English 3700 Lecture Notes - Drawing Straws, Bedroom Farce
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Carnival turns sinister (violent), reversal of role, not a silent victim. She"s her own advocate, defending herself against willmore, stolen her heart, angelica is operating in a world where people say what they mean. Gain power back from him, power over his life: does the play portray blunt as a sympathetic or unsympathetic character, as soon as he tries to rape florinda he loses sympathy of his foolishness. Lucetta tricking blunt, willmore tricking angelica into sleeping with him for free. Blunt refused to believe she was a prostitute. Opportunity for deception and crime in the carnival. When florinda comes to ask for sanctuary he doesn"t believe her and desires to dominate her. Has to be forgiven in order for it to be a comic play. Willmore doesn"t disguise himself physically but uses language instead. Doesn"t deceive helena but does manage to manipulate angelica. Sense of repetition: potential to become a revenge tragedy.
