Tuesday, October 30, 2007

empty rhetoric and false words

There are a lot of instances of in which characters openly accuse others of not meaning what they say, or words are somehow portrayed as false: "I'll not believe ... you mean so wantonly what you say" (Julietta, 3.1); "How far thy tongue and heart do live asunder!" (Fairefield, 3.2); the letter signed with Fairefield's name, but he knows nothing about at the very beginning of 5.1; "Talk, and talk out thy heart" (Fairefield, 5.1).

What's the significance of this theme? What work does it do within the context of the play?

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