Appearance and Reality
- Created by: Kathryn252
- Created on: 17-05-18 09:04
View mindmap
- Appearance and Reality
- "mirour, polisshed bright"
- Not true image of reality but a mere reflection
- "commune market-place"
- Commodities based on aesthetic appearance, not true charatcer
- "oon have beaute in hir face, another stant so in the peples grace"
- A03= Marriage mercantile contract improve social status
- A05= Harpine- "commodify women and market their sexuality"
- Commodities based on aesthetic appearance, not true charatcer
- "Whan tendre youthe hath wedded stouping age"
- Januarie deluded in believing his "corage, it is so sharp and keene"
- "lymes stark and suffisaunt"
- "many a lectuarie hath he ful fyn"- in reality, aphrodisiacs required!
- "skin of houndfissh, sharp as brere"
- A03= Senex Amans
- Belief "woulde hire streyne harder than evere Paris dide Eleyne"
- Reality= "she preyseth nat his pleying worth a bene"
- A05= Lopez- sexual potency "depends upon his reading of May as sexually inexperienced"
- "lymes stark and suffisaunt"
- Appearance of a young and old wife
- "Bet is..a pyk than a pikerel and bet than old boef is the tendre veel"
- language of consumption- sexual appetite
- "tendre veel" vs "tendre flour"
- language of consumption- sexual appetite
- "a yong thing may men gye, right as men may warm wex with handes plye"
- But in reality, May is "as stille as stoon" and "in warm wex hath emprented the clicket"
- Not controlled as J's perception of appearance of women is not reflective of reality
- A05= Stevens- "Dimly misogynistic and bitter... intending to show the deceitfulness of women"
- Not controlled as J's perception of appearance of women is not reflective of reality
- But in reality, May is "as stille as stoon" and "in warm wex hath emprented the clicket"
- "Bet is..a pyk than a pikerel and bet than old boef is the tendre veel"
- Januarie deluded in believing his "corage, it is so sharp and keene"
- "trewe servant dooth moore diligence"
- Theofraste "trewe knave wol kepe thee bet"
- "cart biforn the knight ful many a day"
- "no sinne with his wyf, ne hurte himselven with his owne knyf"
- "Thyn owene squier... entendeth for to do thee vileyne"
- A03= Feudal system and emergence of Merchant class subverting tradition
- "He is a gentil squire"
- Appears the diligent servant but such an appearance is "hoomly foo"
- Januarie
- Literal blindness in reality metaphorical all along due to his distorted perception
- "For love is blind alday, and may nat see"
- "Heigh fantasye...in the soule impresse"
- "For love is blind alday, and may nat see"
- "worthy knight"
- "Pavie"- A03= context of tyranny and cruelty incongruous with worthiness
- "folwed ay his bodily delit"
- A03= Church view sex as necessary evil. Following Epicurean philosophy
- Literal blindness in reality metaphorical all along due to his distorted perception
- "Ye maze, maze"
- Januarie denies the appearance of reality
- Still metaphorically blind
- A05= Harrington- "disturbing notion that a level of happiness is possible... through self- deception"
- "This Januarie, who is glad but he?"
- "I saugh it with mine yen"
- "For as good is blind deceyved be as to be decyved whan a man may se"
- "he that misconceyveth, he misdemeth"
- Januarie denies the appearance of reality
- "mirour, polisshed bright"
Comments
No comments have yet been made