C LIT 30B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Omen
13 Jun 2015
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A portrait or copy of her mother. Astolf: wants to replace rosaura with stella. Problem: he is acting outside the law. Stella to astolf: i"ve no doubt that these gallant words/ are spoken with the best intent/ but you must mean them for the maid/ whose painted likeness hung about your neck (1750-1753) Rosaura wants to break the cycle, return astolf to the law. Astolf"s deception: i"ll take her portrait from my chest/ and lovingly hang in its place/ the image of your loveliness/ for where fair stella shines, no shade/ can fall, no lowly star besmirch/ the sun"s bright realm! / when men and women are apart, / their troth. [promise] is worth no more than this (1768-1777) Ambrigoulo, machiavelli - do what you can do to get what you want. Men play with these stars for their decision making. Image as the symbol of this promise. Main question: how does segismund learn the law? step one.
