Today’s Totally Random
Lines
Here comes his mother
They say she’s mad.
Junius Brutus and Sicinius Veletus
Coriolanus
Act IV, Scene ii, Line 7
This is a short
back and forth between the two tribunes who turned the crowds against
Coriolanus and had him banished. Now they’re about to meet up with Coriolanus’s
mother, Volumnia.
The scene
starts with the two congratulating themselves for the job they did in
convincing the mob to turn against Coriolanus.
The nobility are vext, whom we see have sided
In his
behalf.
Now we have shown our power,
Let us
seem humbler after it is done.
It continues with Volumnia and Menenius entering and the former giving the tribunes a piece of her mind.
Rats,
that can judge as fitly of his worth
As I can
of those mysteries which heaven
Will not
have earth to know.
Once the tribunes leave Menenius tries to settle Volumnia down, inviting her to dinner. He’s always the one trying to play the peacemaker, but she’ll have none of it.
Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so
shall starve with feeding.
It’s a great scene, quite short, and perhaps best summed up by the last six words of it:
Volumnia leaves
saying, Come, come, come.
Menenius, left
alone mutters simply, Fie, fie, fie!
Come, come come and Fie, fie, fie. Hmm, I'm not quite sure what to make of that, Mr. Blagys. Are you sure that's a good representation of the entire scene? I mean really, is that the best you can do?
No comments:
Post a Comment