Question

Answer any four of the following in 30-40 words each:
(a) How is Decius Brutus successful in taking Caesar to the senate inspite of Calpurnia’s efforts to prevent him?
(b) What does the narrator mean when he says, ‘Sebastian Shultz was the game’?
(c) Why didn’t John want to partner Laura Hinkle at the Ouija Board party?
(d) Who does the ‘shattered visage’ in the poem, ‘Ozymandias’, belong to.and why is it ‘half sunk’?
(e) Why did the mariners hang the dead albatross around the Ancient Mariner’s neck?

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) Decius Brutus predicts Calipurnias’s dream as fortunate and a good omen, and tells Caesar that the Senate might change their minds about crowning him King if he didn’t go, thus convincing Caesar to accompany Brutus.

(b) When the narrator says, ‘Sebastian Shultz was the game’ he means to say that Sebastian’s memory was stored in the psycho-drive when he had met with an accident, and it was up to the narrator to rescue him.

(c) John had promised the ghost, Helen that he would dissuade others from using Ouija Boards. By being Laura Hinkle’s partner he would be breaking his promise. Moreover, Laura Hinkle was a flirt and John wanted to avoid her.

(d) The ‘shattered visage’ in the poem, ‘Ozymandias’ belongs to Ozymandias. It is lying in the sand half sunk with a shattered face, ravaged by time.(e) The Ancient Mariner had killed the harmless albatross and due to his evil act the sailors had suffered. So they hung the albatross around the Ancient Mariner’s neck as a mark of punishment to remind him of his sin and make him feel guilty for his evil act.