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Besides being physically trapped in a tower, the Lady of Shallot is isolated in part because she is fey, a member of the fairy people whose very nature frighten both the common and noble people. True or False?

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The statement that the Lady of Shalott's isolation is due to her being feared as a fairy is false; her isolation is a result of a mysterious curse, not her nature.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question asks whether the Lady of Shalott is isolated because she is a member of the fairy people, with this nature causing fear among common and noble people. This statement is false. In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem 'The Lady of Shalott,' the Lady's isolation is due to a mysterious curse that confines her to the tower, forcing her to weave images she sees in a mirror and forbidding her from looking directly at Camelot. References in the poem to her being 'fey' or associated with the fairy are not about her lineage but rather suggest an otherworldliness or a cursed fate. Her isolation is not a result of her nature frightening others, but from the constraints of the curse she bears.

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