AYLI- Time
- Created by: Emily
- Created on: 03-06-15 14:20
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- Time in AYLI
- Time associated with decay
- Touchstone- 'hour to hour we rot and rot'
- Touchtone & Jaques are melancholy and foolish characters- therefore they may not be intended to be taken seriously
- Pun of 'hour' and 'whore'- suggests rotting is associated with sexual corruption in the court
- Jaques, 7 ages of man- 'sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, san everything
- Touchtone & Jaques are melancholy and foolish characters- therefore they may not be intended to be taken seriously
- Touchstone- 'hour to hour we rot and rot'
- Nature exists outside of time
- 'no clock in the forest'
- Links to pastoral convention of timelessness in nature
- 'Many young gentlemen...fleet the time carelessly as they did in the Golden World'
- Creates an association between paradise- 'Golden World'- and absence of time
- Pace in Act 1 (when set in the court)- fast, whereas it slows down when in the Forest
- The forest presented as an escape, not only from the court but also time
- 'Now we go in content; to liberty, and not to banishment'
- However, time must resume- as shown by he characters return to court at the end
- The forest presented as an escape, not only from the court but also time
- 'Now we go in content; to liberty, and not to banishment'
- However, time must resume- as shown by he characters return to court at the end
- Time associated with decay
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