LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Question
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She gets married
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She dies
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She stays in the castle
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She moves towns
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Detailed explanation-1: -She leaves her tower, finds a boat upon which she writes her name, and floats down the river to Camelot. She dies before arriving at the palace. Among the knights and ladies who see her is Lancelot, who thinks she is lovely.
Detailed explanation-2: -Part 4: Knowing that it’s game over, the Lady finds a boat by the side of the river and writes her name on it. After looking at Camelot for a while she lies down in the boat and lets it slip downstream. She drifts down the river, singing her final song, and dies before she gets to Camelot.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Lady cannot be permitted to reconcile the dichotomy between her web of reflections and the ‘real’ world, and so she must die.
Detailed explanation-4: -One day The Lady of Shalott steals a glance out of the window at the noble, handsome Sir Lancelot and with that glance the mirror cracks. She escapes her imprisonment in the tower and takes a boat down river to Camelot. At last she can see the world as it truly is.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Lady of Shalott. Leaving the tower she gets into a boat and floats towards Camelot, robed in virginal ‘snowy white’. Sir Lancelot gazes down upon her corpse. Ironically he does not realise the extent of her yearning for him.