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Rhetorical Devices In ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Rhetorical Devices In ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore. By Ruv. Irony – The expression of ones meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. One of the most obvious examples of irony in TPSAW is Soranzo’s attitude towards adultery

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Rhetorical Devices In ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore

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  1. Rhetorical Devices In ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore By Ruv

  2. Irony – The expression of ones meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite. • One of the most obvious examples of irony in TPSAW is Soranzo’s attitude towards adultery • In Act 2 Scene 2 when Hippolita confronts Soranzo about his “hatred and contempt” - he criticizes her for “her monstrous life” and tells her to “learn to repent” and that he “hate thee and thy lust” • This is ironic because despite Hippolita being a married woman, Soranzo had a desire and lust for her, he had initiated the ‘adulterous’ acts which highlights his hypocrisy • This scene parallels his discovery of Anabella’s pregnancy where he insults her, calling her a “strumpet, famous Whore!” – He describes her as “adulterous” despite him having wooed a married woman. • With the use of this irony, Ford may be critizing the double standards held for women and emphasizing the hypocrisy of men in the Jacobean era.

  3. Allusion • You can identify that ''Tis Pity She's A Whore' alludes to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, they're both about romance, and both have a tragic end to them (romance tragedy) but there is also another Shakespeare's play which it alludes to; Richard III.

  4. Comparison Richard III 'TIS PITY she's a whore Giovanni: Here. Offers his dagger to her. Annabella: What to do? Giovanni: And here’s my breast. Strike home! Rip up my bosom; there thou shalt behold a heart in which is writ the truth I speak. Gloucester: Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword; Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom.And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,And humbly beg the death upon my knee. He lays his breast open: she offers at it with his sword… Take up the sword again, or take up me. LadyAnne: Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death, I will not be the executioner.

  5. Continued • As well as alluding to Romeo and Juliet, Ford also alludes to Richard III • By associating Giovanni's character with both Romeo and Richard III Ford may be implying that though Giovanni is comparable to Romeo in terms of romance, he is significantly more villainous • Which is especially the case since he his motivated by lust and desire for Anabella

  6. Other rhetorical devices • Assonance - Ford has used assonance to emphasise Hippolita’s fury “with supple words to smooth the grossness of my abuses.” The anger is conveyed through the repeating ‘s’ sound, and where assonance is pleasing to the audience’s ear, in this line it works as a hiss which gives the audience a chilling effect.

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