It is extremely distressing to hear that you have been expelled from your job. It is extremely infuriating, however, if you never expect that you will be removed from your occupation especially if you think that you are doing a superb job. Cardinal Wolsey experience this sensation as he receives a letter from his king, Henry VIII, that effectively removed him from his position as an advisor for his monarch. In his soliloquy, Cardinal Wolsey uses a choice diction and a furious tone to express his shock and awe of the news and delivers his final advice to his king in metaphors and allusion during his soliloquy.
Cardinal Wolsey is extremely furious about the loss of his position to the king. In an almost mocking manner, he questions the farewell he …show more content…
But he also wants to summarize his relation with the king and what will eventually happen to the king. He turns to alluding the change of seasons as his prime vehicle for describing it. The seasons he uses not only allude to his relationship with the king, but it also serves as a metaphor for any relationship to man and man, and man and nature. Cardinal Wolsey starts off with “to-day he puts forth/The tender leaves of hopes,”(Lines 3-4), meaning that at the beginning, there is greater hope and amity between two parties. Then, the season progresses, “to-morrow blossoms,/And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;”, indicating that around the middle of a relationship, great rewards are being reaped. But he ends its with “The Third day comes a frost, a killing frost,”(Line 6). This final line signifies the end of a great relationship and the start of a downward spiral to an eventual fall. The last part is special because he did not only directed it to himself, Cardinal Wolsey said “And the. He falls as I do.”(Line 9) This line foreshadows something dark about the future of the king, a path that he will take that will follow the demise of the
Cardinal Wolsey is extremely furious about the loss of his position to the king. In an almost mocking manner, he questions the farewell he …show more content…
But he also wants to summarize his relation with the king and what will eventually happen to the king. He turns to alluding the change of seasons as his prime vehicle for describing it. The seasons he uses not only allude to his relationship with the king, but it also serves as a metaphor for any relationship to man and man, and man and nature. Cardinal Wolsey starts off with “to-day he puts forth/The tender leaves of hopes,”(Lines 3-4), meaning that at the beginning, there is greater hope and amity between two parties. Then, the season progresses, “to-morrow blossoms,/And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;”, indicating that around the middle of a relationship, great rewards are being reaped. But he ends its with “The Third day comes a frost, a killing frost,”(Line 6). This final line signifies the end of a great relationship and the start of a downward spiral to an eventual fall. The last part is special because he did not only directed it to himself, Cardinal Wolsey said “And the. He falls as I do.”(Line 9) This line foreshadows something dark about the future of the king, a path that he will take that will follow the demise of the