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The analyses of a text #3
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He and his friend Steerforth stay at his old nurse's Peggotty's hometown.
They visit Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's every night.
Tonight, the narrator founds Steerforth sit before the fire alone in Mr. Peggotty's house which is made of a boat.
Steerforh talks to the protagonist; the narrator finds him in a gloomy mood.
Steerofth fell for the fiance of Mr. Peggotty's nephew and adopted son.
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"You are afraid of nothing else, I think," said I.
"Perhaps not, and yet may have enough to be afraid of too," he answered. "Well! So it goes by! I am not about to be hipped again, David, but I tell you, my good fellow, once more, that it would have been well for me (and for more than me) if I had had a steadfast and judicious father!"
His face was always full of expression, but I never saw it express such a dark ind of earnestness as when he said those words, with his glance bent on the fire.
"So much for that!" he said making as if he tossed something light into the air, with his hand.
" 'Why, being gone, I am a man again,'
like Macbeth. And now for dinner! If I have not (Macbeth-like) broken up the feast with most admired disorder, Daisy[the narrator's alias]."
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "that" refers to."
2. And I'd like to know what is the subject of "being gone," and whether "being one" is a dangling participle phrase.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He and his friend Steerforth stay at his old nurse's Peggotty's hometown.
They visit Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty's every night.
Tonight, the narrator founds Steerforth sit before the fire alone in Mr. Peggotty's house which is made of a boat.
Steerforh talks to the protagonist; the narrator finds him in a gloomy mood.
Steerofth fell for the fiance of Mr. Peggotty's nephew and adopted son.
..............................
"You are afraid of nothing else, I think," said I.
"Perhaps not, and yet may have enough to be afraid of too," he answered. "Well! So it goes by! I am not about to be hipped again, David, but I tell you, my good fellow, once more, that it would have been well for me (and for more than me) if I had had a steadfast and judicious father!"
His face was always full of expression, but I never saw it express such a dark ind of earnestness as when he said those words, with his glance bent on the fire.
"So much for that!" he said making as if he tossed something light into the air, with his hand.
" 'Why, being gone, I am a man again,'
like Macbeth. And now for dinner! If I have not (Macbeth-like) broken up the feast with most admired disorder, Daisy[the narrator's alias]."
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "that" refers to."
2. And I'd like to know what is the subject of "being gone," and whether "being one" is a dangling participle phrase.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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It is not clear from the passage what his difficulty is. ) " That " is whatever he is giving up or getting over. He acts as if he is throwing it away (of course, you cannot physically throw away a feeling).
- It is not clear from the passage what his difficulty is.
- ) " That " is whatever he is giving up or getting over.
- He acts as if he is throwing it away (of course, you cannot physically throw away a feeling).
- " In the play he is referring to, Shakespeare's Macbeth , the line is spoken by Macbeth once the ghost of the man he killed vanishes.
- ) Does that help?
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It is not clear from the passage what his difficulty is. (Love for the girl?)
"That" is whatever he is giving up or getting over. He acts as if he is throwing it away (of course, you cannot physically throw away a feeling).
"Being gone" is short for "that [problem] being gone."
In the play he is referring to, Shakespeare's Macbeth, the line is spoken by Macbeth onc
"That" is whatever he is giving up or getting over. He acts as if he is throwing it away (of course, you cannot physically throw away a feeling).
"Being gone" is short for "that [problem] being gone."
In the play he is referring to, Shakespeare's Macbeth, the line is spoken by Macbeth onc
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