of the Month
This badge is awarded to one Educator each month for outstanding contributions to Homework Help. -
eNotes Educator
This badge is awarded to all eNotes Educators. Only official Educators can answer students' questions on our site. Educators are teachers, professional researchers, and scholars who apply to our... -
Top of the Class
This badge is awarded if an Educator answers a question that is popular with our users. -
Hall of Fame
Educators can earn this badge by contributing over 1,000 answers on eNotes. -
Year One Badge
This badge is awarded once an Educator has been in the eNotes Educator Program for over one year. -
Year Two Badge
This badge is awarded once an Educator has been in the eNotes Educator Program for over two years. -
Year Three Badge
This badge is awarded once an Educator has been in the eNotes Educator Program for over three years. -
Year Four Badge
This badge is awarded once an Educator has been in the eNotes Educator Program for over four years. -
Year Five Badge
This badge is awarded once an Educator has been in the eNotes Educator Program for over five years. -
Year Six Badge
This badge is awarded once an Educator has been in the eNotes Educator Program for over six years. -
Year Seven Badge
This badge is awarded once an Educator has been in the eNotes Educator Program for over seven years. -
Year Eight Badge
This badge is awarded once an Educator has been in the eNotes Educator Program for over eight years. -
10K Points Earner
Educators earn points for every question they answer. This Educator has earned over 10,000 points. -
25K Points Earner
Educators earn points for every question they answer. This Educator has earned over 25,000 points. -
50K Points Earner
Educators earn points for every question they answer. This Educator has earned over 50,000 points. -
100K Points Earner
Educators earn points for every question they answer. This Educator has earned over 100,000 points. -
200K Points Earner
Educators earn points for every question they answer. This Educator has earned over 200,000 points. -
Expert
An expert badge distinguishes Educators who demonstrate strong knowledge in a particular topic, such as Hamlet or Math. It is awarded when an Educator has posted more than 25 answers on a given topic. -
Scholar
The scholar badge recognizes Educators who are especially knowledgeable about a particular author. This badge is awarded once an Educator has posted more than 50 answers on works by a specific author. -
Poetry Whiz
Bonuses are awarded when an Educator has gone above and beyond and impressed the editorial team by offering an especially lengthy, nuanced, or insightful answer. This badge is given to an Educator... -
Literature Whiz
Bonuses are awarded when an Educator has gone above and beyond and impressed the editorial team by offering an especially lengthy, nuanced, or insightful answer. This badge is given to an Educator... -
History Whiz
Bonuses are awarded when an Educator has gone above and beyond and impressed the editorial team by offering an especially lengthy, nuanced, or insightful answer. This badge is given to an Educator... -
Science Whiz
Bonuses are awarded when an Educator has gone above and beyond and impressed the editorial team by offering an especially lengthy, nuanced, or insightful answer. This badge is given to an Educator...
Recent Activity
-
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
This quotation is from a discussion about military strategy between Brutus and Cassius. In it, Brutus is speaking to advocate attacking Octavian at Philippi. He argues that this would be the ideal... -
Answered a Question in Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë has several religious themes, reflecting the background of the author as the daughter of a priest. At the time it was written, the Church of England was the official... -
Answered a Question in Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is described as a modern novel for several reasons. First and most obviously, it was written in the modern period. It also has several generic characteristics that... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights are from very different periods and are stylistically quite different. Both novels do involve romantic relationships which are fundamentally... -
Answered a Question in Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne is primarily a commentary on the social, economic, and political situation in England, not Europe as a whole. Unlike the cosmopolitan modernists, the Angry Young... -
Answered a Question in The Art of Poetry
Ars Poetica, or The Art of Poetry, was a work written by the Latin poet Horace in approximately 19 BC. It is in the form of a letter addressed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso and his sons, and thus, it... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
Hrothgar, king of the Danes (before the opening of the action of the poem), aided Ecgtheow, Beowulf's father, in negotiating an end to a feud with the Wulflings by paying the weregild owed for... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
The distinction between denotation and connotation is a philosophically important one that, in modern philosophy of language, traces back to work on the nature of meaning by the German philosopher,... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
First, on the literal level, the play is about the Salem Witch Trials. While many colonists originally came to America in search of freedom from religious oppression, many groups swiftly, once in... -
Answered a Question in Greek Mythology
Uranus, Cronus (also spelled Cronos or Kronos), and Zeus represent three generations of Greek gods. They are mentioned in many different literary and mythological works, but the most detailed... -
Answered a Question in Middlemarch
There are many different sorts of female protagonists in Victorian novels from a wide variety of social and economic backgrounds. The phrase "conventional Victorian heroine" in many ways indicates... -
Answered a Question in Immanuel Kant
For Kant, to act morally is to act out of a sense of moral duty alone. Other reasons for actions are not purely moral or right reasons. This leads Kant to the seemingly paradoxical point that... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
It is important to remember that the real villain of the novel is not the unfortunate monster but his creator, Victor Frankenstein. Victor, like Mary Shelley's husband Percy and their friend Lord... -
Answered a Question in Mesopotamia
First, one should note that the Assyrian Empire was Mesopotamian. The various empires centered in Mesopotamia were generally pagan and polytheistic until their conversion to Christianity and later... -
Answered a Question in Shakespeare's Sonnets
The phrase "the human spirit" is problematic. Insofar as the phrase "the human spirit" simply refers to the mental characteristics all humans have in common, it is overdetermined. The definite... -
Answered a Question in Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is a nonfiction book by African-American businesswomen, journalist, and entrepreneur Margot... -
Answered a Question in Guns, Germs, and Steel
Geography is presented as a crucial factor determining how civilizations develop in Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. What makes geography so important is its effect on food production.... -
Answered a Question in History
The first major effect geography had on ancient Greece had to do with agriculture. Much of Greece is rocky, relatively arid, and mountainous, which affects the types of crops that can be grown and... -
Answered a Question in Henry Earl of Surrey Howard
"London, Hast Thou Accursed Me" is a poem by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547). The poem consists of 68 lines of iambic tetrameter. It uses frequent end rhymes but in an irregular pattern... -
Answered a Question in Ulysses
The phrase "savage race" occurs in the fourth line of Tennyson's poem "Ulysses." The third and fourth lines run in full: Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race... -
Answered a Question in Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes, known as "Ted" Hughes in literary criticism and biography, was an English poet born on August 17, 1930 who died on October 28, 1998. The first reason he is described as modern... -
Answered a Question in Ballad of the Landlord
Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902–May 22, 1967) was an African American poet, political activist, and writer whose work portrayed the African American experience, especially of people living in the... -
Answered a Question in History
Ancient Greek tragedy and comedy had very well established generic convention while modern drama has a wide range of possibilities. In staging, ancient Greek dramas were performed in theaters in... -
Answered a Question in Dance Hall of the Dead
The Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman is set mainly on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. The characters in the novel reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of the region and the... -
Answered a Question in Arms and the Man
The title "arms and the man" is taken from the opening line of Virgil's Aeneid, "arma virumque cano" (Latin for "I sing of arms and the man"). In Virgil's poem, it signifies that the work belongs... -
Answered a Question in Dance Hall of the Dead
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman (May 27, 1925–October 26, 2008) is a detective novel originally published in 1973. It is set on Navajo and Zuni reservations in New Mexico, and the plot of... -
Answered a Question in Shakespeare's Sonnets
The term "Elizabethan" refers to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, who ruled England from November 17, 1558, until she died on March 24, 1603. This is considered one of the... -
Answered a Question in European History
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, was born on September 29, 1725 in Shropshire, England to a family that was part of the class of the gentry. He died on November 22, 1774 in London. He... -
Answered a Question in Footnote to Youth
Jose Garcia Villa (August 5, 1908–February 7, 1997) was a Filipino writer and artist. He was born in Manila to a prosperous family and attended high school in Manila and studied at the University... -
Answered a Question in History
Middle English marks the transition between Old English and Modern English as a result of the 1066 Norman Conquest of England by William the Conqueror. Old English was a Germanic language, while... -
Answered a Question in The Scholar-Gipsy
"The Scholar-Gipsy" was a 1853 poem by Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822—15 April 1888), a major English poet, essayist, and educational administrator. It is based on a story Arnold encountered in... -
Answered a Question in Norman Conquests
The Norman conquest led to the transition from Old English to Middle English literature. The changes occurred on the level of language, prosody, and content. When William the Conqueror arrived in... -
Answered a Question in Tom Jones
First, one should note that the sentences in Tom Jones are not particularly long or complex for his period. Unfortunately, syntactic attention spans of English language readers and average sentence... -
Answered a Question in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In creating a comparative analysis of two works, it is important not just to choose a second work at random but to think about what particular aspect of a work is worth comparing to another work.... -
Answered a Question in Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennett is an example of the "pride" described in the title. She is much smarter than many members of her family and trusts too much in her first impressions. The first ameliorating... -
Answered a Question in The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, a fictional consulting detective, as a protagonist and his friend Dr. Watson as a narrator. Originally... -
Answered a Question in Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw is a play criticizing the British upper classes of the Edwardian era. Shaw explicitly draws parallels between this play and Checkov's analysis of the decline... -
Answered a Question in Rastafarian
The Rastafari movement, sometimes also spelled Ras Tafari, was founded in Jamaica in the 1930s. Members of the group are known as Rastafarians or Rastas. It combines Protestant Christianity,... -
Answered a Question in History
Europeans arrived in America from many different countries, and they settled in many different areas. A Spanish explorer in Florida or New Mexico would have a very different experience than a... -
Answered a Question in Guns, Germs, and Steel
The central argument of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond is that environmental rather than cultural factors were the major causes of disparities in wealth and technology among cultures.... -
Answered a Question in William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883–March 4, 1963) was a poet, writer, and, importantly, physician. He spent most of his adult life in Rutherford, New Jersey, where he was affiliated with... -
Answered a Question in The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is an example of a genre of poetry known as "mock-epic." This genre follows many of the conventions of the heroic epic to the effect of satirizing both the... -
Answered a Question in Invisible Man
Invisible Man is a novel by African-American author Ralph Ellison, first published by Random House in 1952. It responds to Ellison's own disillusionment with the communist party. In the late 1930s... -
Answered a Question in There Will Come Soft Rains
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by Ray Bradbury set in Allendale, California in 2026. The city has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb. Despite this, a house and the computers that... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was originally published in the 1920s and reflects the nature of upper class life in New York in that period. To compare Gatsby to a "real life" person means... -
Answered a Question in Waiting for Godot
Vladimir and Estragon are the protagonists of Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. The main action of the play consists of them talking with each other and another pair of characters, Pozzo and his... -
Answered a Question in A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens was published in 1859 but set before and during the French Revolution (the events before and after 1789). Dickens's attitude toward the French... -
Answered a Question in On Liberty
On Liberty by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill was originally published in 1859. Mill started writing the essay in 1854 with the help of his wife, Harriet Taylor, and published it in the... -
Answered a Question in Antigone
The two works have very different attitudes towards destiny because they are grounded in different philosophical and religious beliefs. Antigone is a play based on Greek mythology. Sophocles did... -
Answered a Question in Grendel
At the end of the anonymous Old English epic Beowulf, the eponymous hero kills a dragon that has been attacking his people but dies from his wounds. Wiglaf is a kinsman of Beowulf who helped...
Showing 151-200 of 2717