The Apparition
- Created by: eleanorfarnold
- Created on: 09-04-15 11:45
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- The Apparition
- an apparition is a ghostlike image of a person
- When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead
- use of personal pronoun desperate grab for power
- caesura dramatic emphasis
- And that thou think's thee free/ From all solicitation from me,/ Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,
- he's clearly been refused quite a few times...
- lots of anger, and accusations he is predicting how she will feel
- she will never be free from he
- And thee, feigned vestal, in worse arms shall see;
- she's a liar - he wants to catch her hypocrisy
- vestal virgins serve godess vesta : they cultivated a scared fire that was not allowed to go out.
- feigned is a pun on wanting to be and pretending to be a virgin.
- Then thy sick taper will begin to wink,/And he, whose thou art then, being tired before,/ Will, if thou stir, or pinch to wake him, think/ Thou call's for more
- reflecting his own feelings of sexually inferiority and cuckolding
- sick taper - reference to candle dying - ghosts are around
- split lines - arguably reflect his anger and bitterness. slow and difficult
- no one will believe she is being haunted - her sexual deviancy makes her untrustworthy
- And in false sleep will from thee shrink
- mimicking the candle - all bodies recede all light vanishing
- And then poor aspen wretch, neglected thou/ bathed in a cold quicksilver sweat will lie/ A verier ghost than I
- mercury treatment for syphilus
- aspen is a quaking tree - used as a noun/adjective in 16th century
- she is worse of than him a combination of being haunted and being a immoral person
- he's watching over her like a God preparing for judgement day
- What I will say, I will not tell thee now,/ Lest that preserve thee;'
- carefully considered pause - makes him appear almost logical
- i want to cause you lots of pain
- and since my love is spent,/ I'd rather thou should'st painfully repent,/ Than by my threat'nings remain innocent.
- i don't love you anyway - ironic - preservation of pride. reverse psychology
- wants her to do bad stuff
- end on a tripley again makes appear logical
- ironic religious language
- critics
- Laurence Perrine: "has been misread by generations of interpreters as an expression of hate and revulsion"
- Gail Gaskill: 'a literal corporeal resurrection is the most difficult Christian mystery to believe'
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