ENGL 431 Chapter 1: English 431 W2D2 RR
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Taking tropes seriously: language and violence in shakespeare"s. Thesis: in this essay i shall explore the decorum of poetic language in the rape of. I shall argue that both protagonists construe particular metaphors as if they were literally true, drawing apparently unwarranted conclusions from them, and that the narrative voice displays the same literalizing tendencies. I shall go on to show how and why the use and abuse of tropes should become such an important issue in. The rape of lucrece: explore the decorum of poetic language. Pg 9: lucrece acquires her own voice in the poem only at the moment when she is faced with violence. Metaphor for raping lucrece is equivalent to taking her fort: allows tarquin to depict rash and lawless act as coordinated and disciplined . Metaphor about his mental process being a military hierarchy: lucrece likens it to civil disorder.
