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Friday, April 18, 2008

allusions

 
Currently Reading
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By Elizabeth Smart
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lines from my novel, based on quotes from other authors. they're not really subtle. not quite plagiarism, methinks. just a tipping of the hat to shakespeare and others.

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“Because she is a woman, you forget she is an even greater anomaly to this place,” Simeon reasoned. “Imagine what cruelty she must have embraced in order to unsex herself for war."

Lady Macbeth:
"Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here."

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We dreaded that our wives might be sold into slavery, our children thrown from the city walls, our homes burned, our communities forgotten."

What happened to Hector's family after Troy was sacked.

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Does she sigh for your pains, bid you to believe that your care for her actually amounts to something remarkable, perhaps, or profound?"

Othello: "My story being done, she gave me for my pains a world of sighs: she swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful."

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can't think of others. oh well.
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Hmm seems pretty subtle to me. Than again, I haven't read any of those, except for Macbeth, and I don't remember that line. I believe I have to read Othello in senior year, though.
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Oops. I meant "then" not "than".
Posted 4/18/2008 9:10 PM by franzgrrl91 - reply


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