<span>In the passage Twain is using the literary technique of dialect, to tell us subtly about the background and race of the speaker. </span>
In Shakespeare’s time people believed in witches. They were people who had made a pact with the Devil in exchange for supernatural powers. If your cow was ill, it was easy to decide it had been cursed. If there was plague in your village, it was because of a witch. If the beans didn’t grow, it was because of a witch. Witches might have a familiar – a pet, or a toad, or a bird – which was supposed to be a demon advisor. People accused of being witches tended to be old, poor, single women. It is at this time that the idea of witches riding around on broomsticks (a common household implement in Elizabethan England) becomes popular.
There are lots of ways to test for a witch. A common way was to use a ducking stool, or just to tie them up, and duck the accused under water in a pond or river. If she floated, she was a witch. If she didn’t, she was innocent. She probably drowned. Anyone who floated was then burnt at the stake. It was legal to kill witches because of the Witchcraft Act passed in 1563, which set out steps to take against witches who used spirits to kill people.
King James I became king in 1603. He was particularly superstitious about witches and even wrote a book on the subject. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth especially to appeal to James – it has witches and is set in Scotland, where he was already king. The three witches in Macbeth manipulate the characters into disaster, and cast spells to destroy lives. Other magic beings, the fairies, appear in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elizabethans thought fairies played tricks on innocent people – just as they do in the play.
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Can't be heard
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The prefix in- means not, and "audible" basically means hearable. Put them together and you get not hearable, or can't be heard!
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The point of view of the author establishes that humans are the biggest threat to sea otters because they endanger the environment of the sea otters and don't rebuild it.
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First of all, if we understand the author's perspective we can see that he claims sea otters have lived in environments with strong human influence. That has made them look for their own space and to migrate to look for places where they can live. Making them run risks in a journey and clashing with other species, as well as with them. Factories, immoderate logging, hunting, breaking of the food chain. Humans have had a very large and negative impact on them, without doing enough efforts to fix their effects on the sea otter's habitats.
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"And summer's lease hath all too short a date" and "Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st"
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