LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Question
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In Friedrich von Schiller’s “The Death of Wallenstein, ” why does Butler choose to kill Wallenstein?
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Loyalty to the emperor
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Revenge
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Octavio Piccolomini told him to do so.
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He’s upset about Max. and Thekla marrying and taking his dukedom.
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It’s not a choiceso much as it is self-defense.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -There, on February 25, he, Trčka, Ilow, and other officers were murdered by soldiers under the command of the Irish general Walter Butler and the Scots colonels Walter Leslie and John Gordon. An English captain, Walter Devereux, ran his halberd through Wallenstein, who, roused from sleep, asked in vain for quarter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Definitions of Wallenstein. Austrian general who fought for the Hapsburgs during the Thirty Years’ War (1583-1634) synonyms: Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein. example of: full general, general. a general officer of the highest rank.
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