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)
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The term minion is used many times throughout the reading towards Gaveston. It can be used in a negative and positive way. I believe if the king were to use the term minion then it would be positive but since everyone else is using it, the term is negative. All the people who use it are people who seem to be jealous of the relationship Gaveston has with the king. Since Gaveston is from a low birth status it is as if they feel wronged by the treatment Gaveston receives. "Why do you thus incense your peers/That naturally would love and honour you,/But for that base and obscure Gaveston?" (1.1.98-100) I feel as if no one except the king likes Gaveston. The way the king is so protective of Gaveston is somewhat odd. It is almost as if Edward is in love with him and likewise with Gaveston. There is something a little erotic about the whole relationship. The very first lines of the play suggest that Edward I would not let the two gents be "friends." Now that the first Edward is dead, Gaveston and Edward II are free to romance through the land.
