After you have given your speech, can you please type it up (the lines you performed) and give a brief explanation of the content/meaning.
Then, can you place it on a revision card(10cmx8cm), enough for everyone in your class so they can revise/learn it in preparation for the exam.
Cheers,
Mr. D
3 comments:
Ferdinand
Yes, and tis the largest bounty i can study to do thee. by what authority didst thou execute this bloody sentence?
Bosola
By yours
Ferdinand
Mine! was i her judge? did any ceremonial form of law doom her to not being? did a complete jury deliver her up i' the court? where shalt though find this judgement registered unless in hell? see, like a bloody fool, thou'st forfeited thy life, and thou shalt die for 't.
Ferdinand refuses to accept responsibility for ordering the death of the Duchess and blames Bosola for her murder. This is the beginning of Ferdinand's turn to lycanthropia.
DK
Bosola
Observe my meditation now.
What thing is in this outward form of man
To be beloved? We account it ominous
If nature do produce a colt, or lamb,
a fawn, or goat, in any limb resembling
a man; and fly from't as a prodigy.
Man stands amazed to see his deformity
in any other creature but himself;
Lauren
Act 2 Scene 1.
Observe my meditation now.
What thing is in this outward form of man
To be beloved? We account it ominous
If nature do produce a colt, a lamb,
A fawn, or goat, in any limb resmbling
A man; and fly from’t as a prodigy.
Man stands amazed to see his deformity
In any creature but himself;
But in our own flesh, though we bear diseases
Which have their true names only ta’en from beasts
As the most ulcerous wolf, and swinish measle –
Though we are eaten up of live, and worms,
And though continually we bear about us
A rotten and dead body, we delight
To hide it in rich tissue; all our fear –
Nay all our terror – is, lest our physician
Should put us in the ground, to be made sweet.
This passage is Bosola's lament over human nature; his description suggests that humans question what is pure and virtuous in nature in favour of their 'rotten and dead disposition.' He believes that humans are flawed creatures but they try and hide all this with garish materialism and wealth.
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