ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Weald, Antifeminism, Cuckold
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A2 essay plan volpone and wife of bath. In the light of this view, consider the ways in which writers explore power and corruption. Introduction: both texts explore the ways that characters are corrupted by the power which they either weald or desire. However, both texts also expose the corruption which existed in society at the time. (ao1: volpone"s shameless worship of wealth (which in venetian mercantile society equates to power) has rendered him utterly morally corrupt. Her tale exposes the corruption and hypocrisy of the knight, and both the tale and the prologue the typical patriarchal attitudes of the church and anti-feminist literature (ao4) ***there are the topic sentences i will use to structure the argument in the essay*** Contemporary audiences would have been shocked by his brazen use of religious imagery to describe his treasure in the opening speech open the shrine that i may see my saint (add ao2 here).
