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2,241 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Beebe and Freddy go to see the Emersons, who have just moved in. The house is in a state of disarray, and the visitors have to squeeze past a wardrobe to get inside. George's voice answers Mr. Beebe's greeting, but he does not come down for a while, and Mr. Beebe and Freddy have a chance to look at George's books. ... | [
"It was a Saturday afternoon, gay and brilliant after abundant rains, and\nthe spirit of youth dwelt in it, though the season was now autumn. All\nthat was gracious triumphed. As the motorcars passed through Summer\nStreet they raised only a little dust, and their stench was soon\ndispersed by the wind and replaced... |
2,242 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While having tea with Mrs. Butterworth, Mrs. Honeychurch, and Cecil, Lucy keeps thinking about her reunion with George; nothing went as she had planned. Although she had rehearsed the meeting many times, she was not prepared for a boisterous, cheerful, and naked man. She did not feel in control of the situation. Mrs. B... | [
"How often had Lucy rehearsed this bow, this interview! But she had\nalways rehearsed them indoors, and with certain accessories, which\nsurely we have a right to assume. Who could foretell that she and George\nwould meet in the rout of a civilization, amidst an army of coats\nand collars and boots that lay wounded... |
2,243 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy prepares for the external situation of Sunday, but she avoids self-examination. She met George at the rectory soon after the incident at the lake; the sound of his voice had a strong affect on her, and she longed to be near him. But Lucy has convinced herself that these feelings all come from stress and confusion.... | [
"Of course Miss Bartlett accepted. And, equally of course, she felt sure\nthat she would prove a nuisance, and begged to be given an inferior\nspare room--something with no view, anything. Her love to Lucy. And,\nequally of course, George Emerson could come to tennis on the Sunday\nweek.",
"Lucy faced the situati... |
2,244 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sunday is a beautiful day. Forster prominently mentions a red book lying on the path at Windy Corner; the people inside the house are busy with preparations for church. Only the women are going. The red book, as we will soon learn, is a library book of Cecil's. It is a bad novel called Under a Loggia, and it will soon ... | [
"The Sunday after Miss Bartlett's arrival was a glorious day, like most\nof the days of that year. In the Weald, autumn approached, breaking up\nthe green monotony of summer, touching the parks with the grey bloom of\nmist, the beech-trees with russet, the oak-trees with gold. Up on the\nheights, battalions of blac... |
2,245 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy tries to suppress her feelings. She thinks that she must at all costs rid herself of George and maintain her engagement to Cecil. She calls for Charlotte, and confronts her with the events of the novel. Lucy has correctly deduced that Charlotte must have told Miss Lavish about the kiss in Florence. Now, it becomes... | [
"But Lucy had developed since the spring. That is to say, she was now\nbetter able to stifle the emotions of which the conventions and the\nworld disapprove. Though the danger was greater, she was not shaken by\ndeep sobs. She said to Cecil, \"I am not coming in to tea--tell mother--I\nmust write some letters,\" an... |
2,246 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cecil is horribly hurt, and he wants explanations. Lucy eludes him as long as she can, but finally she tells him many of the things that George has helped her to realize. Cecil is selfish, condescending, and cruel to other human beings. He is barbaric to women, and will not respect Lucy enough to let her decide how to ... | [
"He was bewildered. He had nothing to say. He was not even angry, but\nstood, with a glass of whiskey between his hands, trying to think what\nhad led her to such a conclusion.",
"She had chosen the moment before bed, when, in accordance with their\nbourgeois habit, she always dispensed drinks to the men. Freddy ... |
2,247 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Beebe rides his bicycle to Windy Corner, bringing amusing news. Since the Miss Alans lost Cissie Villa, they have decided to go to Greece instead. He sees Freddy and Cecil first; he does not know that the engagement has been broken off. He speaks to them glowingly of the Miss Alans and their proposed trip. Cecil is... | [
"Windy Corner lay, not on the summit of the ridge, but a few hundred feet\ndown the southern slope, at the springing of one of the great buttresses\nthat supported the hill. On either side of it was a shallow ravine,\nfilled with ferns and pine-trees, and down the ravine on the left ran\nthe highway into the Weald.... |
2,248 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy and Mrs. Honeychurch meet with the Miss Alans at their hotel near Bloomsbury. They discuss making the final preparations for their trip to Greece. Lucy has still told no one of the end of the engagement; this leads to the Honeychurches being forced to tell a few uncomfortable lies. After they leave the Miss Alans,... | [
"The Miss Alans were found in their beloved temperance hotel near\nBloomsbury--a clean, airless establishment much patronized by provincial\nEngland. They always perched there before crossing the great seas,\nand for a week or two would fidget gently over clothes, guide-books,\nmackintosh squares, digestive bread, ... |
2,249 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Forster tells us that the Miss Alans did go to Greece, and beyond. They ended up going around the whole world. But they went without Lucy. We are again in the Pension Bertolini, with Lucy and George. They are in Lucy's old room; George insists it was his, but Lucy remembers that she took old Mr. Emerson's room. She cor... | [
"The Miss Alans did go to Greece, but they went by themselves. They alone\nof this little company will double Malea and plough the waters of the\nSaronic gulf. They alone will visit Athens and Delphi, and either shrine\nof intellectual song--that upon the Acropolis, encircled by blue seas;\nthat under Parnassus, wh... |
2,233 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, and her cousin/traveling companion Charlotte Bartlett, a not-so-young Englishwoman, are in Florence, Italy. They are disappointed in their lodgings at a hotel called The Bertolini, which, despite its promising name, is run by a Cockney landlady. Of particular disturbance is the f... | [
"\"The Signora had no business to do it,\" said Miss Bartlett, \"no business\nat all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead\nof which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way\napart. Oh, Lucy!\"",
"\"And a Cockney, besides!\" said Lucy, who had been further saddened... |
2,234 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Morning in Hotel Bertolini is a very pleasant thing. We're treated to an appropriately pleasant description of the view from its very pleasant windows - presumably the very same windows Charlotte and Lucy now possess. We get a glimpse of actual Italians for the first time; they're depicted as disorderly but good-nature... | [
"It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright\nbare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are\nnot; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport\nin a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to\nfling wide the windows, pinc... |
2,235 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy, it turns out, is a devoted and uniquely talented pianist. We begin to suspect again that there's more to her than meets the eye. Though she's neither a flawless performer nor a dramatically passionate one, she is clearly a remarkable one. On a rainy day at the hotel, she settles in to play, and enters her own pri... | [
"It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered\na more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer\neither deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.\nThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept\nthose whom breeding and intel... |
2,236 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On her scandalous journey alone, Lucy does in fact feel impassioned and emboldened by the Beethoven. The piano always makes her feel like she wants something more than witty or gossipy conversation, so she takes off. What she really wants to do is go on the electric tram , but she knows it's too unladylike. This frustr... | [
"Mr. Beebe was right. Lucy never knew her desires so clearly as after\nmusic. She had not really appreciated the clergyman's wit, nor the\nsuggestive twitterings of Miss Alan. Conversation was tedious; she\nwanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on\nthe wind-swept platform of an elect... |
2,250 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charlotte is surprisingly un-shocked by Lucy's misadventures with George, which Lucy dutifully reports . She and Miss Lavish apparently had their own misadventures on their walk; they were stopped by some army officials, who searched their bags for any provisions. Miss Lavish, never afraid of anything, dealt with them.... | [
"It was a family saying that \"you never knew which way Charlotte Bartlett\nwould turn.\" She was perfectly pleasant and sensible over Lucy's\nadventure, found the abridged account of it quite adequate, and paid\nsuitable tribute to the courtesy of Mr. George Emerson. She and Miss\nLavish had had an adventure also.... |
2,251 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A young and bold Italian, playfully referred to as Phaeton , drives one of two carriages full of our English tourists to their destination, a place in the country called Fiesole. He persuades his passengers to let him bring his "sister"... who's clearly not his sister. We hope. The party, which we know from the last ch... | [
"It was Phaethon who drove them to Fiesole that memorable day, a youth\nall irresponsibility and fire, recklessly urging his master's horses up\nthe stony hill. Mr. Beebe recognized him at once. Neither the Ages of\nFaith nor the Age of Doubt had touched him; he was Phaethon in Tuscany\ndriving a cab. And it was Pe... |
2,252 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chaos breaks out. Everyone is apparently looking for everyone else. Mr. Beebe attempts to organize the party to leave. George is missing. The carriage driver muses to himself about the incapability of the English to understand their own instincts. He muses out loud that bad weather is coming, and that they should leave... | [
"Some complicated game had been playing up and down the hillside all the\nafternoon. What it was and exactly how the players had sided, Lucy\nwas slow to discover. Mr. Eager had met them with a questioning eye.\nCharlotte had repulsed him with much small talk. Mr. Emerson, seeking\nhis son, was told whereabouts to ... |
2,237 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Next, we find ourselves at Windy Corner, Lucy's home back in England. Some time has passed, but we're not sure how much. We are introduced to Freddy and Mrs. Honeychurch, "two pleasant people." Freddy, who is kind of an odd duck, is examining a bone and an anatomy book, while his mother is engaged in a more conventiona... | [
"The drawing-room curtains at Windy Corner had been pulled to meet, for\nthe carpet was new and deserved protection from the August sun. They\nwere heavy curtains, reaching almost to the ground, and the light\nthat filtered through them was subdued and varied. A poet--none was\npresent--might have quoted, \"Life li... |
2,238 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Honeychurch drags Lucy and her "Fiasco" to a neighborhood garden party. Cecil is profoundly unimpressed by country life and says so. Lucy attempts to understand him, something that would surely be difficult for anyone. Now that he's engaged, Cecil's adopted a new persona, that of the naughty man of the world. It's... | [
"A few days after the engagement was announced Mrs. Honeychurch made Lucy\nand her Fiasco come to a little garden-party in the neighbourhood, for\nnaturally she wanted to show people that her daughter was marrying a\npresentable man.",
"Cecil was more than presentable; he looked distinguished, and it was\nvery pl... |
2,239 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A little background on the Honeychurches: the late Mr. Honeychurch moved to Summer Street and built his house before it became fashionable, and thus he and his family were accepted by the wealthy newcomers when they arrived. Thus did the Honeychurch family become real members of the slightly higher social class that st... | [
"The society out of which Cecil proposed to rescue Lucy was perhaps no\nvery splendid affair, yet it was more splendid than her antecedents\nentitled her to. Her father, a prosperous local solicitor, had built\nWindy Corner, as a speculation at the time the district was opening up,\nand, falling in love with his ow... |
2,240 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The negotiations between the Emersons and Sir Harry go well, and their move-in is scheduled. Everyone is pleased, except for Miss Alan, Miss Alan, and Lucy - the old ladies blame the young one for their plans falling through. Mr. Beebe is particularly pleased, and insists that Freddy should go and call on the Emersons ... | [
"The Comic Muse, though able to look after her own interests, did not\ndisdain the assistance of Mr. Vyse. His idea of bringing the Emersons to\nWindy Corner struck her as decidedly good, and she carried through the\nnegotiations without a hitch. Sir Harry Otway signed the agreement,\nmet Mr. Emerson, who was duly ... |
2,241 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's a beautiful Saturday in Summer Street, and Mr. Beebe and Freddy decide to visit the Emersons. Freddy is skeptical. We observe the Emerson abode with Freddy and Mr. Beebe. The house is mostly populated with books; George's taste is unsurprisingly somewhat avant-garde. A quote is written on the wardrobe. It reads "M... | [
"It was a Saturday afternoon, gay and brilliant after abundant rains, and\nthe spirit of youth dwelt in it, though the season was now autumn. All\nthat was gracious triumphed. As the motorcars passed through Summer\nStreet they raised only a little dust, and their stench was soon\ndispersed by the wind and replaced... |
2,242 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy is unhappy with the way her reunion with George went off. She had rehearsed the moment over and over in her mind but, as she observes, these things rarely turn out the way we plan them to. As Lucy ponders this dilemma, she is with Mrs. Honeychurch and Cecil, visiting an old friend, Mrs. Butterworth. Cecil hates vi... | [
"How often had Lucy rehearsed this bow, this interview! But she had\nalways rehearsed them indoors, and with certain accessories, which\nsurely we have a right to assume. Who could foretell that she and George\nwould meet in the rout of a civilization, amidst an army of coats\nand collars and boots that lay wounded... |
2,243 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The plans are set - Charlotte will come to stay at Windy Corner, and George will come to play tennis with Freddy on Sunday. Lucy feels disaster approaching. Lucy's feelings for George are complicated; he makes her nervous, but she wants to be near him. The narrator wisely notes that it's obvious to us that Lucy is in l... | [
"Of course Miss Bartlett accepted. And, equally of course, she felt sure\nthat she would prove a nuisance, and begged to be given an inferior\nspare room--something with no view, anything. Her love to Lucy. And,\nequally of course, George Emerson could come to tennis on the Sunday\nweek.",
"Lucy faced the situati... |
2,244 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's a beautiful Sunday, and the Honeychurch women, plus Minnie Beebe and Charlotte, are on their way to church. Afterwards, they run in to the Emersons outside Cissie Villa. Lucy introduces Mrs. Honeychurch to Mr. Emerson and George. They discuss the predicament of the Miss Alans; Mr. Emerson feels bad, but George doe... | [
"The Sunday after Miss Bartlett's arrival was a glorious day, like most\nof the days of that year. In the Weald, autumn approached, breaking up\nthe green monotony of summer, touching the parks with the grey bloom of\nmist, the beech-trees with russet, the oak-trees with gold. Up on the\nheights, battalions of blac... |
2,245 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy realizes that Charlotte told Miss Lavish about the kiss, and confronts her cousin about it. Charlotte, embarrassed and upset, admits that she did. Lucy tells her about Kiss #2, then asks Charlotte for help talking to George. This time, though, Charlotte lamely backs out - feeling helpless and exposed, she asks Luc... | [
"But Lucy had developed since the spring. That is to say, she was now\nbetter able to stifle the emotions of which the conventions and the\nworld disapprove. Though the danger was greater, she was not shaken by\ndeep sobs. She said to Cecil, \"I am not coming in to tea--tell mother--I\nmust write some letters,\" an... |
2,246 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter details the somewhat awkward breakup of Lucy and Cecil. Surprisingly, Cecil takes it well. So well, in fact, that Lucy is irritated. Lucy allows herself to get upset, and, seeking an argument, attacks Cecil's attitude and opinions directly. At this last desperate moment, he actually feels something real an... | [
"He was bewildered. He had nothing to say. He was not even angry, but\nstood, with a glass of whiskey between his hands, trying to think what\nhad led her to such a conclusion.",
"She had chosen the moment before bed, when, in accordance with their\nbourgeois habit, she always dispensed drinks to the men. Freddy ... |
2,247 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Beebe, blissfully unaware of what has transpired overnight at Windy Corner, is on his way there with a letter from the Miss Alans. The two elderly sisters are planning a trip to Greece, and he can't wait to tell Lucy about it. On his way into the house, Mr. Beebe encounters Cecil and Freddy. Cecil is clearly depart... | [
"Windy Corner lay, not on the summit of the ridge, but a few hundred feet\ndown the southern slope, at the springing of one of the great buttresses\nthat supported the hill. On either side of it was a shallow ravine,\nfilled with ferns and pine-trees, and down the ravine on the left ran\nthe highway into the Weald.... |
2,248 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Preparations are underway for the Greek voyage, and Lucy seems to have patched things up with the Miss Alans. She and her mother visit the two sisters in London. Lucy makes no comment on her breakup with Cecil, and the Miss Alans suffer under the misapprehension that the couple is still together. After mother and daugh... | [
"The Miss Alans were found in their beloved temperance hotel near\nBloomsbury--a clean, airless establishment much patronized by provincial\nEngland. They always perched there before crossing the great seas,\nand for a week or two would fidget gently over clothes, guide-books,\nmackintosh squares, digestive bread, ... |
2,249 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The sisters Alan end up going on their Greek adventure, but without Lucy. Instead of following them there, the narrator takes us back to Italy - in fact, back to the good old Pension Bertolini. They're even in the same room with a view that Lucy took over from Mr. Emerson. George and Lucy talk lovingly about nothing as... | [
"The Miss Alans did go to Greece, but they went by themselves. They alone\nof this little company will double Malea and plough the waters of the\nSaronic gulf. They alone will visit Athens and Delphi, and either shrine\nof intellectual song--that upon the Acropolis, encircled by blue seas;\nthat under Parnassus, wh... |
2,253 | 2641_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Lucy Honeychurch is a somewhat naive young woman sent on holiday to Italy under the charge of her older cousin, Miss Charlotte Bartlett. The two are staying at the Bertolini Pension in Florence. The story opens around the dinner table at the pension, where Lucy and her cousin lament that though promised rooms in t... | [
"\"The Signora had no business to do it,\" said Miss Bartlett, \"no business\nat all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead\nof which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way\napart. Oh, Lucy!\"",
"\"And a Cockney, besides!\" said Lucy, who had been further saddened... |
2,254 | 2641_chapters_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy decides to accompany Charlotte for the day rather than go on an outing with Mr. Beebe and the Emersons, as she feels confused by the odd situation with George. In the Piazza Signoria , they find Miss Lavish, who as usual is exulting in her idea of the real Italy and making snide remarks about English tourists. Luc... | [
"It was a family saying that \"you never knew which way Charlotte Bartlett\nwould turn.\" She was perfectly pleasant and sensible over Lucy's\nadventure, found the abridged account of it quite adequate, and paid\nsuitable tribute to the courtesy of Mr. George Emerson. She and Miss\nLavish had had an adventure also.... |
2,255 | 2641_chapters_8-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Most of the second half of the book takes place around the Honeychurch residence at Windy Corner, on Summer Street in a small country town in the Surrey hills of England. It is a wealthy town filled with members of the leisure class. Lucy has been home from Italy for a week. A young man named Cecil Vyse, of the Vyse fa... | [
"The drawing-room curtains at Windy Corner had been pulled to meet, for\nthe carpet was new and deserved protection from the August sun. They\nwere heavy curtains, reaching almost to the ground, and the light\nthat filtered through them was subdued and varied. A poet--none was\npresent--might have quoted, \"Life li... |
2,256 | 2641_chapters_11-14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy goes to stay with Cecil's family in London, where she receives a letter from Charlotte, forwarded from Windy Corner. Charlotte has found out that the Emersons are moving to Summer Street. Lucy and Charlotte had a falling-out in Rome and have not been on such good terms since then. Charlotte wants Lucy to tell her ... | [
"The Comic Muse, though able to look after her own interests, did not\ndisdain the assistance of Mr. Vyse. His idea of bringing the Emersons to\nWindy Corner struck her as decidedly good, and she carried through the\nnegotiations without a hitch. Sir Harry Otway signed the agreement,\nmet Mr. Emerson, who was duly ... |
2,257 | 2641_chapters_15-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's Sunday and the Honeychurches get ready to go to church. After church, Lucy sees the Emersons smoking in their garden. Lucy formally introduces them to her mother, and the Emersons say they are thinking of leaving because they have heard that the Miss Alans were planning to live there. George says that there is no ... | [
"The Sunday after Miss Bartlett's arrival was a glorious day, like most\nof the days of that year. In the Weald, autumn approached, breaking up\nthe green monotony of summer, touching the parks with the grey bloom of\nmist, the beech-trees with russet, the oak-trees with gold. Up on the\nheights, battalions of blac... |
2,258 | 2641_chapters_18-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Beebe receives a letter from the Miss Alans stating that they have decided to travel to Greece and perhaps Constantinople, and the thought of the two spinsters amuses him so much that he pays a call at Windy Corner to tell Lucy. On the road, he passes Cecil and Freddy, on their way to bring Cecil to the station. Fr... | [
"Windy Corner lay, not on the summit of the ridge, but a few hundred feet\ndown the southern slope, at the springing of one of the great buttresses\nthat supported the hill. On either side of it was a shallow ravine,\nfilled with ferns and pine-trees, and down the ravine on the left ran\nthe highway into the Weald.... |
2,233 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 1 opens at the Pension Bertolini, a small, English-owned hotel in Florence, Italy. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl, and her older, unmarried cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett, have just arrived at the hotel and are disappointed to find that their rooms do not have a view of the Arno River as promi... | [
"\"The Signora had no business to do it,\" said Miss Bartlett, \"no business\nat all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead\nof which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way\napart. Oh, Lucy!\"",
"\"And a Cockney, besides!\" said Lucy, who had been further saddened... |
2,234 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 2 opens the following day. Lucy awakens to a beautiful view of Florence, but Charlotte enters her room and scolds her for leaning out of the window while not yet fully dressed. At breakfast, they are given advice by a clever older lady named Miss Eleanor Lavish. Miss Lavish offers to take Lucy to see the Santa ... | [
"It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright\nbare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are\nnot; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport\nin a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to\nfling wide the windows, pinc... |
2,235 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 3 opens on a rainy afternoon at the Bertolini. Mr. Beebe watches Lucy play the piano and is impressed. He recalls having seen her play once before, back in England. As Lucy finishes, he remarks, "If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her. Mr. Beebe an... | [
"It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered\na more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer\neither deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.\nThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept\nthose whom breeding and intel... |
2,236 | 2641_part_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 4 begins as Lucy wanders outside of the pension alone. She longs for adventure, not gossip with Miss Alan or witty exchanges with Mr. Beebe. What she really wants is to take a ride on the electric tram, but knowing that it would be considered unladylike, Lucy decides to buy some photographs instead. Still feeli... | [
"Mr. Beebe was right. Lucy never knew her desires so clearly as after\nmusic. She had not really appreciated the clergyman's wit, nor the\nsuggestive twitterings of Miss Alan. Conversation was tedious; she\nwanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on\nthe wind-swept platform of an elect... |
2,237 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Mediaeval," opens at Lucy's family home outside of London, a country estate called Windy Corner. Lucy's mother, Mrs. Honeychurch, and her brother Freddy are waiting in the drawing-room as Lucy is being proposed to by Cecil Vyse. It is revealed that during her time in Rome, Lucy and Cecil became quite close and Cecil h... | [
"The drawing-room curtains at Windy Corner had been pulled to meet, for\nthe carpet was new and deserved protection from the August sun. They\nwere heavy curtains, reaching almost to the ground, and the light\nthat filtered through them was subdued and varied. A poet--none was\npresent--might have quoted, \"Life li... |
2,238 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 9 begins a few days after the engagement, as Lucy and Cecil are invited to a garden-party in the neighborhood. Cecil's snobbery becomes evident at the gathering; he is very annoyed at being congratulated, and finds the country society vulgar. They begin talking of Mr. Beebe, and Lucy realizes that Cecil doesn't... | [
"A few days after the engagement was announced Mrs. Honeychurch made Lucy\nand her Fiasco come to a little garden-party in the neighbourhood, for\nnaturally she wanted to show people that her daughter was marrying a\npresentable man.",
"Cecil was more than presentable; he looked distinguished, and it was\nvery pl... |
2,239 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 10 explains some of the history of the Honeychurch family. Lucy's father had been a prosperous local lawyer who built Windy Corner before the area had been developed. When wealthy Londoners moved to the area and built their mansions, they mistook the Honeychurches for country aristocrats instead of the nouveau ... | [
"The society out of which Cecil proposed to rescue Lucy was perhaps no\nvery splendid affair, yet it was more splendid than her antecedents\nentitled her to. Her father, a prosperous local solicitor, had built\nWindy Corner, as a speculation at the time the district was opening up,\nand, falling in love with his ow... |
2,240 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 11 is set in London at the apartment of Cecil's mother, Mrs. Vyse, where Lucy and Cecil have gone for a visit. While there, Lucy receives a letter from Charlotte expressing alarm about the arrival of George to Lucy's neighborhood and advising her to tell her mother and Cecil everything. The letter annoys Lucy, ... | [
"The Comic Muse, though able to look after her own interests, did not\ndisdain the assistance of Mr. Vyse. His idea of bringing the Emersons to\nWindy Corner struck her as decidedly good, and she carried through the\nnegotiations without a hitch. Sir Harry Otway signed the agreement,\nmet Mr. Emerson, who was duly ... |
2,241 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter 12, Freddy and Mr. Beebe pay a visit to the Emersons. Mr. Beebe notes and comments on the books they have brought, which include poetry by Byron, A. E. Housman's poetry collection A Shropshire Lad, Samuel Butler's novel, The Way of All Flesh, books of Roman history by Edward Gibbon, and philosophy books by S... | [
"It was a Saturday afternoon, gay and brilliant after abundant rains, and\nthe spirit of youth dwelt in it, though the season was now autumn. All\nthat was gracious triumphed. As the motorcars passed through Summer\nStreet they raised only a little dust, and their stench was soon\ndispersed by the wind and replaced... |
2,242 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy wonders over the extraordinary encounter with George. She had not been prepared at all for being greeted by a half-naked George at the pond, and it has destroyed all her plans for greeting him in a proper way. At tea with a neighbor, Cecil is snobbish to the point of being uncivil, and Mrs. Honeychurch notices. Lu... | [
"How often had Lucy rehearsed this bow, this interview! But she had\nalways rehearsed them indoors, and with certain accessories, which\nsurely we have a right to assume. Who could foretell that she and George\nwould meet in the rout of a civilization, amidst an army of coats\nand collars and boots that lay wounded... |
2,243 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy is left to face the situation bravely. She has seen George Emerson again. His voice moved her deeply and she wished to remain near him, but rather than recognize that she is in love with him, Lucy tells herself it is a trick of the nerves. The house is full: Charlotte has arrived and is quickly on everyone's nerve... | [
"Of course Miss Bartlett accepted. And, equally of course, she felt sure\nthat she would prove a nuisance, and begged to be given an inferior\nspare room--something with no view, anything. Her love to Lucy. And,\nequally of course, George Emerson could come to tennis on the Sunday\nweek.",
"Lucy faced the situati... |
2,244 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 15, as the day has arrived when George will come for tennis at Windy Corner. As the Honeychurches prepare for a church, a red book lies outside in the garden, left there by Cecil. The book, titled Under a Loggia, will soon prove important to the plot. After church, Lucy sees the Emersons, who have been offended... | [
"The Sunday after Miss Bartlett's arrival was a glorious day, like most\nof the days of that year. In the Weald, autumn approached, breaking up\nthe green monotony of summer, touching the parks with the grey bloom of\nmist, the beech-trees with russet, the oak-trees with gold. Up on the\nheights, battalions of blac... |
2,245 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucy lies to George. She has become much better than before at repressing feelings in order to conform to what is proper and expected, and because she believes that her duty is to Cecil, she is able to tell herself that she never cared anything about George at all. The only thing to be done, she decides, it to turn him... | [
"But Lucy had developed since the spring. That is to say, she was now\nbetter able to stifle the emotions of which the conventions and the\nworld disapprove. Though the danger was greater, she was not shaken by\ndeep sobs. She said to Cecil, \"I am not coming in to tea--tell mother--I\nmust write some letters,\" an... |
2,246 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cecil is bewildered and hurt, and Lucy tries to explain her feelings. As Lucy asserts herself, it seems to Cecil that she has changed from a Leonardo painting to a living woman and become even more real and desirable. He exclaims that he loves her and presses her to tell why she doesn't love him. Lucy repeats to him th... | [
"He was bewildered. He had nothing to say. He was not even angry, but\nstood, with a glass of whiskey between his hands, trying to think what\nhad led her to such a conclusion.",
"She had chosen the moment before bed, when, in accordance with their\nbourgeois habit, she always dispensed drinks to the men. Freddy ... |
2,247 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter 18, Lucy lies to everyone else in her life: Mr. Beebe, Mrs. Honeychurch, Freddy, and the servants, about her broken engagement and her true feelings for George. As the chapter opens, it is a stormy day, befitting the turmoil in Lucy's life. Mr. Beebe, still unaware of the broken engagement, is coming to Wind... | [
"Windy Corner lay, not on the summit of the ridge, but a few hundred feet\ndown the southern slope, at the springing of one of the great buttresses\nthat supported the hill. On either side of it was a shallow ravine,\nfilled with ferns and pine-trees, and down the ravine on the left ran\nthe highway into the Weald.... |
2,248 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Chapter 19, Lucy and her mother go to London to visit the Miss Alans and make arrangements for the trip. The Miss Alans express surprise that Cecil is allowing her to make the trip and that he will not even be present to see her off. Still intent on keeping the broken engagement a secret until she has left England, ... | [
"The Miss Alans were found in their beloved temperance hotel near\nBloomsbury--a clean, airless establishment much patronized by provincial\nEngland. They always perched there before crossing the great seas,\nand for a week or two would fidget gently over clothes, guide-books,\nmackintosh squares, digestive bread, ... |
2,249 | 2641_part_2,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 20 is titled "The End of the Middle Ages" because it marks the beginning of Lucy's Renaissance, her rebirth as a happily married woman. The Miss Alans go to Greece, but they go alone. Lucy and George, newly married, go back to the Pension Bertolini in Florence, where they first met. George has his head in Lucy'... | [
"The Miss Alans did go to Greece, but they went by themselves. They alone\nof this little company will double Malea and plough the waters of the\nSaronic gulf. They alone will visit Athens and Delphi, and either shrine\nof intellectual song--that upon the Acropolis, encircled by blue seas;\nthat under Parnassus, wh... |
2,259 | 2153_chapters_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening in early May, crowds of factory workers and their families walk home after a holiday in the quiet and serene Green Heys Fields, just outside of Manchester. Among the groups of people, two men and their wives meet and exchange greetings of old friendship. The first man, John Barton, accompanies his tearful p... | [
"I. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.",
"\"Oh! 't is hard, 't is hard to be working\n The whole of the live-long day,\n When all the neighbours about one\n Are off to their jaunts and play.",
"\"There's Richard he carries his baby,\n And Mary takes little Jane,\n And lovingly they'll be ... |
2,260 | 2153_chapters_6-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | John Carson's mill is well-insured, so the fire makes little difference to his livelihood. In fact, the fire provides a perfect excuse for him to purchase new machinery and enjoy some leisure time with his family. However, Carson's workers, including George Wilson, are unemployed and driven deeper into poverty. While G... | [
"VI. POVERTY AND DEATH.",
"\"How little can the rich man know\n Of what the poor man feels,\n When Want, like some dark demon foe,\n Nearer and nearer steals!",
"\"HE never tramp'd the weary round,\n A stroke of work to gain,\n And sicken'd at the dreaded sound\n Which t... |
2,261 | 2153_chapters_11-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | John immediately regrets his treatment of Esther and looks for her night after night to no avail. He is worried that Mary has become too much like her aunt and decides that it is time for his daughter to marry. However, Jem Wilson is set to marry Molly Gibson, and John scolds Mary for missing her chance with him. Mary,... | [
"XI. MR. CARSON'S INTENTIONS REVEALED.",
"\"O Mary, canst thou wreck his peace,\n Wha for thy sake wad gladly die?\n Or canst thou break that heart of his,\n Whase only fault is loving thee?\"\n --BURNS.",
"\"I can like of the wealth, I must confess,\n Yet mor... |
2,262 | 2153_chapters_16-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The deputation goes to meet the mill-owners and address the striking workers' grievances. The owners are divided amongst themselves, some arguing for concession, and some who want to refuse the workers' demands. While the owners are discussing their plan of action amongst themselves, Harry Carson jumps up and declares ... | [
"XVI. MEETING BETWEEN MASTERS AND WORKMEN.",
"\"Not for a moment take the scorner's chair;\n While seated there, thou know'st not how a word,\n A tone, a look, may gall thy brother's heart,\n And make him turn in bitterness against thee.\"\n --\"LOVE-TRU... |
2,263 | 2153_chapters_26-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary takes her first train ride to Liverpool early Monday morning and overhears other passengers discussing the Assize courts. Two clerks chat about Jem's case and state that the outcome is almost certain, although juries never like to convict on circumstantial evidence. Once Mary is in Liverpool, she finds Mrs. Jones'... | [
"XXVI. THE JOURNEY TO LIVERPOOL.",
"\"Like a bark upon the sea,\n Life is floating over death;\n Above, below, encircling thee,\n Danger lurks in every breath.",
"\"Parted art thou from the grave\n Only by a plank most frail;\n Tossed upon the restless wave,\n Sport of ev... |
2,264 | 2153_chapters_31-35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary ends up at the home of Ben Sturgis, one of the sailors who took her to the John Cropper. When Mary enters the house, she grows pale and faints to the floor. Mrs. Sturgis takes care of her, but cannot help wondering if Mary is a fallen woman. Mary contradicts the older woman's suspicions and drinks her tea, lost in... | [
"XXXI. HOW MARY PASSED THE NIGHT.",
"\"To think\n That all this long interminable night,\n Which I have passed in thinking on two words--\n 'Guilty'--'Not Guilty!'--like one happy moment\n O'er many a head hath flown unheeded by;\n O'er happy sleepers dreaming in their bliss\n Of b... |
2,265 | 2153_chapters_36-38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary's family and friends make funeral arrangements without bothering Mary, who is comforted by Margaret, Job, Mrs. Wilson and Jem. Jem tells his mother that Barton is dead, but keeps the older man's confession a secret. Jem finds his former master, Mr. Duncombe, who believes in Jem's innocence and secures him a job in... | [
"XXXVI. JEM'S INTERVIEW WITH MR. DUNCOMBE.",
"\"The first dark day of nothingness,\n The last of danger and distress.\"\n --BYRON.",
"Although Mary had hardly been conscious of her thoughts, and it had\nbeen more like a secret instinct informing her soul, than the res... |
2,266 | 1797_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Coriolanus opens in Rome, with a group of citizens who are considering an uprising against the state because of the high price, and the scarcity, of grain. They believe that Caius Martius, one of the most distinguished generals of the state, is their main enemy; if they kill him, they believe they will get what they wa... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.\nRome. A street",
"Enter a company of mutinous citizens, with staves, clubs, and\nother weapons",
"FIRST CITIZEN. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.\n ALL. Speak, speak.\n FIRST CITIZEN. You are all resolv'd rather to die than to\nfamish?\n ALL. Resolv'd, resolv'd.\n FIRST CITIZE... |
2,267 | 1797_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Menenius is talking with the two tribunes, Brutus and Sicinius; he knows that they and the people dislike Coriolanus, despite his triumphs and distinguished service. But Menenius also tells them that Coriolanus is a good man, and leads a blameless life; still, they do not seem to change their view of him. They still ch... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter MENENIUS, with the two Tribunes of the people, SICINIUS and\nBRUTUS",
"MENENIUS. The augurer tells me we shall have news tonight. BRUTUS. Good or bad? MENENIUS. Not according to the prayer of the people, for they love not Marcius. SICINIUS. Nature teaches beasts ... |
2,268 | 1797_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lartius informs Coriolanus that Tullus Aufidius and the Volscians have raised a new army against them; but Cominius thinks that they are still too weak to make an attack on Rome. Aufidius is at Antium, they tell Coriolanus, and Coriolanus expresses desire to see him there so that they can fight once again. Then, the tr... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.\nRome. A street",
"Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, all the GENTRY, COMINIUS,\nTITUS LARTIUS, and other SENATORS",
"CORIOLANUS. Tullus Aufidius, then, had made new head? LARTIUS. He had, my lord; and that it was which caus'd\n Our swifter composition. CORIOLANUS. So then the Volsces st... |
2,269 | 1797_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Coriolanus is saying farewell to Virgilia, Volumnia, Menenius, Cominius, and other various members of the nobility; he tells them to keep their tears, and tells his mother to keep her strength about her. Coriolanus thinks that Rome will learn to appreciate him when he is gone, though he seems to have no ideas about ret... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.\nRome. Before a gate of the city",
"Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS,\nwith the young NOBILITY of Rome",
"CORIOLANUS. Come, leave your tears; a brief farewell. The beast\n With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,\n Where is your ancient courage? You were us'd\n... |
2,270 | 1797_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Menenius speaks to Cominius and the two tribunes; they are asking him to go and plead with Coriolanus, though Menenius knows that if Coriolanus had previously ignored Cominius' pleas, he will be of no use to them. Menenius says that the tribunes, who arranged for him to get thrown out of the city, should be the ones to... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS and BRUTUS, the two Tribunes,\nwith others",
"MENENIUS. No, I'll not go. You hear what he hath said\n Which was sometime his general, who lov'd him\n In a most dear particular. He call'd me father;\n But what o' that? Go, you ... |
2,271 | 1797_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Welcome to the streets of Rome, where a mob of starving plebeians are in full on riot mode. Rome is experiencing a famine and the patricians are hogging all the food. We find out the patricians in the Senate have set the price of grain so high that the plebeians can't afford it. Enemy #1 on the plebeians' list is a sno... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.\nRome. A street",
"Enter a company of mutinous citizens, with staves, clubs, and\nother weapons",
"FIRST CITIZEN. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.\n ALL. Speak, speak.\n FIRST CITIZEN. You are all resolv'd rather to die than to\nfamish?\n ALL. Resolv'd, resolv'd.\n FIRST CITIZE... |
2,272 | 1797_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now we head over to a Volscian city called Corioles. Tullus Aufidius is at the Senate House talking to the Volscian senators about their military plans. Aufidius reports that Rome already knows they're planning an attack, so there goes the element of surprise. Plus, Roman soldiers may be headed to Corioles right now as... | [
"SCENE II.\nCorioli. The Senate House.",
"Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS with SENATORS of Corioli",
"FIRST SENATOR. So, your opinion is, Aufidius,\n That they of Rome are ent'red in our counsels\n And know how we proceed. AUFIDIUS. Is it not yours? What ever have been thought on in this state\n That could be br... |
2,273 | 1797_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Rome, we get to meet Caius Martius' dysfunctional family. His mom and his wife are chillaxing with their sewing needles and thread, trying to pass the time while their favorite guy in the world is away. Apparently, there's some tension, because the first thing out of Volumnia's mouth is that her daughter-in-law... | [
"SCENE III.\nRome. MARCIUS' house",
"Enter VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA, mother and wife to MARCIUS;\nthey set them down on two low stools and sew",
"VOLUMNIA. I pray you, daughter, sing, or express yourself in a\nmore\n comfortable sort. If my son were my husband, I should\nfreelier\n rejoice in that absence wh... |
2,274 | 1797_act_1,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cut to the city of Corioles, where Caius Martius and Titus Lartius take a little break from battering the city. A group of Volscian Senators show up on the city's walls and start talking trash about how their military leader, Tullus Aufidius, is going to show up any minute and make the Romans wish they had never come h... | [
"SCENE IV.\nBefore Corioli",
"Enter MARCIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, with drum and colours,\nwith CAPTAINS and soldiers. To them a MESSENGER",
"MARCIUS. Yonder comes news; a wager- they have met.\n LARTIUS. My horse to yours- no.\n MARCIUS. 'Tis done.\n LARTIUS. Agreed.\n MARCIUS. Say, has our general met the enemy?... |
2,275 | 1797_act_1,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the scene opens, the Roman soldiers led by Caius Martius have ravaged Corioles and are running around with their loot. Meanwhile, Caius Martius decides to take a bunch of his soldiers into the field to meet up with Cominius' troops, who've been fighting against Tullus Aufidius. Martius is still bleeding from all o... | [
"SCENE V.\nWithin Corioli. A street",
"Enter certain Romans, with spoils",
"FIRST ROMAN. This will I carry to Rome.\n SECOND ROMAN. And I this.\n THIRD ROMAN. A murrain on 't! I took this for silver.\n [Alarum continues still afar off]",
"Enter MARCIUS and TITUS LARTIUS With a ... |
2,276 | 1797_act_1,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cut to Cominius and his troops in the battlefield. Cominius is delivering a pep talk to his soldiers when a messenger arrives with news that Caius Martius was driven back to the trenches outside of Corioles. Just then, Caius Martius shows up all bloody. Martius and Cominius are very happy to see each other. As they hug... | [
"SCENE VI.\nNear the camp of COMINIUS",
"Enter COMINIUS, as it were in retire, with soldiers",
"COMINIUS. Breathe you, my friends. Well fought; we are come off\n Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands\n Nor cowardly in retire. Believe me, sirs,\n We shall be charg'd again. Whiles we have struck,\n ... |
2,277 | 1797_act_1,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside the gates of Corioles, Titus Lartius and a bunch of Roman soldiers have stayed behind to guard the city they've just sacked. Shakespeare ups the dramatic tension by letting us know that if Caius Martius and his troops lose the battle in the field, there's no way Rome can keep the city.... | [
"SCENE VII.\nThe gates of Corioli",
"TITUS LARTIUS, having set a guard upon Corioli, going with drum\nand trumpet\ntoward COMINIUS and CAIUS MARCIUS, enters with a LIEUTENANT,\nother soldiers,\nand a scout",
"LARTIUS. So, let the ports be guarded; keep your duties\n As I have set them down. If I do send, dis... |
2,278 | 1797_act_1,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back on the battlefields, Caius Martius meets up with his mortal enemy, Tullus Aufidius. As these two go at it in man-to-man combat, some very impressive trash talk ensues. Just as Caius Martius gains the upper hand, Aufidius' troops come to his rescue and the Volscians run away with their tails between their legs. Auf... | [
"SCENE VIII.\nA field of battle between the Roman and the Volscian camps",
"Alarum, as in battle. Enter MARCIUS and AUFIDIUS at several doors",
"MARCIUS. I'll fight with none but thee, for I do hate thee\n Worse than a promise-breaker.\n AUFIDIUS. We hate alike:\n Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor\n Mo... |
2,279 | 1797_act_1,_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the scene opens, the Romans are celebrating their victory with flying chest bumps and stuff. Caius Martius is super embarrassed by all the attention and refuses to take his share of the war spoils. This, of course, makes him an even bigger rock-star. While the crowd of soldiers cheers him on, Martius gives a modest ... | [
"SCENE IX.\nThe Roman camp",
"Flourish. Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Enter, at one door,\nCOMINIUS with the Romans; at another door, MARCIUS, with his arm\nin a scarf",
"COMINIUS. If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,\n Thou't not believe thy deeds; but I'll report it\n Where senators shall min... |
2,280 | 1797_act_1,_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, over at the defeated Volscian camp, Tullus Aufidius is super bummed about losing to his arch enemy. Then Aufidius is all, "I'll be back." | [
"SCENE X.\nThe camp of the Volsces",
"A flourish. Cornets. Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS bloody, with two or\nthree soldiers",
"AUFIDIUS. The town is ta'en. FIRST SOLDIER. 'Twill be deliver'd back on good condition. AUFIDIUS. Condition! I would I were a Roman; for I cannot,\n Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition?... |
2,281 | 1797_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Rome, Menenius chats up our two scheming tribunes, Sicinius and Brutus, while waiting for news from the battlefield. Sicinius and Brutus start with the Caius Martius hate, but Menenius defends his pal and gives the tribunes a good tongue lashing before storming off. Just then, Volumnia, Virgilia, and Valeria sh... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter MENENIUS, with the two Tribunes of the people, SICINIUS and\nBRUTUS",
"MENENIUS. The augurer tells me we shall have news tonight. BRUTUS. Good or bad? MENENIUS. Not according to the prayer of the people, for they love not Marcius. SICINIUS. Nature teaches beasts ... |
2,282 | 1797_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Capitol, a couple of Officers prepare for the senate and talk about Coriolanus' chances of getting elected. On the one hand, he's a "brave" war hero. On the other hand, he's way too proud and hates the "common people." One of the Officers points out that plenty of politicians hate the commoners but they're good ... | [
"SCENE II.\nRome. The Capitol",
"Enter two OFFICERS, to lay cushions, as it were in the Capitol",
"FIRST OFFICER. Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand for consulships? SECOND OFFICER. Three, they say; but 'tis thought of every one Coriolanus will carry it. FIRST OFFICER. That's a brave fellow; but h... |
2,283 | 1797_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Forum in Rome, a bunch of plebeians have gathered to hear Coriolanus speak. Some of them feel like they're being put in a tough spot. They don't really like Coriolanus, but since he's a war hero, they feel obligated to vote for him if he shows up, gives them some lip service, and shows them his wounds. Coriolanu... | [
"SCENE III.\nRome. The Forum",
"Enter seven or eight citizens",
"FIRST CITIZEN. Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not\nto\n deny him. SECOND CITIZEN. We may, sir, if we will. THIRD CITIZEN. We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a\n power that we have no power to do; for if he show us hi... |
2,284 | 1797_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a street in Rome, Coriolanus, Cominius, and Titus Lartius have a little chit-chat about Tullus Aufidius. Apparently, Aufidius has slapped together a new Volscian army that is ready to rumble with Rome again. Oh, this can't be good. Now Sicinius and Brutus show up with more bad news: the plebeians have changed their ... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.\nRome. A street",
"Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, all the GENTRY, COMINIUS,\nTITUS LARTIUS, and other SENATORS",
"CORIOLANUS. Tullus Aufidius, then, had made new head? LARTIUS. He had, my lord; and that it was which caus'd\n Our swifter composition. CORIOLANUS. So then the Volsces st... |
2,285 | 1797_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Coriolanus' house, our hero is all worked up because the pesky mob of plebeians just tried to kill him. He says he'd rather be tortured and killed than apologize to them. Next he blames his mom, Volumnia, for all his problems. He says it was her idea for him to act like a phony politician in the first place. But Vol... | [
"SCENE II.\nRome. The house of CORIOLANUS",
"Enter CORIOLANUS with NOBLES",
"CORIOLANUS. Let them pull all about mine ears, present me\n Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels;\n Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,\n That the precipitation might down stretch\n Below the beam of sight; yet w... |
2,286 | 1797_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Coriolanus shows up at the marketplace ready to deliver the big apology. The plebeians, along with Sicinius and Brutus, are waiting for him. First, Menenius reminds everyone that Coriolanus is a big war hero with the scars to prove it. The tribunes decide it's time to pounce and waste no time provoking Coriolanus. Sici... | [
"SCENE III.\nRome. The Forum",
"Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS",
"BRUTUS. In this point charge him home, that he affects\n Tyrannical power. If he evade us there,\n Enforce him with his envy to the people,\n And that the spoil got on the Antiates\n Was ne'er distributed.",
"Enter an AEDILE",
"What, w... |
2,287 | 1797_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before leaving the city, Coriolanus says a quick goodbye to his wife and mom at Rome's gates. The women are boo-hooing, which totally bugs Coriolanus. He orders them to man up, especially his tough mama. Coriolanus then declares that he's going to live his life like a "lonely dragon." His pal Cominius offers to go with... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.\nRome. Before a gate of the city",
"Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS, COMINIUS,\nwith the young NOBILITY of Rome",
"CORIOLANUS. Come, leave your tears; a brief farewell. The beast\n With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,\n Where is your ancient courage? You were us'd\n... |
2,288 | 1797_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back at the marketplace, Sicinius and Brutus tell the plebeians that the show's over and that they should all stop rioting and go on home now. Sicinius and Brutus both decide that now that they have successfully booted Coriolanus out of Rome, they should pretend to be "humbler" so people won't get mad at them. Speaking... | [
"SCENE II.\nRome. A street near the gate",
"Enter the two Tribunes, SICINIUS and BRUTUS with the AEDILE",
"SICINIUS. Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further.\n The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided\n In his behalf.\n BRUTUS. Now we have shown our power,\n Let us seem humbler after ... |
2,289 | 1797_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a highway between Rome and Antium, a Roman who has been spying for the Volscians has a secret meeting with a Volscian guy named Adrian. After some friendly chit-chat, they get down to business. The Roman spy reports that there's been a ton of drama in Rome lately. The patricians have been fighting with the plebeians... | [
"SCENE III.\nA highway between Rome and Antium",
"Enter a ROMAN and a VOLSCE, meeting",
"ROMAN. I know you well, sir, and you know me; your name, I\nthink,\n is Adrian. VOLSCE. It is so, sir. Truly, I have forgot you. ROMAN. I am a Roman; and my services are, as you are, against\n'em. Know you me yet? VOLSCE... |
2,290 | 1797_act_4,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, Coriolanus shows up in Antium. He's looking for Tullus Aufidius so they can get together and destroy Rome. Coriolanus delivers a soliloquy about how crazy it is that he's about to become BFF's with Tullus Aufidius when not long so ago he wanted to kill the guy. He also reflects about how he used to love Rome... | [
"SCENE IV.\nAntium. Before AUFIDIUS' house",
"Enter CORIOLANUS, in mean apparel, disguis'd and muffled",
"CORIOLANUS. A goodly city is this Antium. City,\n 'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir\n Of these fair edifices fore my wars\n Have I heard groan and drop. Then know me not.\n Lest that thy... |
2,291 | 1797_act_4,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Coriolanus shows up at Aufidius' house, where a big, swanky party is in full swing, except this is ancient Rome so we have to call the party a "feast." Because Coriolanus is dressed like a homeless guy, a bunch of Aufidius' servants tries to kick him to the curb. After a minor scuffle, Aufidius comes over and demands t... | [
"SCENE V.\nAntium. AUFIDIUS' house",
"Music plays. Enter A SERVINGMAN",
"FIRST SERVANT. Wine, wine, wine! What service is here! I think\nour\n fellows are asleep. Exit",
"Enter another SERVINGMAN",
"SECOND SERVANT.Where's Cotus? My master calls for him.\n Cotus! ... |
2,292 | 1797_act_4,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Rome, Sicinius and Brutus give each other high fives for getting Coriolanus thrown out of the city. They talk about how peaceful and "safe" it is in Rome with Coriolanus out of the picture. Now another office Aedile shows up and says he's got some bad news. Word on the streets is that Aufidius is planning an at... | [
"SCENE VI.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter the two Tribunes, SICINIUS and BRUTUS",
"SICINIUS. We hear not of him, neither need we fear him.\n His remedies are tame. The present peace\n And quietness of the people, which before\n Were in wild hurry, here do make his friends\n Blush that the world goes... |
2,293 | 1797_act_4,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now we head over to the Volscian camp just outside of Rome. Led by Coriolanus, the army has been razing everything in its path as it makes its way to the city. Aufidius confesses that he's totally jealous of Coriolanus because his soldiers worship him like a god. He also admits that he wishes he never joined forces wit... | [
"SCENE VII.\nA camp at a short distance from Rome",
"Enter AUFIDIUS with his LIEUTENANT",
"AUFIDIUS. Do they still fly to th' Roman? LIEUTENANT. I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but\n Your soldiers use him as the grace fore meat,\n Their talk at table, and their thanks at end;\n And you are dark... |
2,294 | 1797_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Rome, Sicinius and Brutus beg Menenius to talk with Coriolanus and convince him not to demolish Rome. He reflects on his relationship with Coriolanus, who was like a "son" to him and treated him like a "father." Those days are long gone. Menenius refuses and says Coriolanus will never listen to him. Plus, Comin... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS and BRUTUS, the two Tribunes,\nwith others",
"MENENIUS. No, I'll not go. You hear what he hath said\n Which was sometime his general, who lov'd him\n In a most dear particular. He call'd me father;\n But what o' that? Go, you ... |
2,295 | 1797_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Volscian army's camp just outside of Rome, Coriolanus prepares for battle. Menenius shows up to do some good old-fashioned begging but first he has to get past a bunch of Watchmen. The Watchmen don't believe that Menenius is a friend of Coriolanus so they give him a hard time. When Coriolanus shows up, Menenius ... | [
"SCENE II.\nThe Volscian camp before Rome",
"Enter MENENIUS to the WATCH on guard",
"FIRST WATCH. Stay. Whence are you? SECOND WATCH. Stand, and go back. MENENIUS. You guard like men, 'tis well; but, by your leave, I am an officer of state and come To speak with Coriolanus. FIRST WATCH. From whence? MENENIUS. F... |
2,296 | 1797_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Coriolanus and Aufidius head over to Coriolanus' private tent for a little chat. Coriolanus tells us that he feels kind of bad about the way he treated Menenius. After all, the dude loved him like a "father" loves a "son." That said, Coriolanus wants nothing more to do with Rome, even if they send more people to beg fo... | [
"SCENE III.\nThe tent of CORIOLANUS",
"Enter CORIOLANUS, AUFIDIUS, and others",
"CORIOLANUS. We will before the walls of Rome to-morrow\n Set down our host. My partner in this action,\n You must report to th' Volscian lords how plainly\n I have borne this business. AUFIDIUS. Only their ends\n You ha... |
2,297 | 1797_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Rome, poor old Menenius arrives with news that Coriolanus refuses to show mercy to his native city. He doesn't think Coriolanus' mom will have any luck changing his mind either. Sicinius and Brutus are worried sick, naturally. Menenius says there's no more "mercy" in Coriolanus "than there is milk in a male tig... | [
"SCENE IV.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter MENENIUS and SICINIUS",
"MENENIUS. See you yond coign o' th' Capitol, yond cornerstone? SICINIUS. Why, what of that? MENENIUS. If it be possible for you to displace it with your\nlittle\n finger, there is some hope the ladies of Rome, especially his\n mother, may ... |
2,298 | 1797_act_5,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before we know it, Volumnia, Virgilia, and Valeria are parading through the streets like rock stars for saving Rome from big, bad, Coriolanus. Crowds of Romans gather to cheer them on for saving the day. | [
"SCENE V.\nRome. A street near the gate",
"Enter two SENATORS With VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, VALERIA, passing over\nthe stage,\n'With other LORDS",
"FIRST SENATOR. Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!\n Call all your tribes together, praise the gods,\n And make triumphant fires; strew flowers before them.\n ... |
2,299 | 1797_act_5,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile in Corioles .... Tullus Aufidius and a bunch of his Conspirator pals have shown up in Corioles, where people have gathered to welcome Coriolanus as their newest war hero. We guess they forgot that this is the same guy who stomped all over them back in Act 1, scenes 4-5, which earned him the nickname name, "Co... | [
"SCENE VI.\nCorioli. A public place",
"Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS with attendents",
"AUFIDIUS. Go tell the lords o' th' city I am here;\n Deliver them this paper; having read it,\n Bid them repair to th' market-place, where I,\n Even in theirs and in the commons' ears,\n Will vouch the truth of it. Him I... |
2,271 | 1797_act_i,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play begins in the city of Rome, where the common people, or plebeians, are rioting against their rulers, the patrician class, whom they accuse of hoarding grain while the common people starve. The plebeians demand the right to set the price of grain, rather than accept a price imposed by the Senate , and they sing... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.\nRome. A street",
"Enter a company of mutinous citizens, with staves, clubs, and\nother weapons",
"FIRST CITIZEN. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.\n ALL. Speak, speak.\n FIRST CITIZEN. You are all resolv'd rather to die than to\nfamish?\n ALL. Resolv'd, resolv'd.\n FIRST CITIZE... |
2,300 | 1797_act_1,_scenes_2-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The action now shifts to the Volscian city of Corioles, where Tullus Aufidius, about to depart for his attack on Rome, tells the Senators of Corioles that the Romans are already prepared for his offensive. But, the Senators are skeptical of the Romans' readiness; they advise Aufidius to take his army into the field as ... | [
"SCENE II.\nCorioli. The Senate House.",
"Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS with SENATORS of Corioli",
"FIRST SENATOR. So, your opinion is, Aufidius,\n That they of Rome are ent'red in our counsels\n And know how we proceed. AUFIDIUS. Is it not yours? What ever have been thought on in this state\n That could be br... |
2,301 | 1797_act_2,_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Rome, Brutus and Sicinius converse with Menenius as they await news from the battlefield. The two tribunes criticize Caius Martius, calling him overly proud and an enemy to the common people of Rome; in reply, Menenius tells them that they should look to their own faults before they criticize others, since they are ... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter MENENIUS, with the two Tribunes of the people, SICINIUS and\nBRUTUS",
"MENENIUS. The augurer tells me we shall have news tonight. BRUTUS. Good or bad? MENENIUS. Not according to the prayer of the people, for they love not Marcius. SICINIUS. Nature teaches beasts ... |
2,302 | 1797_act_ii,_scene_iii;_act_iii,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the marketplace, a collection of citizens discusses Coriolanus's candidacy, saying that if he uses the scars of battle in his appeal to them, they will probably make him consul. Then, Coriolanus himself comes in, accompanied by Menenius, who offers encouragement and then leaves his friend alone with the crowds, whic... | [
"SCENE III.\nRome. The Forum",
"Enter seven or eight citizens",
"FIRST CITIZEN. Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not\nto\n deny him. SECOND CITIZEN. We may, sir, if we will. THIRD CITIZEN. We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a\n power that we have no power to do; for if he show us hi... |
2,303 | 1797_act_iii,_scenes_ii-iii;_act_iv,_scene_i-iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Coriolanus tells a group of Roman nobles that he has no intention of changing his character to suit the desires of the mob. Volumnia comes in and berates him for his intransigence, and then Menenius arrives with the Senators and advises him to go the marketplace and make peace with the people: he must recant what he ha... | [
"SCENE II.\nRome. The house of CORIOLANUS",
"Enter CORIOLANUS with NOBLES",
"CORIOLANUS. Let them pull all about mine ears, present me\n Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels;\n Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,\n That the precipitation might down stretch\n Below the beam of sight; yet w... |
2,304 | 1797_act_4,_scenes_5-7;_act_5_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Antium, Coriolanus asks for admission to the house of Tullus Aufidius. Aufidius' servants refuse to allow him in, as he is dressed in humble clothing, but one of them fetches his master. The Volscian general does not recognize Coriolanus either, so the Roman identifies himself and says that he has come to offer his ... | [
"SCENE V.\nAntium. AUFIDIUS' house",
"Music plays. Enter A SERVINGMAN",
"FIRST SERVANT. Wine, wine, wine! What service is here! I think\nour\n fellows are asleep. Exit",
"Enter another SERVINGMAN",
"SECOND SERVANT.Where's Cotus? My master calls for him.\n Cotus! ... |
2,305 | 1797_act_5,_scenes_2-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Volscian camp, Menenius is halted by the sentries, who refuse to allow him to see their generals. Eventually Coriolanus and Tullus Aufidius emerge, but Menenius' pleas fall on deaf ears, and he is sent away, after enduring the mockery of the guards. When he is gone, Aufidius remarks that he is impressed with Cor... | [
"SCENE II.\nThe Volscian camp before Rome",
"Enter MENENIUS to the WATCH on guard",
"FIRST WATCH. Stay. Whence are you? SECOND WATCH. Stand, and go back. MENENIUS. You guard like men, 'tis well; but, by your leave, I am an officer of state and come To speak with Coriolanus. FIRST WATCH. From whence? MENENIUS. F... |
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