English 3700 Lecture Notes - City Comedy, Irony, Main Plot
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Men and women are like animals driven by base desires, and instincts, amoral (ends justifying the means). Symbolic: the doves getting attacked at the vatican during the weekend. : influences: aristotle (unity of time (one day), place (everything happens in. Venice) and action (no real unity in action: main plot (about greed and deception) and subplot (follies of mankind))) p. 2 bottom of the prologue. Not a miser: (scrooge was a miser, he hoards money) he more extravagant and uses his money, living for the pleasures money brings. Gold is brighter than the sun/son (jesus christ). Usury: taking interest, lending people money and placing interest on it. Golden age (peace and prosperity) -> silver age -> bronze age -> iron age (evilest time, commercial world, capitalism) linking of sickness and greed (moral sickness). Riches corrupt the body and the mind: a travesty of the golden age. Pretending to be sick related to the sickness in his morals.
