ENG220Y5 Lecture Notes - Double Entendre, Aubade, Mercutio
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Characters" inability to bring together the language and the reality they are trying to control. Foreshadowing (grave = wedding bed (1. 5. 132), garden = death (2. 1. 106); kill thee with much cherishing (2. 1. 228)) *play tries to argue that words don"t matter, however characters show that language is important. *mercutio"s death makes it certain that this is a tragedy, not a comedy. *his death took the joy out of the language in the play. ): deceit as authenticity (contrast poetry solitary, unproductive, masturbatory [2. 1. 9, 34 ff. ]) Dominance of erotics of language over erotics of the body (2. 3. 132-33) Banished and the power of words (3. 2. 112-127; cf. *almost like the word is more important than the reality, saying the word makes the reality worse than what it is. 3. 5: the aubade: language can no longer control the world. *romeo and juliet fantasizes that their language can change reality (if romeo is not.
