Sunday, 3 February 2013

Notes from Lesson 4


Petrachan Sonnet

Aspects of Shakespearean poems

14 lines for a sonnet
Rhyming couplets
Iambic Pentameter
Quatrains
Volta
Love  ( comparing to flower – beauty -)
Profound themes for romantic sentiment.

Don john cannot speak about love
Don pedro is left alone

Imagery always comes back to nature
Nature is untouched, purity
Nature is untamed, in controlled, will blossom and bloom , continue to be beautiful. A creation of god.

Contrasts with Beatrice and Benedicks gulling,

Much harsher with Beatrice has she has been hurt by him already- by making it seem er fault they try and sway her
Rather benedick is obviously more emotional as he got hurt at the masked ball by her mick taking- it doesn’t take as much to sway him.
Target her flaws, rather they attack his feelings.

Similar elements
1 reverse pycholodgy
attack on personality
both have fear of rejection
both are incapable of love

Beatrices last speech is a sonnet, she has an epiphany upon realisation on how she loves Benedick

Deception so far in Much Ado-

Beatrice pretends she does not recognise Benedick at the masked ball as to openly upset him and criticise his wit, calling him a " Jester ". Neither good nor bad.
Don John persuades Claudio that Don Pedro is " wooing [ Hero ] for himself "this is obviously bad deception.
The Gullings of both Beatrice and Benedick are a form of good deception, making them become aware of their affection for each other. Particularly Beatrice as she recites a sort of sonnet about him- telling of he " adieu " to her old ways, accepting of Benedick. The rhythm of this shows how she has become " in Note " in tune, with the song [ story ] music of love.


1 comment:

  1. Ben.

    Would you mind awfully removing 'Rory's interpretation' from this post or at least rephrasing it.

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