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  • Essay / "In What the Shepherd Saw" Text Analysis - 883

    In light of the results presented above, it is evident that this group is more interested in the words duke, castle, shepherd, duchess, stranger, closet, vicar , captain, knight, boy, grace, dance, rector, light, hut, hill and door The words are associated with the idea of ​​hidden or unrevealed death The idea is repeated in the three texts where the problems arise. of jealousy and suspicion in marriage lead to death In all three texts, the main idea of ​​each is that there is a woman who belongs to the elite and that she is beautiful. as a man of high position, feels jealous of her and decides to take revenge on the one considered to be her lover because of the shame that such an illegal relationship causes him. This idea is however approached differently in the three texts. . This is complemented by a critical reading of the three texts as below What the shepherd saw we have a story of jealousy, suspicion, death and mystery. The action begins with a little shepherd witnessing an unusual act in the dark. It is about the Duke's wife, Harriet, who comes to meet her cousin, Captain Fred Ogbourne, who left England years ago while living in Canada. Fred questions Harriet about her husband's mistreatment. For her part, she insists on the idea that the Duke is a good husband. And despite all of Fred's seductions, she remains firm in the face of such temptations. She even regrets having come to see him: “I shouldn’t have come now.” However, the fact that Harriet went out without her husband's knowledge or permission to see Fred is suspected by the Duke. With that, he goes out the next evening to see his wife with Fred thinking that she will go to meet her lover. To his surprise, middle of paper... he could see the stranger walking through the room where he was sleeping. He saw the stranger taking his personal belongings and he didn't move. A few days after this incident, the total defeat of the Duke's army and the disappearance of the Duke at the start of the battle was announced. Swetman was now sure that his guest was the Duke himself. Now he was beginning to feel sorry for having acted so harshly over such a small breach of good faith, as he described the refugee's behavior towards his daughter. After all, rumors spread throughout the country that the man beheaded in the Tower was not the Duke, but one of the officers captured after the battle when the Duke had been helped to escape out of the country. Eventually, Swetman came to the conclusion "that his friend might have been a friend of the Duke, whom he asked to fetch the things in a final request.”.