English 3700 Lecture Notes - Unrequited Love, Bedroom Farce, Breeches Role
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February 14, 2014 english (happy valentine"s day!) If melantha is the most comic character, who do you think is the most tragic: someone in the heroic plot line, amalthea loves the prince and doesn"t get a happy ending. The woman the king wants the prince to marry. Unrequited love in the woman (turning around the role). Language suggests that she is so in love. Can"t live without him, let herself waste away. P. 50 her final speech, (pairing with what she said in act 4) going to go to a convent and wait for death: almost death of palmara, constantly being tested by fate. Was going to be set on a boat with food for 3 days then she would starve. Is there evidence that suggests doralice and rhodophil were ever in love: there was lust but he got bored. Attraction and lust, not transcending love that is evident in the tragic plot.
