Monday, February 15, 2016

According to Bradbury, the following authors need to be preserved: Byron, Machiavelli, Gandhi, Lincoln and Jefferson. Why did he select them?Who...

These are all authors who fought for freedom in some way. What's more, they helped to define it for the modern world. Some defined it literally, like Jefferson. Others did so symbolically, like Lincoln with his sacrifice. Gandhi offers a model for action, and so on.Who else would I add? Ben Franklin. Thomas Paine. Fredrick Douglass.

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In Act III, scene 2, why may the establishment of Claudius's guilt be considered the crisis of the revenge plot?

The crisis of a drama usually proceeds and leads to the climax.  In Shakespeare's Hamlet , the proof that Claudius is guilty...