Please choose ONE passage from each document and write an analysis on the passages. Write in complete, grammatically accurate, sentences. Begin by noting why the lines are important in the text as a whole, then show in as much detail as you can manage what is interesting and/or effective about them. DO NOT SIMPLY SUMMARIZE THE PASSAGES.
Choose one passage per document, in total 5 passages.
Each analysis should be half a page.
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CHOOSE ONE PASSAGE
These aren’t essays, so they don’t need introductions, conclusions or notes, but they must be coherently written in complete, grammatically accurate, sentences. Begin by noting why the lines are important in the text as a whole, then show in as much detail as you can manage what is interesting and/or effective about them. Do not reproduce ideas or comments from the discussion forum or the lecture.
Papers should be no longer than one double-spaced page in length. A paragraph is fine.
HOTSPUR:
[shall it be said]
That men of your nobility and power
Did gage them both in an unjust behalf
As both of you—God pardon it!—have done
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose
And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
I.iii.172-76
FALSTAFF:
Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee, now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses’ vein.
II.iv.370-74
GLENDOWER:
At my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets, and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shaked like a coward.
III.i.12-16
HOTSPUR:
Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath, and leave ‘In sooth’,
And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,
To velvet-guards and Sunday citizens.
III.i.248-51
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KING HENRY IV:
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
My presence, like a robe pontifical,
Ne’er seen but wondered at; and so my state,
Seldom, but sumptuous, showed like a feast
And won by rareness such solemnity.
III.ii.55-59
PRINCE HENRY:
For every honour sitting on his helm,
Would they were multitudes, and on my head
My shames redoubled!
III.ii.142-44
CHOOSE ONE PASSAGE
These aren’t essays, so they don’t need introductions, conclusions or notes, but they must be coherently written in complete, grammatically accurate, sentences. Begin by noting why the lines are important in the text as a whole, then show in as much detail as you can manage what is interesting and/or effective about them. Do not reproduce ideas or comments from the discussion forum or the lecture.
Papers should be no longer than one double-spaced page in length. A paragraph is fine.
Celia:
We still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,
And wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable.
I.iii.71-74
First Lord:
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans
That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat
Almost to bursting, and the big round tears
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.
- i. 36-40
Orlando:
But, poor old man, thou prun’st a rotten tree,
That cannot so much as a blossom yield,
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry.
II.iv.64-66
Touchstone:
I remember when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take
that for coming a-night to Jane Smile, and I remember the kissing of her batlet, and the cow’s dugs that her pretty chopped hands had milked…
II.iv.43-47
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Orlando:
Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love;
And thou thrice-crownèd queen of night, survey
With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,
Thy huntress’ name that my full life doth sway.
III.ii.1-4
Corin:
… that the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep; and that a great cause opf night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred…
III. ii.. 24-29
CHOOSE ONE PASSAGE
These aren’t essays, so they don’t need introductions, conclusions or notes, but they must be coherently written in complete, grammatically accurate, sentences. Begin by noting why the lines are important in the text as a whole, then show in as much detail as you can manage what is interesting and/or effective about them. Do not reproduce ideas or comments from the discussion forum or the lecture.
Papers should be no longer than one double-spaced page in length. A paragraph is fine.
Feste:
No, indeed, sir. The Lady Olivia has no flly. She will keep no Fool, sir, till she be married, and Fools are as like husbands as pilchers are to herrings: the husband’s the bigger. I am indeed not her Fool but her corrupter of words.
III.i.34-38
Olivia:
Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honour, truth and everything,
I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
III.i.156-59
Malvolio:
Sad, lady? I could be sad. This does make some obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering, but what of that? If it plesae the eye of one, it is with me as the very true sonnet is: “Please one, and please all.”
III.iv.21-24
Sebastian:
What relish is in this? How runs the stream?
Or am I mad, or else this is a dream.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
IV.i.63-66
Orsino:
You, uncivil lady,
To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars
My soul the faithful’stoff’rings have breathed out
That e’er devotion tendered—what shall I do?
V.i.114-17
CHOOSE ONE PASSAGE
These aren’t essays, so they don’t need introductions, conclusions or notes, but they must be coherently written in complete, grammatically accurate, sentences. Begin by noting why the lines are important in the text as a whole, then show in as much detail as you can manage what is interesting and/or effective about them. Do not reproduce ideas or comments from the discussion forum or the lecture.
Papers should be no longer than one double-spaced page in length. A paragraph is fine.
As You Like It
Jaques: …it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
- i. 15-19
Silvius:
It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion, and all made of wishes,
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all obedience…
V.ii.89-93
Twelfth Night
Viola:
Lady, you are the cruellest she alive,
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.
- v. 230-32
Feste:
Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal.
- iv. 72 – 73
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Viola: She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm I’the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
- iv. 109-14
CHOOSE ONE PASSAGE
These aren’t essays, so they don’t need introductions, conclusions or notes, but they must be coherently written in complete, grammatically accurate, sentences. Begin by noting why the lines are important in the text as a whole, then show in as much detail as you can manage what is interesting and/or effective about them. Do not reproduce ideas or comments from the discussion forum or the lecture.
Papers should be no longer than one double-spaced page in length. A paragraph is fine.
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I Henry IV
HOTSPUR:
They come like sacrifices in their trim,
And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them.
IV.114-17
FALSTAFF:
Well, if Percy be alive, I’ll pierce him. If he do come in my way, so; if he do not, if I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life, which I can save, so; if not, honour comes unlooked for, and there’s an end.
V.iii.54-60
PRINCE HENRY:
and think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more.
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
Nor can one England brook a double reign
Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.
V.iv.62-66
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Henry V
CHORUS:
For ‘tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there, jumping o’er times,
Turning th’accomplishment of many years
Into an hourglass—
Prologue, ll. 28-32
KING HARRY:
for many a thousand widows
Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands,
Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;
Ay, some are yet ungotten and unborn
That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin’s scorn.
I.ii.284-88
PISTOL:
O hound of Crete, think’st thou my spouse to get?
No, to the spital go,
And from the powd’ring tub of infamy
Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid’s kind,
Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse.
II.i. 71-75
