What happens to Faust at the end of Goethe’s Faust (1808)?
Faust’s soul is rescued by a choir of angels at the end of Goethe’s Faust (1808).
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Ethan Frome and his beloved, Mattie Silver, drive a sled into a tree in a botched suicide attempt in Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome.
Which crusade is the subject of Jerusalem Delivered?
The Italian religious epic Jerusalem Delivered, written in 1575 by Torquato Tasso (1544-95), concerns the First Crusade, in which European Christians fought to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims. The First Crusade lasted from 1095 to 1099.
What does “in a Pickwickian sense” mean?
“In a Pickwickian sense” refers to the joking use of insulting words or epithets. The phrase comes from Dickens’s Pickwick Papers (1836-37). Samuel Pickwick exchanges barbs in just such a friendly way with Mr. Blotton in Chapter One.
Does the title character in Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) have a name?
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At whom was Alexander Pope’s poem The Dunciad (1728) aimed?
Published in several versions from 1728 to 1743, the mock-epic poem The Dunciad satirized bad writing and attacked critics of Pope’s poetry. In the final version, the king of the Dunces is Colley Cibber, England’s Poet Laureate from 1730 to 1757. Other targets of Pope’s venom were dramatists Nahum Tate and Lewis Theobald. Published in…
Which brother does Antigone bury against King Creon’s will in Sophocles’ Antigone (441 B.C.)?
Antigone’s two brothers are Eteocles and Polyneices. Both are dead when the play opens, but Creon forbids the burial of Polyneices, who had rebelled against Creon’s rule. Antigone gives him a token burial anyway. Antigone also has a sister, Ismene.