Induction quotes Flashcards
“Richard…
the Conqueror”
-Shows Sly is uneducated.
Lord: (referring to sly):
juxtaposes
Lord: (referring to how to dress/treat sly):
“beast” “swine”, grim”, “loathsome”
“sweet clothes, rings”; “Fairest chamber”; “delicious banquet”; “heavenly sound.”
Lord: Balm his…
foul head in warm distilled waters.
Lord: (about Bartholemew): “see him dressed…
like a lady.”
Lord: (How Bartholemew should act)
“Soft low tongue”; “lowly courtesy”; “tempting kisses”; “declining head”.
Sly: I am Christopher Sly –
call me not ‘honor’ or ‘lordship’.
Lord: (Referring to activities sly can do):
“love hawking”; “Hawks”; “wilt thou hunt?”; “thy hounds”.
Lord + Serving man: (about Sly’s “wife”):
“a lady far more beautiful”; “lovely face”; “fairest creature”; “inferior to none”.
Sly: Am I a lord,
and have I such a lady? Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now?
Sly: “Richard the Conqueror”
-Shows Sly as uneducated.
-Cruel humor at the expense of the uneducated working class.
Lord: (referring to sly): “beast” “swine”, grim”, “loathsome”
Juxtaposes with:
Lord: (referring to how to dress/treat sly): “sweet clothes, rings”; “Fairest chamber”; “delicious banquet”; “heavenly sound.”
-lexical field of disgusting/bad things, grotesque imagery.
-lexical field of luxury.
-Juxtaposition highlights the way the Lord perceives the differences of the two classes.
-Dehumanizes the lower class.
-Cruel humor at the expense of the uneducated working class.
-Comical juxtaposition between sly in reality and the treatment of him - makes transformation more amusing - much like Petruchio telling Kate she sings ‘as sweetly as a nightingale.
foreshadows the cruel psychological games Petruchio will play on katherina - deceiving her and gaslighting her.
Lord: Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters.
-Juxtaposition highlights the way the Lord perceives the differences of the two classes.
-Cruel humor at the expense of the uneducated working class.
-Baptism imagery - baptized as the upper class - Holy water - blesses their circumstances
Lord: (about Bartholemew): “see him dressed like a lady.”
-Importance of costume in gender.
-Making the audience aware that everything in this play is performance.
- Is gender real if this is all it takes to be a woman, does this therefore challenge the oppression of women.
-Foreshadows Kate’s transformation into “ideal woman”
-Cross dressing was a common form of humor at the time.
“Soft low tongue”; “lowly courtesy”; “tempting kisses”; “declining head”.
-semantic field of idealized femininity and subsurvience, especially for the renaissance time.
-Describes ideal as subservient.
-All these behaviors juxtapose with the way Kate behaves.
-Batholemew - transforms into ideal woman - will inevitably transform back - does the same go for Kate and Bianca?
-Highlights the performative nature of gender - set of instructions - not authentic or genuine
Sly: I am Christopher Sly – call me not ‘honor’ or ‘lordship’.
-Fighting transformation - assertion of his own name.
-Foreshadows Kate resisting transformation - asserts her own name ‘Katherine’ - names are identity in the play - disguise change name - change identity.
-the fact that they use titles to convince him he is upper class, suggests titles are the only thing that divide the classes - reveals the shallow nature of class – uproots the class system.
