Tithonus

Character analysis of Tithonus in Tennyson's poem of the same name.

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  • Created by: Danielle
  • Created on: 09-05-13 10:54

Personality

Role
  • Selfish
  • Melancholy
  • Introvert
  • Madness
  • Isolated
  • Aloof
  • Romantic in a sad way
  • Desperate
  • Virtually suicidal but is unable to commit suicide
  • Isolated
  • To not fit in with the world of the Gods
  • To die from within, but not physically
  • Makes the reader question his mental state
  • Protagonist
  • Lover of Eos
  • Reflects on past life- flashback like
  • His life has been wasted
  • Trapped
  • Break the circle of life

Development (Growth & change)

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  • Retreats within himself
  • Plees to die more and more
  • Emotionally numbs
  • Becomes a tainted version of himself
  • Has internal conversations with himself
  • His emotional journey ensures that he loses the person he once was
  • Emotions become ruined
  • Been given eternal life by Eos (goddess of the sun)
  • Doesn't have eternal youth.
  • Self inflicted pain
  • Unlucky in love
  • Opens with setting that reflects character "woods decay and fall"
  • Crisis Point is emotional and mental- rhetorical questions directed at Eos "days far off, on that dark earth be true?"
  • Ending is unresolved- "thee returning on thy silver wheels"
  • Forms a dramatic monologue
  • Unclear about what is spoken or thought
  • Interpretations- old age strips away a person, living the past is painful

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Always thought she was known as Aurora - Thanks for the heads up on AO4 (and what could have been a rather large mistake) :)

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