Come on, show me the wound that my eyes have caused. Phebe is a dark-featured, black-haired, large-eyed shepherdess beloved by Silvius.
V,2,2322. Silvius is a young shepherd who is madly love with Phoebe, a snobby shepherdess who thinks she's way too good for Silvius.
Summary: Silvius has confessed his love to Phoebe, but his words fall on hostile ears. 2. Oh, snap!
Shakespeare based the play on Rosalynde (1590), a prose romance by Thomas Lodge.
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Call you this railing?
It is to be all made of sighs and tears; And so am I for Phebe.
By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Check out Britannica's new site for parents! PHEBE Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.
SILVIUS Wherever sorrow is, relief would be: If you do sorrow at my grief in love, By giving love your sorrow and my grief Were both extermined. It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes;... 22.
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It may further be argued that As You Like It presents a parody of romantic love, achieved mainly through the character of Touchstone, who constantly mocks Silvius's behavior. The executioner, who’s seen death so much his heart has grown hard, still says, “forgive me” before he drops the axe on the criminal’s neck. History at your fingertips
Do not, Phoebe. When Phebe shoots him down, Rosalind (disguised as Ganymede) emerges and scolds the two of them SparkNotes is brought to you by Barnes & Noble.
She falls completely in love with a young man who insults her for being too proud, and uses Silvius to deliver a letter to him for her. The executioner, who’s seen death so much his heart has grown hard, still says, “forgive me” before he drops the axe on the criminal’s neck. AS YOU LIKE IT – Phoebe’s Duologue with Silvius (Act III, scene 6) Overview 1.
World authority on Shakespeare. Basically, Rosalind tells Phoebe that she should stop her wannabe "Petrarchan mistress" routine because nobody's going to be writing poems about her beauty any time soon.
Silvius is a young shepherd who is madly love with Phoebe, a snobby shepherdess who thinks she's way too good for Silvius.
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Silvius follows Phoebe around like a love-sick puppy and she scorns him, the more she scorns him the more he loves her.
Faint, fall down—if you don’t, then you’re lying about my eyes being murderers.
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Touchstone and Audrey, characters in Shakespeare's V,2,2332.
SILVIUS Sweet Phebe, pity me.
She falls completely in love with a young man who insults her for being too proud, and uses Silvius to deliver a letter to him for her. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser.
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Silvius and Phoebe in As You Like It. Do not, Phoebe.
It is to be all made of faith and service; And so am I for Phebe.
He is willing to do all she commands, including deliver a letter that he presumes to be angrily written to an insulting young man.
She takes his metaphors literally and is insulted by them, has a sarcastic edge to her tongue and is not afraid to use it on his wooer. Now I am sure that eyes can’t hurt a person.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Having promised to wed Silvius if she ever refused Ganymede, she accepts to do so.
"Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,/ Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,/ That can entame my spirits to your worship" (3.5.41-42, 51-53). But my eyes, which I’ve darted at you, haven’t even left a mark.
Sweet Phoebe, do not scorn me. Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Chair of Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Chicago.
Go ahead and say you don’t love me, but not so bitterly.
Silvius is a young shepherd, desperately in love with Phoebe and unwilling to believe that the aged can possibly understand his torment.
Are you going to be crueler than the man who makes his living by killing?That eyes, that are the frail’st and softest things,And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee.I don’t want to be your executioner: I’m trying to avoid you so that I won’t hurt you.
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Go ahead. You tell me my eyes are murderous—that’s a very pretty sentiment, and oh-so-probable, that my frail, soft eyes (which are so cowardly that they close their gates against dust) are tyrants, butchers, and murderers. Surprisingly, she falls wildly in love with Ganymede (Rosalind in disguise), yet finally she weds Silvius.
Rosalind, Celia, and Corin eavesdrop as Silvius desperately tries to woo Phebe. Like Romeoat the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, Silvius is a cliché and also a parody of the classic "Petrarchan lover," which is basically a guy who falls in love with a woman he has no chance of …
The students will examine Phoebe's monologue, using the punctuation as a tool to help decode the meaning of the text.