Absalom and Achitophel advice of the double agent Hushai over the good advice of Achitophel. Achitophel, realising that the rebellion is doomed to failure, goes home and hangs himself. Absalom is killed (against David's explicit commands) after getting caught by his hair in the thick branches of a great oak tree: "His head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on" (NRSV 2 Sam. 18:9). The death of his son, Absalom, causes David enormous personal grief. A second allegory in the poem, beginning on line 425, is the
Caught in a Free State Caught in a Free State Caught in a Free State was a dramatised television series made by RTÉ in 1983. This four-part series was about German spies in neutral Ireland during World War II, known in Ireland as "The Emergency". The series was written by Brian Lynch, with music by Seóirse Bodley and directed by Peter Ormrod. The series was the winner of the best drama award at the Banff World Television Festival in Canada and also won a Jacob's Award in Ireland. Parts of the dialogue were recorded in German with English subtitles, partly in the hope of a