Act 3 Scene 18
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- Created on: 01-06-15 10:14
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- Act 3 Scene 18
- Linguistic/ Grammatical Devices
- Sentence functions
- Marwood uses many imperatives especially in her second utterance. Manipulative nature and conversation-al dominance
- "Then shake it off...but first prevent their plot."
- Fainall uses a declarative to show that he is finished with his wife. Marks a turning point
- "I am single and will herd no more with 'em"
- Marwood uses many imperatives especially in her second utterance. Manipulative nature and conversation-al dominance
- Third Person
- Fainall uses third person to reflect an earlier scene with "the nodding husband sleeps"
- "let the lover still believe"
- Fainall uses third person to reflect an earlier scene with "the nodding husband sleeps"
- Sentence functions
- Theoretical Concepts
- Grice's Maxims
- Question the quality of one of Marwood's statements because she is having an affair
- "Besides you forget, marriage is honourable"
- Question the quality of one of Marwood's statements because she is having an affair
- Lakoff's Gender Theory
- Marwood adhering to female talk by using interrogatives to make a statement. Po**ibly tentative
- "I hope you are convinced that I hate Mirabell now?"
- Marwood adhering to female talk by using interrogatives to make a statement. Po**ibly tentative
- Grice's Maxims
- Literary Devices
- Simile/ metaphor/ personificati-on
- Fainall uses a metaphor to say he was a cuckold before he was married for exaggeration
- "a cuckold in embryo"
- Fainall uses extended metaphor for being a cuckold, which may have been funny to the audience. Horns are humorous representati-on of a cuckold
- "Sure I was born with budding antlers like a young satyr"
- "My wife had added lustre to my horns"
- Married for money
- Fainall says he could have been like a stag, which is a symbol of masculinity. Cound be saying that he showed weakne**
- "If I had kept my speed like a stag"
- Fainall uses a dehumanisi-ng expre**ion to show how he does not value his wife and she has served her purpose. Compares her to a cow
- "I'll turn my wife to gra**"
- "I'll herd no more with 'em"
- Po**ibly an extension of this
- Fainall uses a metaphor to say he was a cuckold before he was married for exaggeration
- Simile/ metaphor/ personificati-on
- Spoken Language Features
- Length of turn
- Fainall's first turn is quite long in comparison to his next ones because he is angry and ranting
- Fainall also has another long turn because he is thinking aloud for the benefit of the audience
- "Why, faith, I'm thinking of it.....who has not the wherewithal to stake."
- Oaths and swearing
- Fainall uses oaths to show his anger
- "'Sdeath"
- Fainall uses oaths to show his anger
- Interruption
- Marwood interrupts Fainall to a**ert her dominance in the conversation
- F: "That may be--" M: "You married her to keep you"
- Marwood interrupts Fainall to a**ert her dominance in the conversation
- Length of turn
- Rhetorical Devices
- Triple structures
- Fainall uses two of these to expre** his anger at Foible
- "Foible's a bawd, an errant, a rank match-making bawd."
- Fainall uses two of these to expre** his anger at Foible
- Incrementum
- Fainall uses this to expre** his growing anger and show his misfortune
- Triple structures
- Fainall uses two of these to expre** his anger at Foible
- "Foible's a bawd, an errant, a rank match-making bawd."
- Fainall uses two of these to expre** his anger at Foible
- "To be out-witted, out-jilted, out-matrimonied."
- Triple structures
- Fainall uses this to expre** his growing anger and show his misfortune
- Euphamism
- Marwood uses this to say Mrs Fainall had premarital sex. Have to sound "proper"
- "She had given up her game before she was married"
- Marwood uses this to say Mrs Fainall had premarital sex. Have to sound "proper"
- Repetition
- Fainall's use of repetition within an interrogative sentence shows his indecisivene-**
- "The means, the means?"
- Fainall uses a list to illustrate his lack of options Emphasised by the repetition of "that's over"
- "I am married already; so that's over. My wife has played the jade with me; well, that's over too"
- Fainall's use of repetition within an interrogative sentence shows his indecisivene-**
- Listing
- Fainall uses a list to illustrate his lack of options Emphasised by the repetition of "that's over"
- "I am married already; so that's over. My wife has played the jade with me; well, that's over too"
- Fainall uses a list to illustrate his lack of options Emphasised by the repetition of "that's over"
- Triple structures
- Form/ Genre
- Upper-cla** setting
- Servants were always around so Foible knows everyone's secrets. Would have been a fear among rich audience
- "she knows some pa**ages"
- Servants were always around so Foible knows everyone's secrets. Would have been a fear among rich audience
- Upper-cla** setting
- Themes
- Marriage
- Fainall abused his marriage because he married for money not love
- Money/ materialism
- Fainall abused his marriage because he married for money not love
- Marriage
- Structure
- Scene comes after Sir W's arrival, which was a humorous scene. Provides contrast
- The scene is the last in Act III and thus ends on a rhyming couplet
- "All husbands must or pain or shame endure; The wise too jealous are, fools too secure"
- Linguistic/ Grammatical Devices
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