When he talks about Rosaline it seems as though he is acting the part of an unrequited lover. We notice this, along with Benvolio, which makes his love almost comical as we know that it is not serious. Also he often says “O” with a sign. This makes the audience feel that he is being melodramatic. This expression of anguish seems over the top.
This change in Lewis is apparent when he describes the opera as being about “important things, like love and fidelity” and when he reacts genuinely hurt to when he discovers that his girlfriend Lucy has been having sex with Nick. Ultimately Lewis ends his relationship with Lucy because of their conflicting principles. In addition, Lewis also benefits from the production through his partnership with the mentally ill as he is able to understand what the “insane” people are really like. Before Lewis held very stereotypical views of the ill and feared that one of them might “forget to take their medication and go berserk.” Lewis’ stage directions were spoken with “hesitation” , showing a lack in confidence, but through the progression of “Cosi Fan Tutte” Lewis forms
Harwood then says ‘They suffer’, emphasised by the short syntax. This sentence is ambiguous as to who’s suffering; the people or the composers themselves as Kröte is adding his own elements or 'variations' to the music. Kröte’s intentions are stressed with the alliteration of ‘malice’ and ‘more’, as he delights in reversing the power in society by playing his music badly and having no one notice. He even plays the repeats of the pieces through, just to add to the length of his performance, even though in the fifth stanza, the narrator tells us that 'he was expected to perform something short and sweet'. The use of the word ‘expected’ is important, as it shows how Kröte, in not doing what was expected of him, is in defiance of society.
In ‘Cosi’, a play written by Louis Nowra, the meaning of love is explored and challenged by the different views of the mental patients, the protagonist Lewis and his friends Nick and Lucy. Nowra considers the importance of love in human relationships and a deeper enduring bond of love based on trust, respect and loyalty. The relationship between Lewis and the patients changes him. At the beginning of the play Lewis is narrow minded and thinks that in those days politics is more important than love. However, as he continues to perform with the patients finds for himself that love is most definitely imperative for humans.
In this scene music must be interpreted as our emotions; so Orsino wants to find a cure to his depression, and maybe through an excess of love (music) he can kill it. "If music be the food of love play on, give me excess of it, that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die ......" “It appears form this quote that Orsino is in love with the idea of being in love. His speech is full of melodramatic words which show that he is over indulgent of love. His feelings of love for Olivia are so intense that he seems overwhelmed by his thoughts of her. As Orsino feels so fanatical about pursuing Olivia, you could claim that he is obsessed with her.
The sailors see skulls of dead men that have fallen for the siren’s song. Even though the men see it is a trick and can tell that they will die, they can’t bear to ignore the melodic tune and are forced to be sucked into the trap. In this sense, the author could be relating the deception and confusion of the sirens to everyday life situations. We see that there are consequences and that we shouldn’t do certain things, yet we still continue to fall into the trap of our own decisions. Some things seem so valuable and so intriguing that we want them, but a lot of the time they end up hurting us.
When getting “whistles” she doesn’t know how to handle the attention. She is unsure about whether she should get excited because someone is paying attention to her or if she should be angry or upset by the rude gestures (11). She then feels the need to be one of the boys but at the same time trying to desirable enough so they would want to be with her. This can be seen when the narrator says, “it’s learning to say fuck with grace but learning to fuck without it” 15-16). The most powerful image of the poem comes when she says; “it’s finally having a man reach out for you then caving in around his fingers” (17-20).
He is also in love with Olivia but it can be said that he is mostly in love with the idea of love itself since he talks incessantly of love: “O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou” (I. i. 9) that he is unable to distinguish between appearance and reality. Also, by looking at the first two scenes of Act 1, it is clear that he wallows in his emotions, and is changeable and moody. He threatens to kill Viola-Cesario as Olivia says that ‘he’, Viola-Cesario, is her husband. However, he switches his love from Olivia to Viola without any hesitation as soon as he gets to know that Viola-Cesario is actually a woman.
In line four the author uses the word “vice” to describe that eating is a negative character trait, meaning he is making himself look bad because of his greediness. In the last two lines of the poem I get the perception that the author means that in his belly there is sin. I think that he describes the belly as sin because he was greedy and fed off of others and being greedy is a sin. The author also wanted more as described in line three of the poem. “Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in” (6) means that a desire comes out and a mouth full of food goes into the body.
Swift introduces his essay emotionally and with actual logic to deceive the reader into thinking the essay will provide emotional analysis on how to fix the problems of Ireland. But as the essay progresses, Swift’s emotion fades and his logic becomes construed. He presents the idea of eating children to relieve the poor mothers of their debts and to give the wealthy a nice meal. Even though Swift seems to be a mad and deranged cannibal, he actually made a strong point by suggesting the gormandizing of children. By bringing forth this absurd point, Swift reveals the absurd and unfair treatment of the people of Ireland.