Trace the jealousy of Leontes as it progresses throughout Act 1 Scene 2 with close reference to language analysis.
Title: Trace the jealousy of Leontes as it progresses throughout Act 1 Scene 2 with close reference to language analysis.
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1905 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Trace the jealousy of Leontes as it progresses throughout Act 1 Scene 2 with close reference to language analysis.
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1905 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
At the beginning of act 1, Polixenes proclaims his intent to return home. He has been staying as a guest in the court of Leontes for 'nine changes of the watery star' (nine months), and he worries that troubles may start at home if he stays away much longer. Leontes tries, without any success, to persuade Polixenes to stay a short while longer. At Leontes' request, Hermione attempts to convince Polixenes to stay. She is powerful …showed first 75 words of 1905 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1905 total…thee / I saw his heart in's face' He also says he has sympathy and fear for Hermione; 'This jealousy / Is for a precious creature; as she's rare / Must it be great, and as his person's mighty / must it be violent' , 'Fear o'ershades me' Polixenes replies that 'I shall respect thee as a father if / Thou bear'st my life off. Hence! Let us avoid' He is telling Camillo that he would not forget his good deed.