ENG220H1 Lecture 9: All's Well That Ends Well - Shakespeare’s Body
Document Summary
Shakespeare"s body - all"s well that ends well. Scene of exposure: play is a satire; expose people for who they are. Reductive reducing people down to their basic elements. Corporeal dimension (we are all the same because we all have bodies) Sex scene - he is turning his will into flesh (penis) organ is doing the thinking for him (reduction to a part of his body) Satire is a kind of anatomization to see how people work, and a diagnosis people that are ailing (what is wrong with them) Circular play: 1. 1. 1-2 bertram as a husband (people being married to the wrong person). Leveling levels things out, we are all the same (high and low) Bertram insist on difference between him and helena finding the right difference. Satirizing the fantasies of a romantic comedy. 2. 3-116-143 metaphor of blood: we are all the same when blood is all mixed together uneasy image parallels the uneasiness of marrying against class.
