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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 X is
Answer Details
Speaker X is Stephano. In this passage, he is telling Y (who is likely Trinculo) to swear allegiance to him and then commands him to come and kiss him. This exchange takes place after the two of them have met Caliban, whom Y describes as a "puppy-headed monster" that he wants to beat. Stephano is a drunken butler who has joined forces with Trinculo and they plan to make Caliban their servant.
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