ENGL 2240/British Literature after 1789: Weaver Movie Review Essay

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Introduction
Question 1
The passage appears at the point of the plot where the narrator describes how beautiful the towns and cities are, and then explains a horrifying scene that they saw. The narrator encountered the horrifying scene at the March-Feld where the bodies of horses and men laid dead (Carlyle & Thomas 1055). Further, the author describes the carcasses out of which life had been blown out of that scattered all over the place without being buried.
Question 2
The whole story explains how the government dupes its people by pretending to be building the city while at the same time it destroys the same town. There is a continuous power struggle within the government where it is passed within the same lineage, from father to son. Moreover, the narrator explains how the region under Napoleon that was green and had better dwellings was blown away by gunpowder. Specifically, the story is related to the idea of baptism in the Bible where absolution is granted to those who have been baptized. Therefore, the connection of the passage to the whole story is that irrespective of how the leaders previously deceived their people for personal gain, the same have changed over the years, and currently there is a democracy.
Question 3
The characters in the passage are the government and the public who are the people whom it controls. The relationship between the two characters is that the public depends on the government as it controls every activity within the nation. Contrarily, the government uses its power to manipulate the public for personal gain. Hence, the success of a nation depends on the characters of those who are in authority.
Question 4
The whole story shows the experience that the narrator had regarding the war and other illegal activities that occurred at its time. Therefore, I am reading the words of the narrator and not those of the characters. Further, the narrator speaks for himself since he uses the word ‘I’ throughout the story to show his personal experience of the events that occurred at the time.
Question 5
The narrator uses colloquial diction. The word choice is evident from the long and sophisticated sentence structures used as well as the vocabulary used that is only common in certain regions. For instance, the narrator uses the sentence “Journeyest thou wearing solely, in thy antiquarium fervor” to describe the feeling of people at the time about the problems that they were facing. The words are borrowed from Latin which relates to the language of the people in the region during the period.
Question 6
The key word in the passage is war or violence that was present at the time. The word is supported by the description of the area where the narrator saw the carcasses. Some of the words used to support the presence of war were ‘’dead men and horses,’’ ‘’carcasses on the desert,’’ and ‘’nursery where children would be throttled and tattled.’’ The words describe the horrifying scenes that are seen during the war where people die, and some are tortured (Johnston and John 210). Hence, the key word in the passage is war.
Question 7
The passage has nine sentences, and each sentence contains approximately thirty words. Some sentences contain fewer words, while most of them contain over thirty words. Ideally, the sentences are complicated in structure. The sentences contain several ideas which are separated by other punctuation marks that are not used to end sentences. The punctuations include a colon and comma marks.
Question 8
The sentences contain punctuation marks that help the narrator to convey his message. Specifically, the narrator has used exclamation and question marks severally in the passage to stress the point made (Kulig et al. 112). For example ‘’Horrifying enough!’’ and ‘’the house of Hapsburg might...