ENGL 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Anzio, Molehill, Volumnia
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End of 3. 3: coriolanus is banished from rome. Line 118: "there"s no more to be said, but he is banished/ as enemy to the people and his country. / It shall be so!: power of declaring what is lawful in city has passed from patricians to people, coriolanus is sacrifice for this transition. Line 121: "you common cry of curs, whose breath i hate/ as reek o"th" rotten fens, whose love i prize/ as the dead carcasses of unburied men/ that do corrupt my air: i banish you!" "curs" = dogs w/ bobbed tails that hunt for rats. Suggests their breath smells b/c it"s inconstant & dishonest (made him consul then took it back: whose love i prize/ as the dead carcasses of unburied men. Despising/ for you the city, thus i turn my back. / there is a world elsewhere. " Ironic b/c there is not a world elsewhere for him.
