ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lamont Library, Ironism, Shakespearean Comedy
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Comedy of remarriage trying to get them back together. Also a comedy that leads us to reflect the idea of appetite of pleasure of joy, something that is not prominent in ben franklin. Here characters don"t regard morality as separate from pleasure. Happiness and pleasure can go together with a moral way of being. He cures from it from reading an absorptionist art. They are not just together bc they grew up together, but they chose to get back together. 17th c, milton says convent of marriage is a mini of commonwealth, owe the common wealth participation w/cheerful convo. Whether america has achieved a more perfect union, human being, a new birth of freedom, successful in pursuit of happiness . Awakening in the end; tracy has her eyes open in the end. America will produce and recognize a natural aristocracy. Title; gesture in founding ideas of american society almost quoting a perfect union.
