1)What is the theme in The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson?

Ans:- Isolation is a theme in this poem.The Lady of Shalott seems pretty tired of being locked
away in a castle tower. She yearns to get out and be a part of life again.

2)What is the main conflict in The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson?

Ans:- The Lady of Shalott is trapped in a castle tower and wants to leave.

3)How does Alfred Tennyson use imagery in The Lady of Shalott?

Ans:- Tennyson uses a lot of enchanted kingdom King Arthur Camelot imagery. There is a lot of
imagery of nature, freedom, and sprawling landscapes. Unfortunately, the Lady of Shallot
cannot be a part of this landscape.

4)Who is the main character in The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson?

Ans:- That would be the Lady of Shalott.

5)Who is the protagonist in The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson?

Ans:- That would be the Lady of Shalott

6)Describe symbolism in The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson?

Ans:- The mirror, which the Lady must look to see the world, can symbolize the distorted reality,
which we all sometimes see the world through

7).How are the ideas present in "The Lady of Shalott" applicable to today's society? How are the
author's ideas still meaningful?

Ans:-One of the themes of Tennyson's poem is isolation—in this case that of the Lady
condemned to perpetuate an essentially meaningless activity alone. The situation may seem
remote from modern life, as it was as well from Tennyson's own world. But the nineteenth
century saw many attempts by artists to recreate ancient or medieval myths and to find modern
meanings in them. The mere mention of Camelot brings up a host of images of an idealized
premodern England, but one which has relevance as a contrast to the new, industrialized
society of Tennyson's time, and by extension, our own modern age.

The Lady of Shallot and her isolated existence can be regarded as symbolic of both the
negative and positive qualities of the premodern world. Though Lancelot is also a part of that
mythic world, the Lady seeks, through him, to break out of her prison. There are many analogies
that can be established between on the one hand, this attempt to remove oneself from isolation,
and on the other, situations in present-day life where individuals, or even cultural or ethnic
groups, are marginalized or restricted in contact from the wider world and may seek to change
their status in relation to that world.

It's possible that Tennyson intended "The Lady of Shallot" as merely a description of the lost
world of English legend. On that level alone, the poem "works." But in his oeuvre as a whole, he
concerns himself with the contrasts and, paradoxically, the connections between tradition and
the new society of his time, which in many ways was just as jarring in its discord with the past as
the events of our time in the twenty-first century are.

8)why is the lady of shalott called a "fairy"?

Ans:-Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" is set in a dream world influenced by Arthurian romance,
rather than in the Victorian England in which Tennyson lived. The stream beneath the tower
flows to Camelot, and Sir Lancelot appears riding by. Of all the magical elements of the poem,
the Lady herself—who has no name, lives in a tower, and is cursed never to look out—is among
the most unrealistic. She is a supernatural or symbolic being, who apparently never eats,
sleeps, bathes, or does any other normal activity, but instead sits weaving night and day.The
poet describes her as singing "like an angel" before having the reaper identify her as a "fairy."
The term "fairy" emphasizes her being a creature of romantic imagination rather than an
ordinary woman. The term is chosen to evoke in the reader a sense of the otherworldly,
magical, and mysterious. Moreover, it emphasizes how the story of the poem resembles the
stories of fairy tales, which have many of the same dreamlike and mysterious elements.

9)Who cursed the Lady of Shalott in "The Lady of Shalott"?

Ans:- In "The Lady of Shalott," no information is revealed concerning who cursed the Lady, why
she is cursed, or how long she's been cursed. The "history" of the curse is left ambiguous.

This means, of course, that those details have nothing to do with what the writer is revealing in
his work. Whatever is on Tennyson's mind, "who" curses her is not necessary information, so
as readers, we shouldn't spend much time on it. It's not a part of the work of art. It's irrelevant
to what the work of art accomplishes.

What's signigicant is that the Lady seems to be completely contented and happy fulfilling her
role as a separated artist, until the song of Lancelot draws her to the casement to hear and see
for herself. Whatever else is going on in the poem, a rational explanation of and history of the
curse is not.

10)What is the curse on the Lady of Shalott?

Ans:-In the first stanza of Part II, the narrator tells us that the Lady of Shalott has no time "to
sport or play" because she must continue to weave and weave at her loom, and she is not
permitted to stop her weaving. The narrator says,

A curse is on her, if she stay

Her weaving, either night or day,
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be;
Therefore she weaveth steadily . . .

In other words, the curse will take effect if the Lady stops weaving, and so she cannot ever stop,
during either day or night, for any reason—even for something as simple as glancing out her
window to look at Camelot below. The Lady does not actually know what the curse is, or what
exactly will happen to her if she stops, and so she never stops.

Because she cannot stop to look out her window, she keeps a mirror that reflects what is
happening outside; this way, she can look at her mirror—without ceasing her work—to see
what's going on. However, when she catches sight of Sir Lancelot, she runs to the window
without thinking. Suddenly, her loom flies apart and her mirror cracks, and the Lady knows that
the "'curse is . . . upon [her].'"

11) What does The Lady of Shalott represent?

Ans:- The lady in The Lady of Shallott, symbolically represents the conditions that existed in
society that controlled the lives of Victorian women. As sons were gaining more freedom in
upper class families, daughters were still considered possessions to be guarded and controlled
by the Victorian family which was ruled by men, fathers, uncles, grandfathers, or male guardians
who made all decisions for young women. The imprisonment in the tower could be viewed as a
metaphor for maintaining the young woman's purity, by keeping her out of the real world of
temptations.

"Possibly the most important, and most broadly felt pattern dominating the life of the Victorian
woman was what the reformer Jane Addams once called the "family claim." According to the
family claim, women, far more than men, were regarded as possessions of their families."

As a metaphor for the life of a Victorian women, the lady is held prisoner in a tower, which
could be symbolically viewed as her "family home," where she is bound by a curse which is also
symbolic of the control that her male protector imposes on her. She is restrained from engaging
in any illicit romances because purity, modesty and virginity were key to a Victorian woman's
potential marital arrangements. So daughters were held captive in their homes, protected,
guarded until a suitable marriage arrangement could be made by her father or male relative.

"The poem's popularity rests, more than anything else, on its embodiment of the highly complex
Victorian conception of woman, and the correlative Victorian attitude toward the home. The
overwhelming problems Victorian England faced created a psychological need to retreat into the
safety of the home where delicate spiritual values could be protected and preserved."

The lady in the tower, or the escaping teenager, leaves the confines and safety of her home to
seek romance, looking for her knight in shining armor, Lancelot, she runs away from home
longing to be embraced by love. She breaks the rules of her family, society and reduces her
stature as marriageable material, figuratively she is dead in this society, marked by a stain.

The lady dies after she leaves the tower, figuratively the young upper class Victorian young
woman who escapes from her family home to seek adventure and romance with a dashing
knight could be considered dead to her family since she has betrayed their trust and ruined their
reputation. Imagine if in "Pride and Prejudice" Lydia Bennett, through the intervention of Mr.
Darcy, did not get properly married to Mr. Wickham, she would be socially dead to her family,
killing all chances of a proper marriage for herself and her sisters.

12)How does the Lady of Shalott die?

Ans:-
The Lady of Shalott is under a curse. She lives alone in a tower with all her needs met, but she
is not allowed to look directly on the city of Camelot and its inhabitants or she will die.

For a long time, the Lady of Shalott is content to watch the towered city and its activities through
a mirror while she weaves. She seems to be emotionally frozen, as she "lives with little joy or
fear." Eventually she becomes "half sick" of watching the "shadows" of life in the mirror.

Then she sees and hears Sir Lancelot riding on his horse. She is so taken by the sight reflected
in the mirror that she turns and gazes directly on him. Her mirror cracks and the curse comes
upon her.

She leaves the tower, lies in a shallow boat, and floats down the river to Camelot. By the time
she gets there she has died and is a "pale, pale corpse."

Her inability to continue living a half life of watching the world go by and not being a part of it
kills her. She breaks the terms of the curse when she can no longer stand it and turns around to
look directly at Lancelot

13)Why did the Lady of Shalott die?

Ans:- Part III of the poem "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson describes a curse on
the Lady of Shalott. It states:

A curse is on her, if she stay

Her weaving, either night or day,

To look down to Camelot.

She can weave and look at the mirror to see the life outside her island, including the river
flowing down to Camelot, but if she stops weaving to look directly at the river, she will trigger the
curse.

One day, she sees Sir Lancelot in her mirror and goes to look out her window at him directly.
This triggers the curse. As a sign of this, her mirror cracks. When she realizes what has
happened, she goes outside and carves the name "The Lady of Shalott" on a shallow boat,
launches it on the river, and floats down to Camelot. When she arrives there, she is dead.