Answers to SWORDS handout 3

Extract 1 & 2

1) I feel that he is a cruel and dangerous man because Lee Shan calls him a "bloody butcher". I will not trust a promise by Lu Bu because Lee Shan says that "he is the kind that eats up his own mother the minute he is born", which means that he is a very ungrateful person. If he can be cruel to his own mother, I don't think he will hesitate to be cruel to anyone, lest to say keep a promise.

2) "how the demon often wears an angelic mask" or "don't let his young, handsome face deceive you"
You will not think badly of Lu Bu if you meet him in the streets for the first time because his appearance shows no sign of the cruelty within.

3) They call him a "bloody butcher", "wolk" and "demon" that "gobbles down anything edible". The language of 'devouring' is used. Cicada's fate is in the hands of the PM and he is about to sacrifice her to Lu Bu's appetite.

Extract 3

1) No/yes (depending on your point of view).
Lu Bu is not only ungrateful, cruel and greedy, he is also a womanizer with unrefined manners. He "stares" at Cicada without any sense of propriety or decorum.

2) (many possible answers) Lu Bu only sees Cicada as a gift meant for "political alliance" and not a person in her own right.

3) (again, many possible answers) Yes, Lu Bu is a coarse, unrefined soldier because he is unable to finish his sentence or find the appropriate word to praise Cicada's beauty, and when that happens, he switches the conversation, asking when he might marry Cicada, showing that he is only concerned with possessing her.