Compare our faces, and be judge yourself.
-Bastard
King John Act
I, Scene i, Line 79
An interesting name for today’s speaker: Bastard. He’s a
fairly main character in this play and throughout his speaking parts are simply
attributed to Bastard.
If you’re interested in context, this is the beginning of
the play and Bastard and his brother have come before the King to ask him to
mediate a dispute. The one brother is claiming that the other brother, Bastard,
is only a half brother and therefore illegitimate, and therefore not due for
any inheritance. And Bastard isn’t really arguing. He’s saying that his half
brother resembles his father, both of them pretty puny, and further that he,
Bastard, resembles his true father, Richard the Lion Hearted who was King
John’s brother. King John and the Queen Mother who both obviously knew what
Richard looked like are going to agree with Bastard.
Okay, here's two closeups taken at about the same age. One is me, one is my dad.
Compare our faces, and be judge yourself.
See the resemblance? No, me neither.
1 comment:
That's sarcasm, right? You look exactly alike.
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