ENGLISH 3R06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Cupid
21 Nov 2017
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Every year there is an adonis festival in sestos. Obviously they meet at a festival for a tragic love story-> another mini epic simile. It seems as though hero is surrounded by all this carnality. The love arrow flies from her eyes to his eyes. He says why are you worshipping venus you are so much more beautiful than her. And she needs to listen to him even though he is so much lower than her on a hierarchical level. If you don"t play the harp, the harp will no longer be in tune-> in reference. They both want each other sexually to a woman unintentional. Leander being the prey-> falls under her spell because she is so beautiful. She looks incredibly dangerous but she is not purposely harmful. Marlowe puts her in this situation to show that she may seem dangerous and powerful but in fact is not. Hero being the predator-> she isn"t actually in charge, it was.
