ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Family Reunion, Active Listening, Trochaic Tetrameter
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The riddle is not very hard to solve, and yet it is the one thing antiochus doesn"t want anyone to know. Gower/ chorus a figure that is telling us about what we"re about to see, Gower speaks the end of the play, he speaks in epilogues, clowns, puck, prospero, It is really interested in this adventure journey. How nature matters in romance plays, in the tempest, but also here, where there is no prospero conducting the weather. Marina thinks she has been saved, only to be picked up by pirates, deserted in a brothel who struggles to hold onto her virginity. A father, and a daughter who is trying to figure out her history here we have a mother figure that we know has survived, but pericles does not. He gets both his wife, and his daughter back. Romance is a genre that is interested in questions of loss and restoration, forgiveness, family bonds that are broken, and restored.
