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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2012 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

Read the extract and answer the question

X : Come on then; down, and swear.
Y : I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster
A most scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him
X: Come, kiss.
(Act 11 scene two lines 139-143)

Speaker Y is
Answer Details
Speaker Y is Trinculo. In this extract, he is mocking Caliban by calling him a "puppy-headed monster" and a "scurvy monster". He also expresses his desire to beat him. When X tells him to come and kiss, it can be interpreted as X trying to stop the conflict between Trinculo and Caliban.
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