ENG220H1 Lecture : The Rape of Lucrece
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Which, having all, all could not satisfy so much all! a rhetorical figure = epizeuxis, a repetition of two words with no other in between, for emphasis. T"s yearning for something, but no sooner he has it, it does not satisfy like prolexis (foreshadowing) face to face confrontation. L does not see his evil she"s never coped with evil eyes, does not understand his looks that speak she"s the incarnation of innocence. T becomes a figuration of weakness and femininity. (155-68) t"s worrying about whether he can do the right thing, how he"ll be thought of. T speaking directly to his sword, phallic. word for vagina is sheath. he"ll sheath his sword, so he"ll also rape l. O: same shape as 0 cipher, an alphabet, number system, symbolic figuration, also a code. Freud idea of penis envy and castration, not new. House refers to the architectural home and the genealogy and linage, directly dependent on the female body.
