2/15 & 2/17 - Class Notes

Homework


- Memorize "These are counselors that feelingly persuade me what I am."
- Put most interesting thing in the first sentence
- Read pg. 130-180 for those who have the Ted Hughes book

Notes

- Educate by sophisticating the immagination

- More myths in "As You Like it"

• Cane and Abel, Jacob and Isaac 
• Parable of the prodigal son
• Orlando wrestling with Charles similar to David and Goliath

- Hero has to perform unfamiliar or magical task in order to rescue the damsel in distress.

- Hymen descending improbable

- Touchstone represents the city, Corin the rustic

- 3 Levels of time

• Objective - Jacques sense of time
• Subjective - moveable time, moving with time, moving in time
• Natrual - seasons, perpetual spring ambiance, the forest of Arden

- Cynical lovers opposite of romantic lovers

- "As You Like It" couples

• Orlando and Rosalind
• Oliver and Celia
• Touchstone and Audrey
• Silvius and Pheobe

- Differences between "As You Like It" and "Midsummer Night's Dream"

• Are the mythological folk still there?
• When is myth obvious or removed?

- What do you have when myth is removed? 

• Jacques' speech pg. 419
• Pain is what makes you feel alive
• Seven ages, each speaks differently
• Mewling baby
• Whining schoolboy
• Sighing lover
• Soldier of oaths
• Justice of wise saws and modern instances
• Manly voice of the lean and slippered pantaloon back to the whining schoolboy
• Lastly the second childishness and mere oblivion

- Miles gloriosus: the boastful soldier

- Theme of the dying king in the Holy Grail and "Alls Well That Ends Well"

• King can't produce, land can't produce
• Hero finds what heals the king
• Find holy grail (the bowl or the chalice) or the lance
• Symbols of man and woman, but have to ask the right question

- Progressively less mythological from "Midsummer's Night Dream" to "As You Like It" to "Alls Well"

• All literature is displaced myth - Frye

- Alls Well

• Helena is the hero
• Wedding is at the beginning and goes downhill from there
• Mother Goddess, triple form: Maiden, Mother, and Crone
• Countess - the mother with no husband and son leaving
• Lafew french translation - under fire, the alchemical fire
• Parolles translation - words

- Hughes Shakespearean formula

• Two nouns linked by two adjectives directed onto a third noun that startles reader into odd metaphorical life
• Line 57 pg. 573 - "One the catastrophe and heel of pastime"
• Line 198 pg. 576 - "Yet in this captious and intenible seive"