Euh... je dois t´avouer que pour cette énigme là j´ai utilisé une soluce lol... Le code est :
8352
Je te mets la soluce ( elle est en anglais!) :
ITEMS NEEDED:
SHAKESPEARE ANTHOLOGY 1: Romeo and Juliet
SHAKESPEARE ANTHOLOGY 2: King Lear
SHAKESPEARE ANTHOLOGY 3: Macbeth
SHAKESPEARE ANTHOLOGY 4: Hamlet
SHAKESPEARE ANTHOLOGY 5: Othello
First thing:
This riddle gives you the sequence in which to rearrange the books.
Second thing:
The roman numerals on the back of the books are the keycode.
Solving the riddle:
This particular riddle requires a little knowledge on Shakespeare.
If you have read one or two of those books and remember vaguely what happened,
you should be fine though.
If you haven´t read them but still want to find out without bothering to read
several hundred pages worth of text or worse, go to the theatre 5 times,
go here:
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/guides/summaries/shakespeare_summaries.htm
Now, here´s how the verses relate to the books,
of course this is all just my version, but it works out:
1st VERSE:
The first word at thy left hand:
We start from the left side. ^^
a false lunacy, a madly dancing man.
Queen Gertrud protects Hamlet by stating he is insane.
The gravedigger/clown guy hamlet meets on the graveyard.
Hearing unhearable words, drawn
Hamlet, being called by his father´s ghost
to a beloved´s grave --- and there,
Yorick´s grave to be precise. ´To be or not to be...´
mayhap, true madness at last.
Well, he seemed rather mad in the end.
As did this one playing at death,
Juliet, trying to feign her own death.
find true death at the last.
As you should know. ^^
Killing a nameless lover,
she pierced a heart rent by sorrow.
Her own, in fact.
Doth lie invite truth?
This would hold true for most Shakespearean tragedies.
Doth verity but wear the mask of falsehood?
This is supposed to be about Othello,
but I can´t explain why.
Ah, thou pityful, thou miserable ones.
Othello, too, can´t see why though.
Still amidst lies, though the end cometh not,
wherefore yearn for death?
King Lear yearned for it, but it wouldn´t come.
Instead he survived his own daughter... poor guy.
Will thou attend thy beloved? Truths and lies, life and death:
The only daughter that was truly loyal to Lear, Cordelia.
a game of turning white to black and black to white.
This would have matched Othello perfectly...
ah, well.
Is not a silence brimming with love more precious than flattery?
A peaceful slumber preferred to a throne besmirched with blood?
Like the throne Macbeth gets by murdering old King Duncan.
One vengeful man spilled blood for two;
Anybody out for revenge? Well, Hamlet for one,
to avenge his murdered father.
Two youths shed tears for three;
Matches only Romeo and Juliet and perfectly at that.
Three witches disappeared thusly;
You know, those from Macbeth:
´By the pricking of my thumbs,
something wicked this way comes. ´
And only the four keys remain.
Nope, not the great Speare this time. ^^
So, you might wonder, what do those last lines mean?
Obviously they contain several of the aforementioned plays.
Maybe you have to do something with the corresponding numbers.
Q: I just can´t solve it. Give me something to work with.
A: In detail:
The solution to this puzzle is:
Hamlet,Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
In Roman numerals IV, I, V, II, III. ( Arabic: 4,1,5,2,3)
Q: Ok, that´s the sequence, i´m sure of it. BUT IT WON´T WORK!!
A: There´s one more verse to be taken into consideration...
Q: Right, you know-it-all... what´s with all the bleeding and crying?
A: Well, since the characters that are described here are from books that
were already mentioned before, you might have to change their
corresponding numbers...
Q: And what bloody characters are those supposed to be?
A: Think now. Who was out for revenge? Someone who lost a person very close
to him maybe? Someone who would kill to get his right? Two youths. That
sound familiar? Two young people? Did they know each other? Did they like
one another maybe? Three witches. By the pricking of my thumbs,
something wicked this way comes.
Q: Right, I get it now. What do I do with the numbers now?
A: Rather hard to hint at that. The vengeful man spilled blood for two...
TWICE as much as that for one man. The two youths shed tears for three...
THREE TIMES as much as one alone would have been able to shed.
The witches disappeared. There were witches here.
They are gone now. They left NOTHING behind, absolutely nothing.
Q: I give up, that riddle is stupid and totally incomprehensible and the
fact that you wasted precious time and energy with it, fills my heart with
sadness.
A: Strange, I felt similar about all of this. ^^
Here´s the full explanation though:
So the vengeful man spilled blood for two, he should get credit for that.
Let´s multiply his number with two.
2x4=8 ( 8,1,5,2,3)
Two youths shed tears for three? That´s not fair, they should
get their value multiplied with three for that, too.
3x1=3 ( 8,3,5,2,3)
The three witches disappear. Well, good riddance. ^^
( 8,3,5,2)
Now really only four keys remain:
8352
