Identify the specific context and the significance of the fo…

Identify the specific context and the significance of the following quotation from the Inferno (4-6 good sentences): “Turn your back and keep your eyes shut tight;   for should the Gorgon come and you look at her,   never again would you return to the light.”    “This was my Guide’s command.  And he turned me about    himself, and would not trust my hands alone,    but, with his placed on mine, held my eyes shut. 

Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of t…

Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following quote from Hamlet (4-6 good sentences):    Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven, It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, A brother’s murder.  Pray I can not, Though inclination be as sharp as will.  My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. 

 Describe the speaker, the context, and the significance of…

 Describe the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following lines from Hamlet (4-6 good sentences): It is here, Hamlet; Hamlet thou art slain; No medicine in the world can do thee good, In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenomed: the foul practice Hath turned itself on me; lo, here I lie, Never to rise again: thy mother’s poisoned: I can no more: the king, the king’s to blame.