2/22 - Class Notes

- Paronomasia: word play with humorous or rhetorical effect

- "Original" always use with quotes

- The double language 

- Achilles heel

• Mythologically: Achilles dipped in waters of immortality by the heel, 
• depictions of arrow in the heel 
• Realistically: Tendon that when torn you can no longer walk

- Sigil - inscribed/painted symbol considered to have magical power, archaic: a seal

if you ponder images move up levels

tempest prospero - what else seest thou...

- Captious and intenible sieve - ordinary every day thing, so enormous it won't be able to be filtered out, mythological bag

• Captious - finding fault with
• Capacious - having a lot of space

- Plausive - that which produces superior fruit

- What do we talk about when we talk about love?

- Letter riddle pg. 586 - "When thou canst get the ring upon my finger, which never shall come off, and show me a child begotten of they body that I am father to, then call me husband; but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'"

• Helena becomes the magician, or the choreographer in order to make find the solution
• The bed trick

- Parolles most fantastically dressed of Shakespearean characters.

- Practical joke on Parolles

• Figure out what happens to him. What changes he undergoes. 

- Theme of death and resurrection

- Julian of Norwich

• "All shall be well and all manner of things shall be well."