Act 3 Scene 7
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- Created on: 02-06-15 17:25
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- Act 3 Scene 7
- Context
- It was fashionable to speak French, and Marwood reflects this because she is an upper-class woman
- "Why this wench is the PASSE-PARTOUT"
- It was fashionable to speak French, and Marwood reflects this because she is an upper-class woman
- Theoretical Concepts
- Grice's Maxims
- Question quality of Marwood's term of endearment as she goes on to say her affair with Fainall is over
- "My friend Fainall"
- Question quality of Marwood's term of endearment as she goes on to say her affair with Fainall is over
- Grice's Maxims
- Spoken Language Features
- Address terms
- The formal use of a term of address may represent her loss of affection for Fainall
- "Well, Mr Fainall, you have met with your match"
- The formal use of a term of address may represent her loss of affection for Fainall
- Address terms
- Rhetorical Devices
- Rhetorical Questions
- Marwood uses them to create tension and suspense
- "Is it thus with you? Are you become a go-between of this importance?"
- Marwood uses them to create tension and suspense
- Euphamism
- Marwood uses a sexual euphamism to say that she doesn't desire Fainall. Already had too much of him.
- "Your loathing is not from want of appetite, then, but from a surfeit"
- Marwood uses a sexual euphamism to say that she doesn't desire Fainall. Already had too much of him.
- Rhetorical Questions
- Structure
- Soliloquy
- Tension created as Marwood is truly established as an antagonist and now has the means to ruin everything
- Element of surprise. Lady Wishfort distracted the audence from Marwood in the closet
- Context
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