Does Fortinbras become king at the end of "Hamlet"? I know that Hamlet wished for Fortinbras to become king but does he? Was fortinbras attacking...

We don't know what happens in this play past Fortinbras' final words, "Go, bid the soldiers shoot," which is usually viewed as a salute to the dead Prince Hamlet.  Since he does have Hamlet's blessing to take the throne and since, as he says, he has some claims to the kingdom of Denmark, then it is a safe assumption that he does become king.  Fortinbras is probably not attacking Denmark so much as he is coming in determination.  He is determined to avenge his father's death at the hands of Hamlet's father, King Hamlet.  He has met up with and is accompanied by ambassadors from England and he has his soldiers salute them with a volley of gunfire hence Osric's words around lines 356-58 of Act 5, sc. 2.  Fortinbras does bring soldiers and he does seem to take over immediately, but it's not clear if he invaded in a war-like manner.

Summary of Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (dramatic monologue by Robert Browning)?

The Solliloquy is (one of my absolutely personal favorite poems) not as much a "dramatic monologue" thought it could be considered that since that is Browning's style.  I would just stick to it being considered a solliloquy whose main idea is to stream the inner thoughts of the main character and the depiction or focus on one other character as a result of the main character's analysis.

In this totally hillarious solo, we have two monks: the main character, who is angry, jealous and vindictive, and his focal victim, brother Lawrence.

According to our main character's rant, Brother Lawrence is basically a hypocrite and a manwhore who eats too much and indulges in just about everything. Interestingly, though, our monk main character describes TO THE LAST DETAIL all the things brother Lawrence does, almost as if he is delighted to talk about these things.

The premise of the whole thing is that the narrator is indeed pointing one finger at poor brother Lawrence while the other three fingers point at himself.  The fact that he details brother Lawrence's lechery, lust, and gluttory makes you wonder why in the world a righteous man would just let it go, PLUS why would he stand and watch. That is because the narrator is also involved in these treacheries of the church but, apparently, brother Lawrence has gotten a thicker fare from his doings and enjoys them more. Hence, our narrator is jealous.

Remember that Browning wrote this solliloquy during the most prudish of Victorian periods where religious fanaticism took the place of the inner sanctum of debauchery taking place in the Church, State, and even homes of those who claimed to practice it. This is a clear rebel yell against religious institutions and it takes a clear dig at what Victorians considered moral and righteous.

Analyze the cultural and economic responses of the French and Spanish to the Indians of North America before 1750.this is an essay topic for my...

Okay... you've gotten a lot in there, but I have a couple of points for you.

1.  If you're only supposed to be going up to 1750, don't put the French and Indian War in there as it happens after 1750.

More importantly:

2. I'd encourage you to think about the amount of interbreeding/intermarriage that went on between the Europeans and the Native Americans.  This is very much in contrast to the British colonies.

3.  This goes along with the idea of the fur trade, but you might want to think systematically about the place of the Indians in the two economies -- with the French doing mostly trading with the Indians whereas the Spanish did encomiendas and such.

4.  Might want to think about (I might even structure my essay around this) *why* the French and Spanish had different cultural and economic responses to the Indians.  I'd be thinking about the number of people they each sent to the colonies and the overall goals of the respective colonies.

Good luck!

Please paraphrase the poem "The Solitary Reaper."

Suggested paraphrase ideas for the poem The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth

Look at her, all alone,

Girl from the Highland mountains of Scotland,

Harvesting the grain.

Pass by quietly, or stop altogether for a moment

So as not to disturb her -

See how she cuts and ties the stalks

Singing her sorrowful song.

Just listen - the whole deep valley

Overflows with the music.

Not even the beautiful Nightingale bird

Sang such cheering music to groups of

Tired and thirsty travellers at an oasis

In some desert of the Middle East.

Neither did a Cuckoo bird

Brighten the quietness of the tempestuous seas

Around the Scottish Islands

So far away and isolated.

Doesn't anyone know the tune she's singing?

I wish I knew.

Perhaps the notes tell of sorrow or war from long ago

In her past

Or maybe its just some daily domestic strife

That she suffered in her past

And will again suffer in her future.

Whatever the name of the song the young girl sang

She sang it as if it would never have an ending -

I saw her sing it while she worked

With the sharp curved wheat knife in her hand

as she bent to cut and tie.

It was music that stayed in my heart for ever

As I departed up the hill

And could her singing no more.

You might want to add your own ideas and vocabulary to decorate the paraphrase and make it more poetic!

"Bodes some strange eruption to our state..." Name three eruptions that the guards are worried might happen to "the state."William Shakespeare's...

In Act One, Scene 1, Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo discuss the appearance of the ghost of King Hamlet, the father of Prince Hamlet:

In what particular thought to work I know not,/But in the gross and scope of mine opinion,/This bodes some strange eruption to our state (I,i, 67-69)

Horatio worries that the King has been murdered since his ghost reappears. For one thing, the guards are worried about young Fortinbras of Norway seeking revenge for King Hamlet's slaying of his father; they fear that the son will want to reclaim lands lost by his father, Fortinbras.

Secondly, another eruption to the state is the possible reason for Hamlet's ghost:  regicide.  As a serious crime, regicide greatly disrupts the state, and the citizens become anxious as the possible disruption of the entire country can occur with the takeover of someone else.  Horatio alludes to the "Disasters in the sun"(I,i,118) after the "mightiest Julius fell" (I,i,114)

Lastly, the guards are concerned about what the ghost will say to his son, Hamlet, and how the prince will react to what he is told.  If  Hamlet avenges his father's death, he may be killed, and no rightful heir will be in line for the throne.  In addition, other conflicts may arise from Hamlet's action:  Civil strife, wars outside Denmark, etc. 

This scene, thus, introduces the motif of indirection and deception that prevails throughout Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet."

What did Ruth find out at the doctor's office in "A Raisin in the Sun"?

Ruth goes to the doctor's office to confirm her pregnancy.  It is critical to the development of the play for several reasons.  The first would be that as the family is enduring challenges, there is a sense that something is about to happen which will be definitive in the family's situation.  The waiting for the insurance money, the predicament that begins the discussion of the move, as well as the general feeling of change which seems to stir in the household is amplified with the pregnancy.  Given the uncertain level of where the family is and where it is going, the static approach to Ruth's pregnancy would be to get an abortion.  Yet, symbolic of the new start the family is going to have with the move to Clybourne Park, she keeps the baby the baby with the hopes that a new beginning is present on multiple levels.

What are literary terms? I really need help figuring out what literary terms are. So if you would please leave a clear definition and an example...

Hello Misslady!

Literary terms are words such as personification, simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and so on. They are used to describe various forms of writing by an author. Let's take a look at personification. The word "personification" is just that, a word or a literary term. The definition of personification is an object, thing, or nonhuman character having human traits. Authors may use examples of personification in their writings. An example of personification used may be "The wind howled through the trees." The wind is the nonhuman and the howling is something that a human may do. Thus, the wind has a human characteristic or is an example of personification.

Let's take a look at another literary term: onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is the literary term. The definition is words that have sounds. An example of an onomatopoeia is, "The phone buzzed in my pocket." The word "buzz" is an example of an onomatopoeia because the word "buzz" sounds like the sound buzz.

Hope this helps. Let me know.