Conversation Piece - Monday, December 8, 2008
"Oh, come not near me, sir; I shall defile you.
I am that of your blood was taken from you
For your better health. Look no more upon't
But cast it to the ground regardlessly;
Let the common sewer take it from distinction.
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing
Was prophet to the rest, bu ne'er believed;
Mine honor fell with him, and now my life."
(The Changeling V.iii.158-67)
I am that of your blood was taken from you
For your better health. Look no more upon't
But cast it to the ground regardlessly;
Let the common sewer take it from distinction.
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing
Was prophet to the rest, bu ne'er believed;
Mine honor fell with him, and now my life."
(The Changeling V.iii.158-67)
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Forest
Lauren makes a good point. The constant referral of the forest symbolizes events of a "chase" or a "hunt." When Titus and his sons are hunting with their hounds and horns, Saturninus brags about Roman hunting (Act II, ii, 19-20). Aaron described it as a "wide and spacious, and many unfrequented plots there are, fitted by kind of rape and villainy" (Act II, ii, 114-116). The forest is definitely not associated with fun and pleasant times.
