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Section 1: Characters
Directions: Complete the charts below to help you review for the short answer questions on characters on the first-semester exam. Make sure to write 2-3 sentences when you explain your examples. This document is not only a great resource to study for the final, but it is also one of the last daily grades of the semester! Do your best!
Beowulf
You may use your notes from the text. Links to all sections of Beowulf are in the Unit 2 Folder on Schoology.
Character | Biblical Parallel | Explain a specific example of how that character illustrates the Biblical parallel. |
|---|---|---|
Beowulf | Jesus | They both die to save his people |
Grendel | Satan | It destroyer of life kills many people and no joy |
Geats (followers of Beowulf) | Disciples | They are a follower even to far away lands and they ran when it got dangerous |
Character | Anglo-Saxon Characteristics | Explain a specific example of how the character exhibits that cultural value. |
|---|---|---|
Beowulf | Loyal and Bravery and Hero | He goes on a journey to help others and helps people who aren't even his people. Bravery when he fights with his bare hands. |
Wiglaf | Honor and Loyal | Only one that is willing to help during the fight with dragon wont let the king die by himself |
Geats (followers of Beowulf) | Loyal and Fear | They were loyal to an extent until they were afraid for their own lives |
Grendel's Mother | Revenge | She was trying to avenge her son's death
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Canterbury Tales
You will find the information on these characters in the “General Prologue” text in the Unit 3 Folder on Schoology. You may also use your notes to help you answer.
Character | What does Chaucer reveal about his society through the character? | Explain a specific example that evidences your claim about what the character reveals about Chaucer's society. |
|---|---|---|
Monk | Hypocrisy of the church Corrupt clergyman | He care for himself- he lives a luxurious lifestyles- only wanted to hunt and socialize. |
Nun | Inside of the church is self centered. | She cared for her looks and her social class more |
Pardoner | Showing that there is greed inside the church | He keeps money for himself. |
Plowman | True/Ideal Christian in the working class | He helped the poor and worked very hard, he loved God with all of his heart. |
Parson | True/Ideal Christian in the Church | He didn't look down on people for their sins- practices what he preaches. |
Knight | True/Ideal Christian in the higher class | He fights battles for God |
Miller | Corrupt/cheating working class | He steals grain. He gets more money for the little bit he is selling. |
Wife of Bath | Gold digger- doesnt fit in any of the classes. One of a kind. | She's different from most of the women of her time. Only way to do it was the wealth of all of her husbands. |
“Rioters” | During the black plague | In search of death bec everyone was dying. They learned that greed leads to death. |
Macbeth
You may use your book and class notes to complete this section.
Character | What does the character reveal about human nature? | Specific Example and Explanation |
|---|---|---|
Macbeth | Dangers of ambition | He dies after being to greedy/ Ambitious |
Lady Macbeth | Manipulative | After Duncan was killed she told Macbeth that it was okay. And told him it was good and okay to kill duncan v |
Banquo | Even if you do the right thing you can still get hurt. | That his sons will be king even though he had to die for that to happen |
Macduff | Loyal | Towards his king and country. He was considers the man not born of a woman, |
Witches | Might tell you a little truth to cause you harm | They provide info about the future that seems good to macbeth but its not really |
Malcolm | People can be distrusting | He lies about his greedy nature to macduff |
Duncan | Beloved by his people and betrayed by his ambitious thane (macbeth) |
Section 2: Quotes
Junior English Semester 1 Exam Quotations Review
Directions: Use the passages below to help you prepare for the first semester exam. For each quotation, provide the context and explain the significance of the passage to character and theme development.
From Beowulf by Anonymous
- “I’d use no sword, no weapon, if this beast
Could be killed without it, crushed to death
Like Grendel, gripped in my hands and torn
Limb from limb. But his breath will be burning
Hot, poison will pour from his tongue.
I feel no shame, with shield and sword
And armor, against this monster: when he comes to me
I mean to stand, not run from his shooting
Flames, stand till fate decides
Which of us wins. My heart is firm,
My hands calm: I need no hot
Words. Wait for me close by, my friends.
We shall see, soon, who will survive
This bloody battle, stand when the fighting
Is done. No one else could do
What I mean to, here, no man but me
Could hope to defeat this monster. No one
Could try. And this dragon’s treasure, his gold
And everything hidden in that tower, will be mine
Or war will sweep me to a bitter death!”
He is about to fight the dragon. Shows his bravery and loyalty towards his people. And shows the pride that the anglo-saxon heroes had because he would like to fight him without the sword and shield but he knows he can't.
- “By almighty God,
I’d rather burn myself than see
Flames swirling around my lord.
And who are we to carry home
Our shields before we’ve slain his enemy
And ours, to run back to our homes with Beowulf
So hard-pressed here? I swear that nothing
He ever did deserved an end
Like this, dying miserably and alone,
Butchered by this savage beast: we swore
That these swords and armor were each for us all!”
Wiglaf is speaking to the other Thanes that ran. He is ridiculing them for not wanting to help.
From “The General Prologue” by Geoffrey Chaucer
- “My Lords! Remember what you promised me.
If evensong and matins will agree
Let’s see who shall be first to tell a tale.
And as I hope to drink good wine and ale
I’ll be your judge. The rebel who disobeys,
However much the journey costs, he pays.
Now draw for cut and then we can depart;
The man who draws the shortest cut shall start.”
The host is speaking to the pilgrims who are traveling. He is reminding them of the contest (each would tell a story on the way there and back and the winner gets to have a free meal).
From “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer
- And pardons too, as full and fine, I hope,
As any in England, given me by the Pope.
If there be on among you that is willing
To have my absolution for a shilling
Devoutly given, come! And do not harden
Your hearts but kneel in humbleness for a pardon;
Or else, recieve my pardon as we go.
You can renew it every town or so
Always provided that you still renew
Each time, and in good money, what is due
The pardoner is offering them forgiveness
- “Well, sirs,’ he said, ‘if it be your design
to find out Death, turn up this crooked way
Towards that grove, I left him there today
Under a tree, and there you’ll find him waiting.”
Old man is talking to ritours who are looking for death. And they found the gold behind the tree that causes the death. Greed causes death.
From Macbeth by William Shakespeare
WITCHES:
- “Fair is foul and foul is fair,/ Hover through the fog and filthy air.” (I.i.10-11)
The witches say that because it is contradicting itself. appearance vs reality.
- “Bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ’t” (1.5.73-75).
Lady macbeth is speaking to Mabeth she is saying this because she is telling him to seem innocent so they don't catch on that they are about to kill the king,
MACBETH
- Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red” (2.2..60-63)
Macbeth is speaking about the blood on hands from killing duncan the blood represents the sin/the guilt. He wont be abelt to get rid of this guilt/sin.
MACBETH
- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in the petty pace from day to day,
to the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing. (5.5.19-28)
Macbeth is speaking. This is a siloquoi. He is talking about how life is useless and worthless. Lady Macbeth has just died. Life signifies nothing.
LADY MACBETH
- Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him” (5.1.28-33).
Lady Macbeth is speaking. She is sleep walking and is confessing all the crimes they have committed. She is guilty
From “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
10. “It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes”.
Swift is speaking. It is significant because he is telling the British people of the cirmantaneses in ireland. How they are poor and begging and have no food.
11.I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar’s child (in which list I reckon all cottagers, labourers, and four-fifths of the farmers) to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good fat child, which, as I have said, will make four dishes of excellent nutritive meat, when he hath only some particular friend, or his own family to dine with him. Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child.
Swift is speaking. He is comparing the children to pigs or any kind of animal you would sell for food. He is saying the British see them as these and have dehumanized the children of ireland.