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Compassion
The play Twelfth Night is named as such for its representation of All Kings Day. Where upon this holiday was originally supposed to celebrate the three kings/wise-men who came and brought gifts to baby Jesus. But according to history it turned into more of a crazy party around the time of the writing of this play. I believe that this play is a representation of that. Within twelfth night there are several examples of characters abandoning there since of reason, or possible showing they had none to begin with. Most notable is Malvolio in scene 5 of act 2 when he reads the letter. He automatically assumes the letter is addressed to him. He then proceeds to absurdly attempt to justify his claim, saying “M, O, A, I; this simulation …show more content…
It is a classic Shakespearian sonnet in that every other line rhymes except the last two which rhyme with each other. The content is a little misleading at first. The narrator starts by describing how his mistress’s eye’s where not as brilliant as the sun. Second that coral is redder than her lips. Then that her breasts are dull brown compared to snow. These are kind of mean things to say. A majority of love poems don’t involve insults. So starting with them sounds like this poem is going to be sarcastic, or like a mean poem about how dissatisfied the narrator is with his lover. How could anyone find such fault in their love? Her eyes cannot be like the sun. Her lips cannot possibly be as red as coral. Coral being more than likely the reddest thing that people knew of. Maybe a flower, or possibly blood being reddest thing. But flowers is going to be used in the next line and repeating that would sound bad and blood not being all to romantic. Nor could anyone’s skin (except maybe an albino) could compare to snow. Shakespeare compares her to their images of perfection completely aware of the fact that the things compared to the mistress are far more than she could
Compassion
The play Twelfth Night is named as such for its representation of All Kings Day. Where upon this holiday was originally supposed to celebrate the three kings/wise-men who came and brought gifts to baby Jesus. But according to history it turned into more of a crazy party around the time of the writing of this play. I believe that this play is a representation of that. Within twelfth night there are several examples of characters abandoning there since of reason, or possible showing they had none to begin with. Most notable is Malvolio in scene 5 of act 2 when he reads the letter. He automatically assumes the letter is addressed to him. He then proceeds to absurdly attempt to justify his claim, saying “M, O, A, I; this simulation …show more content…
It is a classic Shakespearian sonnet in that every other line rhymes except the last two which rhyme with each other. The content is a little misleading at first. The narrator starts by describing how his mistress’s eye’s where not as brilliant as the sun. Second that coral is redder than her lips. Then that her breasts are dull brown compared to snow. These are kind of mean things to say. A majority of love poems don’t involve insults. So starting with them sounds like this poem is going to be sarcastic, or like a mean poem about how dissatisfied the narrator is with his lover. How could anyone find such fault in their love? Her eyes cannot be like the sun. Her lips cannot possibly be as red as coral. Coral being more than likely the reddest thing that people knew of. Maybe a flower, or possibly blood being reddest thing. But flowers is going to be used in the next line and repeating that would sound bad and blood not being all to romantic. Nor could anyone’s skin (except maybe an albino) could compare to snow. Shakespeare compares her to their images of perfection completely aware of the fact that the things compared to the mistress are far more than she could