Can anyone explain what "for he who lives more lives than one, more deaths that one must die" means?
2007-01-16 19:11:06 · 2 answers · asked by Lin F 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
As far as i can recall from my history lessons, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" actually refers to a murder of his spouse by a sergeant of cavalry garrisoned at Windsor Barracks during the 1880s. The chap murdered his wife so that he could live openly with his mistress whom he had supported as an extra wife for a good while. Perhaps this is the double life alluded too.
I would also repeat the old allegory that "a coward dies a thousand deaths but a hero dies but one."
2007-01-20 04:10:53 · answer #1 · answered by freddiem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a person lives two lives, they must therefore die twice and so on up the scale. It is a warning about Oscar's own double life of having a wife and children and being gay at the same time.
2007-01-17 03:37:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋