ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

PLAY BY SAKESPEAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis, ” how is Adonis killed?
A
In a hunting accident
B
By Venus
C
By execution
D
By old age
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -One day Venus dreamed that Adonis had an accident while hunting. She rushed to try to prevent him from going off to hunt, but Adonis ignored her. He thought Venus was crazy to believe in such dreams. Unfortunately, Venus’s dream came true: during the hunt, a wild pig with large tusks killed Adonis.

Detailed explanation-2: -He doesn’t spear it well enough, though, and the boar jabs Adonis with his tusks. Venus hears Adonis’s death groans and hurries back to him – but it’s too late. The goddess is crazy sad. She turns Adonis’s blood into a bright red flower called an anemone to honor him.

Detailed explanation-3: -Venus and Adonis, Greek Mythology’s most beautiful couple are proof that sometimes even gods cannot save their loved ones from fate. After meeting each other, Venus and Adonis fell passionately in love and stayed together till death did them apart.

Detailed explanation-4: -Venus was playing with her son Cupid in the woods and was punctured in the chest by one of his arrows. The wound was deeper than she thought, and before it healed she witnessed Adonis. She immediately fell passionately in love with him and forgot about her other lovers and her life on Olympus.

Detailed explanation-5: -For Aphrodite the kiss-even though he is now not alive-gives delight, but he does not know, Adonis does not, that she, as he dies, has just kissed him.

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