ENGL 2P80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Pandarus, Hector
1 Apr 2016
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Time and its relation to value, love and self-identity. It"s a major theme not only in this play, but also of his sonnet sequence. There are a number of attempts to step outside of time. The play shows us the temporal fragility that all the characters endure. Time stays still, yet moves forward, it opens possibilities yet shows us the inevitable, it"s productive and destructive. Both greeks and trojans sufer this paradox of time. 1. 3 (read final!!!) address a group of greek commanders to discuss the greek forces camped outside of troy. Time frustrates human purpose and connects human action to wandering. Agamemnon recaps the inevitable frustrations produced by time as productive. The ability to persevere and to remain the same through time, this persistent constancy he argues is not founded in love. Time frustrations may destroy human plans, but they produce human virtue, or distinguish those are virtuous from those who only seem to be so.
