I just HATE how dead-set he is in not talking to his own daughter because of his beliefs that he does not want to personally confirm or deny. He is immature in modern-day thinking, but I don't know if this is something common during the Renaissance. Literally, if he and every other male character in tragedies just spoke with the person they are having conflict with, there would be no extra drama and deaths in the end.

I think Regan is being so badass here because she is standing up to her manipulative father. She is setting orders on him since he is acting irresponsible with Cordelia.

Here is the part where Lear is expecting/forcing Regan to take care of him like he is her child. He tries to guilt trip with his age. Regan also sees this trick and tells him to stop, but again, he guilts her with his other daughter's "foul" behavior.

I believe Lear is talking about Cordelia here and still sees her as a betrayer that has hurt him and Regan is not helping get rid of this hysterical narrative. She says to chill out, but Regan does not completely deny the accusations.

I think in this line, Fool is trying to say something truthful about Cordelia on how she is the one treating her father as she should because of the wealth they have. I don't understand his meaning of saying that poor fathers turn their children blind because I think poor people see more truth than people assume.

I believe these are Roman gods because Greek gods are the infamous gods such as Zeus, Athena, Helios, etc. Jupiter is the equivalent to Zeus and Juno is the equivalent of Hera - according to a quick Google search.

After today's lecture, Edgar does have virtuous thoughts and actions. Edgar is trying to escape a bad fate that is going to come from all of the drama that is going to happen. He wants to keep his mind and beliefs sane as he says "I will preserve myself."

It's kind of hard to understand the Fool's hidden lessons, but it is very foreshadowing of the terror and devastation that will happen later in the play. For this part, it seems he is hinting at people dying in the future, but there might be something that speeds up the inevitable.

The daughters as well are following Lear's footsteps in aggressiveness if the Fool is including the daughters in the punishment he has received.

Lear is showing his dominance like an alpha male here and right now, he is behaving the most aggressive compared to the other men in power (Henry and Othello) in the previous plays.

I looked up this phrase and what I found that fits the theme of this speech is "the descending node of the moon or a planet". Edmund suggests that he is a dark and mysterious figure because of all the connections with the stars/moon/planets/night.

People see men who sleep around as someone bad and unjust! This is new because so far, we have only seen females been called whores due to rumors.

Gloucester sees Edmund's brother's actions to be cruel because of the values Edmund remembers about his brother, but I don't see how what was said is so bad.

Cordelia's sisters see that their father's choices are very surprising since Cordelia is the favorite and would have her way in what she wants.

It seems Cordelia is wishing for her new husband to be dead? I know for sure she dislikes the idea of being given away, but she knows what her role is.

To everyone surrounding this town or the people who have a significant amount of power in the royal setting see Cordelia's actions as monstrous and devastating to their regions.

I am guessing Kent is now banished from the town and is Lear sees anything belonging to Kent then he shall be killed. Although, I am a bit confused on how this argument went down because I thought Lear was marrying his youngest daughter to Kent as a away to "mature" her for leadership.

This reminds me of the passage in the bible that talks about the way you should behave to your `neighbor'.

Ah yes, daddy's little girl narrative. Usually, the narrative goes where the youngest is portrayed more like the brat, but she still gets what she desires -hopefully.

Why exactly are all the daughters proclaiming their daughterly love to their father? What good does having a daughter who loves you the most need to do with ruling a part of a land?

I am assuming the subject of this conversation is a bastard or is being insulted as one and that Gloucester becomes angry or even embarrassed for him?

In this line, Brabantio is accusing Othello of bewitching his daughter, but earlier he was mad that his daughter just up in left and suggested that he cannot trust her anymore.

A very macho phrase for men wanting to control their daughters and wives.

This is probably my first time seeing a male character in plays actually genuinely care for a female for their actual personality instead of their beauty.

This is very manipulative of Iago because he s trying to guilt Brabantio with accusing Iago and Roderigo as 'ruffians'

I think Iago is kind of, dumb? He complains about being under Cassio and how Cassio has no knowledge of being a leader, but when Roderigo tries to give him simple solutions of leaving, he's kind of lie "ohhh I just can't leave, but I don't need to follow his orders." He's very all bark no bite.

This is another example of Iago ruining someone's (Cassio's) reputation. I think for right now, Iago has internal rage that comes out frequently.

I believe this is where Iago starts his statements of disliking Othello and he uses negative connotated words to continuously bash at Othello.

This goes with my last comment of Henry trying to excuse his actions by being a soldier and also the war which is where men are acting aggressive toward each other.

Being a 'soldier' is an excuse Henry uses to show why he is acting so crass and disturbing. He threatens the women in the city and all the townspeople living there because he is a soldier and he is in battle.

Henry is using similes to try and compare his men to frightening things because he is trying to rile his mean to be fearful as what he compares them to, in this care it would be the cannons firing away in the battlefield.

Dauphin seems to be calling being a coward a 'self-neglecting' act which is a larger sin at heart. He sees being brave as something that is good for the mentality since their current world is no easy place to be a coward; acting like a coward will kill someone easily.

The king of France is bringing up the historic battles between France and King Henry's father. The king of France is comparing Henry with his father and stating the 'bloody stain' of battles will continue because Henry was born and essentially raised in a country always fighting.

I think around this era, people of power and I also assume the townspeople in the country would acknowledge their country - in this example it would be France - as a female. This goes in hand with the king needing to be the hero who saves the damsel in distress.

I have noticed a lot of historical written works that are created after the event that occured show a little bit of foreshadowing by saying something like, "we will either be remembered as heros or as cowards" or in another similar way.

More honey talk, which means the citizens are the working bees that are obedient like mentioned before.

this metaphor goes in hand with the complement of words like honey earlier in this scene I believe. Shakespeare is starting to bring in his usual theme of comparing what he writes to the seasons and those seasons' traits.

This is slightly confusing about the mentioning of females in general because the known saying of women in Salique have no rights to basically a will, but now form the 'book of Numbers', female receives an inheritance.

Canterbury is bringing up how Henry was great at speeches because of his metaphor about his sentences being easy on the ears like honey is easy on the throat.

Are Ely and Canterbury being sarcastic about the KIng or is this genuine talk.

Are Ely and Canterbury trying to pump Henry into being a noble ruler like his heirs mentioned by Ely? The diction is hard to understand without knowing the emotions of the speakers because earlier it seemed like King Henry was giving a speech to his peers, but now it seems he is being criticized.

Henry seems cautious to be entering this war as a newly crowned king, which is surprising because his father started the endless battles that soon intoxicates Henry as a leader.

At this line and also when Henry says "good uncle", he has a familiar bond with these men and from the family chart, I do not see their names. Are these men related to Henry in the way Henry terms them or is it a way of showing intimacy with his close allies?

Side note from one of my comments above: I see now that Henry V is already the king.

Ely must be talking about Henry V's eager involvement with his freedom as a prince. Henry will have no responsibilities or land to oversee and he takes advantage by growing his reputation like a frat boy.

I think Ely and Canterbury are talking about Henry V's older brother who was supposed to be th enew ruler. They seem to be talking about him with high standards and believe he will lead the people in a way the people want to hear.

I don't know who Ely and Canterbury are talking about, but this is personification: consideration, the inanimate object, has compelled the subject to hault his actions of original sin. Adam, in a religious sense, was the first male on Earth who acquired original sin after Eve ate the apple in the Garden of Eden.

It seems people during the Reinassance, such as Shakespeare, saw Henry V's battle tendencies useless and not helpful with the situation his village/town was in. Henry kept continuing the wars instead of simmering down to start the peacful periods earlier.

This line portrays Henry as war-loving person just like the god of war from Roman beliefs if I am correct

i think someone must have died this time that has shakespeare heartbroken, but shakespeare's argumet seems that he has given up and believes there is a cycle that comes to a harsh end.

another sonnet about grief, maybe actual death this time as he mentions death at the couplet.

to me, it seems shakespeare is talking about his heart which he refers in the first line as his sinful earth

he sees "i hate" as something evil which i assume comes from the bad experiences from his past lover, the dak mistress

there is repitition with gentle: "gentle doom" and "gentle day"

shakespeare never really wrote about his expressions that are more negative to him like a shameful emotion. his lover saw he had fear in his eyes

the argument for this sonnet is that shakespeare wants acceptance from his lover and throughout this sonnet he sounds so sweet

he wants his lover to see him as he usually sees his lovers - someone who can be loeved and as he said, sweet

is this line a compliment to himself about being the "umber one best poet"

it seems this relationship he is wanting goes more sexual and he doesn't hide it as much as he did in his beginning sonnets.

shakespeare is still in love with his ex-mistress even though she has moved on from his love.

could this sonnet be arguing that shakespeare and his friend are no longer friends, but although they are not friends, shakespeare is still looking after his friend after everything that happened?

this could be Shakespeare again helping his friend in this sonnet or he could really be talking about leaving his broken self behind to build himself as he was before the pain.

this sonnet seems more for shakespeare's heartbroken friend than his ex-lover. he wants to protect his friend's heart than his own saying he will wilt in the jail of pain while he helps his friend to move on.

i see where he joined the affair, but it still seems she had moved on from Shakespeare to his friend.

why is his friend hurting? i see a lot of other students commenting that he was apart of the relationship, but I did not find any suggestion of that.

these two lines are arguing that after Shakespeare reflected his previous opinions about his mistress, he had a change of heart in which he now thinks people who are black having nothing wrong with them besides a skin tone that differs from most of england

whatever pain shakespeare is feeling right now, he describes it as the opposite of the morning sun which he before used this concept to describe someone beautiful

he begins this sonnet in a worried tone because his lover is pitying him for what his heart is truly saying.

His argument in this sonnet goes along with his black mistress is beautiful to him. he shares love for her that society would never think twice about just because hse is a black woman. Shakespeare on the other hand now sees that her skin is like the fair skin society finds beautiful.

Shakespeare sharing that many others believe someone like his lover is not worthy of love is very hurful and he also adds that he would not proudly share his different opinions, but would only tell himself.

this sonnet begins more loving than his other ones where he describes his lover: they are so delicate and gorgeous, so fine and precious.

I believe his argument for this sonnet is that his mistress is someone who is disliked and taunted by society to which he agrees with, but there is something about her that catches his 'rare love' - as he says.

this is straight up mean, but so far in this sonnet I see no argument. SHakespeare has given a lot of imagery in what his mistress looks like

wowww, Shakespeare is VERY blunt with his female mistress and he is not afraid to write these mean comparisons about her appearances

think the argument here is that although Shakespeares new mistress is black or not 'fair-toned', he is still in love with her. as we discussed in class, there was very much racism so Shakespeare would mostly likely have been looked down upon because of his relationship which he understands, but he is still connected with his new lover

this line sounds very offensive in which Shakespeare is saying having black skin is not nature's real art, meaning his 'mistress' is beautiful, but she is not a true beauty.

Even though there is no relationsip anymore, he still loved the experience and everything he put into the relationship.

Could this be how his friends were there to help him in moving on from the memories of his ex-lover?

This sonnet sounds more like he is experiencing a break up. All the love and memories are gone just like his lover.

The ending is again more reflective by thinking of what he has now which is better than everthing he has lost in the past.

I think this sonnet is more sad because this line is saying how he is stuck on greiving the things he grieved on in the past, but it also fits with just reflecting on his past problems.

The sonnets are not starting to get kind of sad or maybe more calm?

Paraphrased: After thinking about my troubles and my dreams, I think about you and it's like the light in my dark life.

This is very much like the formal Romance/Love because f his "cursed fate".

This goes with my previous comment in which Shakespeare does not want this person to be taken from him - or maybe even their beauty.

This line along with "and burn the long-liv'd phoenix, n her blood" gives off the subject is dying or going back into the earth.

"As long as I get to see how beautiful you are, it gives me life."

I am assuming Shakespeare connects summer as the positive characteristics while the cold winter is more negative.

I have read this sonnet before and from what I remember, it is similar to sonnet 17 in which there are a lot of lines mentioning the subjects beauty.

This whole sonnet was cheesy for romance and it correlates to modern cheesy romances as I suggested before.

very cheesy, it's basically the same as modern wording of "your eyes are the windows to your soul".

Since Shakespeare talks a lot about beauty, would this line suggest someone's appearance tells a lot about the person's life?

Could this be a line talking about the subject's insecurities?

Letting your old self go (deceased self) to rebirth yourself (then you were yourself again)

House is being connected to the subject's body, essentially their little secure home.

During the 1500s, did people's appearance age quickly? This line, to me, is comnig across that when people are in their prime (maybe late teens/early adult), those are the years they have no imperfections and are considered beautiful. Or is this line not figurative at all?

I don't really understand this line, but I am interpreting it as if the warm blood would be a blush on the skin.

This ties in with the discussion from class about Shakespeare's preferred theme when writing. I belive this line is talking about how after many years have passed, the beauty in his subject would be as worthy as nothing just like a weed.