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In 2 paragraphs (4-7 sentences each paragraph) for each quote , you must do the following:
(1) explain in detail what is happening just before and just after the quote (find and read the quote in context);
(2) reflect deeply on the importance of the passage
To reflect on the importance of the passage, please keep in mind that the passage could help us understand a key character or a key issue or theme in the reading that you have discovered through active reading. DO NOT plagiarize.
1. Gawain, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
Regard []
the symbol of sin, for which my neck bears the scar;
a sign of my fault and offence and failure,
of cowardice and covetousness I came to commit.
I was tainted by untruth. This, its token,
I will drape across my chest till the day I die.
2. The Gawain Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 1
“He brimmed with ebullience, being almost boyish
in his love of life, and what he liked the least
was to sit still watching the seasons slip by.
His blood was busy and he buzzed with thoughts,
and the matter which played on his mind at that moment
was his pledge to take no portion from his plate
on such a special day until a story was told:
some far-fetched yarn or outrageous fable,
the tallest of tales, yet one ringing with truth,
like the action-packed epics of men-at-arms.”
3.Caliban, The Tempest
“I must eat my dinner.
This islands mine by Sycorax my mother,
Which thou takst from me. When thou camst first,
Thou strokst me & made much of me; wouldst give me
Water with berries int; and teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee
And showed thee all the qualities othisle,
The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile.
Cursd be I that did so! All the charms
Of Sycorax toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
For I am all the subjects that you have,
Which first was mine own king; and here you sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The rest o th island.”
4. Sir Gawain, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
For certain, he says, this is a soulless spot,
a ghostly cathedral overgrown with grass,
the kind of kirk where that camouflaged man
might deal in devotions on the devils behalf.
My five senses inform me that Satan himself
Has tricked me in this tryst, attempting to destroy me.
This is a haunted housemay it go to hell.
I never came across a church so cursed.
5. Prospero, The Tempest Act 5
“Mark but the badges of these men, my lords;
Then say if they be true. This misshapen knave,
His mother was a witch, and one so strong
That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
And deal in her command without her power.
These three have robbed me, and this demi-devil
For hes a bastard onehad plotted with them
To take my life. Two of these fellows you
Must know and own; this thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.”
https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/the-tempest/entire-play/
https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/sggk_weston.pdf
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