HISTORY 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Churl, Juggling, Sibyl
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The wretched female clasped her hands close together and held them towards heaven like a sibyl announcing war and dissolution, while, in impotent yet frightful rage, she poured forth a tide of the deepest imprecations. Base saxon churl she exclaimed, vile hypocraticial juggler! May the eyes that looked tamely on the death of my hair-haired boy be melted in their sockets with ceaseless tears, shed for those that are nearest and most dear to thee! . When examining walter scott"s the highland widow , certain aspects of the story can clearly be interpreted as symbols or analogies for the historical events that occurred during the period before and after the jacobite rebellion of 1745. Hamish bean and the titular highland widow of mactavish mohr, can be read as an analogy to the traditional scottish values and way of life that the jacobite rebels held deeply. She is uncontrollable and almost animalistic in her descriptions.
