Summary Of The Duke In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Chapter 21: The duke is telling the king to play Juliet better, but the duke is not that good either. Half way through their production, he mixed up his plays. When trying to state the monologue, “To be, or not to be” from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, he says the wrong lines and makes up some as well. Even after many errors, Huck actually thinks that the duke has a great talent. They visit a town in Arkansas, where Huck gives a really good description of the town. It is where young men walk around and fight over chewing tobacco. They witness Sherburn, a drunk, start a shooting with another man. People gather around the dying man and they insult Sherburn. Chapter 22: The whole mob is so angry they decide to go to Sherburn’s house so they can hang him. Sherburn though, thinks that most people are weaklings, so he does not think the lynch mob will do anything. He was right because the mob leaves. As Huck sneaks into the circus, a drunk guy keeps …show more content…

Again, they get angry when the king walks out naked with stripes painted on him. The second and the third night are loaded with people as well. They noticed that they have the same audience every night, so the three make a run for it and find out that they made $465. Jim says bad things about the king and says he does not like him. Huck though, says are kings are scoundrels and falsely brings up King Henry VIII instead of the king who married Scheherazade. Huck tells Jim that he married women and cut their heads off. Jim says the duke is fine, but says he does not want to meet any other kings or dukes anymore. Jim also says he is really sad for how he treated his daughter. He says that she had become deaf after recovering from scarlet fever. He tells Huck that one day he told Elizabeth, his daughter, to shut the door. Since she could not hear, the task was not done, which ended in Jim slapping her and him eventually realizing that she could not

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