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these are so hard to compare omg please help!
themes
qoutes
what questions could come up??
any help would be great lol
themes
qoutes
what questions could come up??
any help would be great lol
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(Original post by imogen123)
these are so hard to compare omg please help!
themes
qoutes
what questions could come up??
any help would be great lol
these are so hard to compare omg please help!
themes
qoutes
what questions could come up??
any help would be great lol
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#3
Themes that I would like to come up are:
deception and disguise
flattery
seduction and its consequences
argument
role of women
relationships with God
character flaws
deception and disguise
flattery
seduction and its consequences
argument
role of women
relationships with God
character flaws
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(Original post by bilalakkouche)
Themes that I would like to come up are:
deception and disguise
flattery
seduction and its consequences
argument
role of women
relationships with God
character flaws
Themes that I would like to come up are:
deception and disguise
flattery
seduction and its consequences
argument
role of women
relationships with God
character flaws
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(Original post by Samboy232)
Sounds good. I havent really thought about the role of women - any ideas for volpone?
Sounds good. I havent really thought about the role of women - any ideas for volpone?
Celia is objectified and Lady would be is laughed about - jonson criticsing 17th century portrayal of women
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I think celia is one of jonson's weakest characters. She's just kinda naive and boring. Maybe that shows that he doesn't really understand women or maybe it's just that he isnt very good at creating good characters. I guess thats all relevant - what do you think? Eve is much more interesting to me, but milton never shuts up about her being inferior to adam.
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#8
I barely have any for volpone yet, but paradise lost i'm able to remember 4 or 5 for each theme that i try to think of
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Hi guys! Thought I'd scrape onto this thread as I'm also doing these texts and don't know things...
Right now I'm making huge A3 revision posters (coloured card) in the form of a theme title at the top, then making a table comparing Volpone/PL quotes,then underlining quotes that particularly link together in different coloured pens. I don't know anything and it's the only thing that's mildly working. I can't even plan an essay yet.
So far I've made tables for: Temptation, Greed, Flattery, and Persuasion. I intend to make tables for Morality, Pathos, possibly Use of Logic/Reason, and possibly Women
Imo that would be quite a hard question if it came up though as Celia and Lady Would-Be are the only ladies in Volpone! But I guess that Celia/Corvino and Lady Would-Be/Sir Pol show quite different power dynamics in marriage, and I guess you could compare it with PL, and talk about Milton's views on marriage/divorce?
Does anybody have any critics' views? All I have is the Yale university dude from the video that someone posted on the other thread, but I don't know his name any names would be appreciated!
(But I swear AO3 is only 5 marks anyway, and AO4 is the main thing (10 marks)...?)
Right now I'm making huge A3 revision posters (coloured card) in the form of a theme title at the top, then making a table comparing Volpone/PL quotes,then underlining quotes that particularly link together in different coloured pens. I don't know anything and it's the only thing that's mildly working. I can't even plan an essay yet.
So far I've made tables for: Temptation, Greed, Flattery, and Persuasion. I intend to make tables for Morality, Pathos, possibly Use of Logic/Reason, and possibly Women
(Original post by Samboy232)
Sounds good. I havent really thought about the role of women - any ideas for volpone?
Sounds good. I havent really thought about the role of women - any ideas for volpone?
Does anybody have any critics' views? All I have is the Yale university dude from the video that someone posted on the other thread, but I don't know his name
any names would be appreciated! (But I swear AO3 is only 5 marks anyway, and AO4 is the main thing (10 marks)...?)
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I think celia is the woman that all 17th century men want. Loyal, obdient, virtuous, quiet, reserved.
whereas Eve is the polar opposite, that's why she is blamed
whereas Eve is the polar opposite, that's why she is blamed
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#11
The thing that is marked highest on this is context and structure so always relate points to context. Read up about milton and jonson
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(Original post by bilalakkouche)
I think celia is the woman that all 17th century men want. Loyal, obdient, virtuous, quiet, reserved.
whereas Eve is the polar opposite, that's why she is blamed
I think celia is the woman that all 17th century men want. Loyal, obdient, virtuous, quiet, reserved.
whereas Eve is the polar opposite, that's why she is blamed
maybe celia is so unbelievable because she is an ideal - doesnt really exist
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(Original post by Samboy232)
I think celia is one of jonson's weakest characters. She's just kinda naive and boring. Maybe that shows that he doesn't really understand women or maybe it's just that he isnt very good at creating good characters. I guess thats all relevant - what do you think? Eve is much more interesting to me, but milton never shuts up about her being inferior to adam.
I think celia is one of jonson's weakest characters. She's just kinda naive and boring. Maybe that shows that he doesn't really understand women or maybe it's just that he isnt very good at creating good characters. I guess thats all relevant - what do you think? Eve is much more interesting to me, but milton never shuts up about her being inferior to adam.
Also, imo, Celia/Bonario seem to be the voice of morality in the play while in PL it is Milton's narrator/Muse. It's interesting to compare Celia's protests towards Corvino/Volpone around the rape scene - e.g "O, God and his good angels!" "Is shame fled human breasts?" to the morality/immorality of PL - the narrator Milton is always (annoyingly) stepping in to say e.g. "No more of talk where God or angel guest with Man" (I have my books in front of me as you can tell...) or "Much failing, hapless Eve!"
I don't know...
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(Original post by afeatherofabird)
Celia and Bonario are both super boring... I thought that maybe Jonson is just emphasising how sometimes the immoral characters are the most interesting? Mosca and Volpone's use of disguise/deception is certainly more interesting that the one-dimensional Bonario and Celia. So the audience condemn their immorality but at the same time they're tricked into being attracted to these terrible people (a lot like how Milton gets us to feel sorry for Satan) which makes them question their own moral compass.
Also, imo, Celia/Bonario seem to be the voice of morality in the play while in PL it is Milton's narrator/Muse. It's interesting to compare Celia's protests towards Corvino/Volpone around the rape scene - e.g "O, God and his good angels!" "Is shame fled human breasts?" to the morality/immorality of PL - the narrator Milton is always (annoyingly) stepping in to say e.g. "No more of talk where God or angel guest with Man" (I have my books in front of me as you can tell...) or "Much failing, hapless Eve!"
I don't know...
Celia and Bonario are both super boring... I thought that maybe Jonson is just emphasising how sometimes the immoral characters are the most interesting? Mosca and Volpone's use of disguise/deception is certainly more interesting that the one-dimensional Bonario and Celia. So the audience condemn their immorality but at the same time they're tricked into being attracted to these terrible people (a lot like how Milton gets us to feel sorry for Satan) which makes them question their own moral compass.
Also, imo, Celia/Bonario seem to be the voice of morality in the play while in PL it is Milton's narrator/Muse. It's interesting to compare Celia's protests towards Corvino/Volpone around the rape scene - e.g "O, God and his good angels!" "Is shame fled human breasts?" to the morality/immorality of PL - the narrator Milton is always (annoyingly) stepping in to say e.g. "No more of talk where God or angel guest with Man" (I have my books in front of me as you can tell...) or "Much failing, hapless Eve!"
I don't know...
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#15
Milton is frustrated because of his own relationship with women. Married 3 times and 2 died through child birth.
Jonson i way cooler about women. He describes two completely opposite women (Celia and Lady Would be) and shows how men are not content with either.
He's critiquing the 17th century view of women, as he is suggesting no body is perfect. Therefore he disagrees with Milton's portryal of Eve
Jonson i way cooler about women. He describes two completely opposite women (Celia and Lady Would be) and shows how men are not content with either.
He's critiquing the 17th century view of women, as he is suggesting no body is perfect. Therefore he disagrees with Milton's portryal of Eve
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#16
Aslong as you back up each point you make with quotes from the text and sometimes context as well as using atleast one critic in each paragraph it will be hard for the examiners to take marks away from you.
It's not like history or anything like that, they care mostly about your understanding of the texts and most interpretations are correct because there is no right or wrong GENERALLY in english lit
It's not like history or anything like that, they care mostly about your understanding of the texts and most interpretations are correct because there is no right or wrong GENERALLY in english lit
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#17
Does anyone have any critics views/performance stuff for Volpone?
I have loads of critics for PL but only a couple for Volpone...
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#18
I don't think that it's necessarily vital to have a critic for each paragraph in this question, considering that the majority of Ao3 on this question at least, is tested on comparison between the two texts.
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Ohh right. I didn't realise that comparison comes under AO3 - thanks for that. 
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#20
Hi would anyone mind sharing their quotes/critics? I've just started Volpone and gonna read PL soon but would like some prep!
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