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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Why did the doctor leave town?

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Labels: An Enemy Of the People, Ibsen

Has Dr. Stockman "done no more than [his] duty" (p. 242)?

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Labels: An Enemy Of the People, Ibsen

Hovstad thinks the doctor is naive because he is a man of science (p. 246). Is there some truth to this stereotype?

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Labels: An Enemy Of the People, Ibsen

How is it that Mrs. Stockman can perceive potential consequences in Act II but not in Act I?

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Labels: An Enemy Of the People, Ibsen

Why would Billing be counting on Kiil's money going to the Stockman children (p. 271)?

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Labels: An Enemy Of the People, Ibsen

Does Dr. Stockman go mad?

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Labels: An Enemy Of the People, Ibsen

Is liberalism the enemy of revolution?

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Labels: An Enemy Of the People, Ibsen

Monday, April 11, 2011

Why does Hamlet "put an antic disposition on" (I.v.172, p. 113)? Does he actually go mad?

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Labels: Hamlet, Shakespeare

Do the charges of incest & adultery reflect more on Gertrude & Claudius or on Hamlet & his father?

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Labels: Hamlet, Shakespeare

Thursday, April 7, 2011

In his concern for Claudius' soul (III.iii.73-96, p. 173), is Hamlet trying to play God?

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Labels: Hamlet, Shakespeare

Is the ghost "an honest ghost" (I.v.158, p. 112)? What is the meaning of its injunction "Taint not thy mind" (I.v.85, p. 109)?

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Labels: Hamlet, Shakespeare

What did Hamlet mean by his pantomime with Ophelia (II.i.75 ff., pp.117-118)?

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Labels: Hamlet, Shakespeare

How should Laertes & Ophelia act toward each other during I.iii (pp. 59 ff.)?

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Labels: Hamlet, Shakespeare

"Sullied" or "solid?" (I.ii.129, p.88)

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Labels: Hamlet, Shakespeare
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