essay plan

• 1 Who makes errors:

  TMT

  • Jan sees marriage as easy, self indulgent, paradise
  • Sees himself as fresh courtly lover, a courtly knight, but just buys and uses may
  • taints own paradise with sexual pear tree, tainting virginal marian symbolism
• 1 who makes errors:

  TMT quotes

  • pyrie
  • ther may no man han parfite blisse two
  • Alle my lymes been as grene as laurer
  • folwed al his bodily delit
  • warm wex handes plye
  • wedlock is so esy and clene
  • paradis terreste (...) made a gardyn, walled al with stoon
• 1 who makes errors:

  AIH

  • Robert embezzles
  • in danger of being like Dilke and Parnell, reputable politicians ruined by scandal
  • to C19th fin de siecle, morals appear as the most important things for a figure to have, even if secretly they all worship wealth and commit cruelties
• 1 who makes errors:

  AIH quotes

  • the sin of ones youth
  • I bought success at a great price, that is all
  • ones past is what one is
  • fight the country with its own weapons
  • what this century worships is wealth
  • temptation that requires a great strength to yield to
• 2 what are the consequences:

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  • Jan is cuckolded
  • Foreshadowed by him recreating Eden, destroyed by woman falling to snakes temptations
  • destined to be fooled due to fabliau justice
  • senex amans, will be ridiculed when cuckolded
• 2 what are the consequences:

  TMT quotes

  • tendre youthe hath wedded stouping age
  • naddre in bosom slye untrewe
  • damyan thanne hath opened the cliket
  • pullen up the smok, and in he throng
• 2 what are the consequences:

  AIH

  • Robert is blackmailed and loses his wife's love (but keeps his career)
  • while Gertrude forgives as it is well made play and must end well, does she really still love him
  • prowse 1980, anti Thatcher, anti materialism , omits last line
• 2 what are the consequences:

  AIH quotes

  • I realise that I am talking to a man who laid the foundation of his fortune by selling (...) a cabinet secret
  • lie to me! lie to me! tell me it is not true!
  • you had soiled me forever
  • a horrible painted mask
• 3 are they really errors:

  TMT

  • not really, if he lives in ignorance he can still live the life he wants
  • Jan still kind of in control. Lombardy, Pavie known in C14th to be home to tyrants
  • top of three estates, will have the power to do and buy whatever he wants, especially to poorer peasants (while most eng knights made average £40 yearly, peasants £2)
• 3 are they really errors:

  TMT quotes

  • worthy knight, born of pavie
  • hand upon hire evermo
  • and to his palays hann he hath hire lad
  • lat al passe out of minde
• 3 are they really errors:

  AIH

  • No, Robert doesn't regret it, wasn't ever really an error and very aware of what he did, no matter the consequences
  • Gertrude like Nora from censored doll house, Ibsen 1879, and Robert seems ok with her devaluing herself
  • not even really punished, especially in productions like Parker 1999, where the commons scene used to paint him as hero
• 3 are they really errors:

  AIH quotes

  • a man's life is of more value than a womans
  • pitiless in her perfection (...) the white image of all good things
  • power is his passion, he would lose everything