Unthrifty
Loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thyself thy beauty’s legacy
Narrator
Sonnet 4 Line
1
Well this is one of those lines that doesn’t have any
particularly hard words in it, and yet it would take a while to figure out
exactly what Will is saying. But I’m not going to spend any time on this.
You see, I’m afraid I’m drawn back to last night’s line as I
just can’t seem to get past the relevance of Iago, and his wickedness and his
name calling, and I don’t think I fully finished my thought yesterday. I
believe I’ve remarked more than once in past posts how I find it hard to
believe that the rest of the people in the play are not able to see what a rat
Iago is. It just seems to be so terribly obvious to me as the viewer/reader of
the play. And I’ve been considering our current situation, the one I alluded to
yesterday, and now it strikes me as to how true to real life the situation in Othello is. I look at the
name-caller-in-chief and I realize that there are millions of people who
actually can’t see him for what he is, and it brings a whole new level of
meaning to Othello and Iago. I realize
just how relevant Will’s works are in today’s world, especially now.
I thought I had more to say on it, but I guess it’s as
simple as that. Okay, now I’m done. Thanks for listening.
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