english writing homework the is a short answer and essay ---- i need it in 4 hours -----

II.             SHORT ANSWER (6 points).  Briefly answer TWO of the following questions.  Your answer should be a no more than a few sentences in length. 

  

a)     How does the Wife of Bath’s tale meet the definition of a heroic quest romance? 

b)    The Wife Bath says that she has experienced the “woe that is in marriage.”  What does she mean?   

c)     Symbolic hierarchies get overthrown in the middle acts of a romantic comedy.  Tell how this is so in Twelfth Night.  How do you see the hierarchies get restored in the end? 

     

III.           CLOSE READING/ PASSAGE EXPLICATION AND ANALYSIS  

  

2 points for each correct identification; 10; 20 possible points for each paragraph-length analysis; 50 points total.)  

  

For  each  of the following passages, identify the speaker and the work from which it comes.  If you do not know the name of the speaker, briefly describe the speaker (for example, “the narrator” or something like “Olivia’s steward”).  Then, chose TWO of the passages and write a substantial paragraph for each like we practiced in class. Identify the passage's relation to the plot and to larger themes within the work.  If relevant, identify the passage's literary technique (that is, the use of any poetic forms, metaphors or similes, turns in the narration, and so forth).  Any translations in brackets are my own. 

  

             

  

  

  

  

  

1.         BOTTOM 

There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and  Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must  draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies  cannot abide. How answer you that? 

  

  

SNOUT 

By'r lakin, a parlous fear. 

  

STARVELING 

I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done. 

This character is Tthee tailor who plays Thisbe’s mother for Theseus’s marriage celebration. 

  

BOTTOM 

Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.  Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to  say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that  Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more  better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not  Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them  out of fear. 

  

QUINCE 

Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be  written in eight and six. 

  

BOTTOM 

No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight. 

  

  

  

2.         You shall not rise from your bed; I direct you better: 

I shall hem and hold you on either hand, 

And keep company awhile with my captive knight…. 

Your honor, your courtesy are highest acclaimed 

By lords and by ladies, y all living men; 

And lo! We are alone here, and left to ourselves; 

My lord and his liegemen are long departed, 

The household asleep, my handmaids too, 

The door drawn, and held by a well-driven bolt, 

And since I have in this house him whom all love, 

I shall while the time away with mirthful speech  

at will. 

My body is here at hand 

your each wish to fulfill; 

Your servant to command 

I am, and shall be still. 

  

  

  

3.         Make me a willow cabin at your gate,  And call upon my soul within the house;  Write loyal cantons [songs] of contemned [condemned] love  And sing them loud even in the dead of night;  Halloo your name to the reverberate [echoing] hills  And make the babbling gossip of the air   Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest  Between the elements of air and earth,  But you should pity me! 

  

  

  

  

5.         Thou woldest make me kisse thyn olde breech [breeches, or pants], 

And swere it were a relik of a seint, 

Though it were with thy fundement [rectum] depeint [stained]. 

But by the croys [cross]which that Seint Eleyne fond [found], 

I wolde I hadde thy coillons [testicles] in myn hond [hand] 

In stede of relikes or of seintuarie [holy things]. 

Lat cutte hem of!  I wol thee helpe hem carie; [Have them cut off! I will help thee carry them] 

They shul be shryned [enshrined] in an hogges tord [turd]! 

  

  

IV.  ESSAY. (32 points)  

  

Answer ONE of the following questions.  You have two possible choices..  Please note that for this essay, you do not need a formal introduction.  And please, please do not conclude with a paragraph that restates what you have already said.  Simply answer the question as best you can in the time that you have. 

  

1.  Festival and revelation in Sir Gawain and Twelfth Night.  In class, we have noted how the idea of the conflict between Carnival vs. Lent is prevalent in Twelfth Night.  Yet in many of the works we have read this semester, pious characters are not necessarily enemies to religious or other festival, and often come to some sort of revelation—some sort of new knowledge that changes them--as they both revel and become introspective as part of various religious or other festival.  For this question, discuss how the seasons shape Sir Gawain’s journey and revelation, including the late December and early January festivals at Arthur’s court and Bercilak’s castle.  Then, discuss how festival (in the form of the pilgrimage to Canterbury and the story-telling contest) shapes the revelations that the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath communicate.  What revelation or revelations can be argued to be framed by festival in Twelfth Night?