Working with Data from the Shakespeare Concordance:
1. What thematic strands have you located?
beauty...flower... violets…roses
2. Where is the data you retrieved found? What is happening in context when Shakespeare employs this particular theme or image?
Love “blooms” early in the play. This is seen through the mention of beauty and flowers. Later on in the play, love isn’t mentioned as often, signaling that love is already grown.
3. How does the data you retrieved support your first thoughts on Shakespeare’s obsessive use of a particular image? What can you argue about Shakespeare’s figuration?
Like a flower, love grows, is fragile, beautiful and dies. Also like a flower, a person grows, is fragile and dies.
i think you could have gone more in depth with your answers. i would have liked to see a direct relationship to Shakespeare. i fell like you just scraped the surface and felt that was fine. try opening your mind a bit more next time. but i do like what you have put forward already, it just seems unfinished.
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