1. Women in The Winter's Tale
However, what strikes him most is the betrayal of his friend. ... In retrospect, in ActI, when Polixenes is asked about his relation with his child by Leontes, he answers: If at home, sir, He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter, Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy; My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all: He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood. ... He indulges himself in a imaginary world of no guilty where he and his child could "change innocence for innocence" in defiance of the femin...
- Word Count: 2824
- Approx Pages: 11
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School