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- Glorious Revolution (bloodless)
- James II was chased out of England and removed from the throne - replace by William and Mary
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- Genovarians ascend the throne
- George I becomes king
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| England took over the leadership of both Canada and India |
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| "He that enlarges his curiosity after the works of nature, demonstrably multiplies the inlets to happiness..." |
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"This is the token of the troth-breach that I am detected in,
and needs much I wear it while in the world I remain;
for a man may cover his blemish, but unbind it he cannot" |
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| Said by Gawain, Gawain and the Green Knight |
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"Do you refuse now this silk," ...,
"because in itself it is poor? And so it appears.
See how small 'tis in size, and smaller in value!
But one who knew of the nature that is knit therewithin
Would appraise it probably at a prise far higher." |
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| The Host's Wife, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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"Now solemnly myself I swear on my troth
there is a company in this castle that is careful of honour!
Their lord that them leads, may his lot be joyful!
Their beloved lady in life may delight befall her!
If they out of charity thus charish a guest,
Upholding their house in honour, may He them reward
That upholds heaven on high, and all of you too!" |
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| Gawain, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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| Who set up the entire plot of Sir Gawain and controlled both the Green Knight and the Host's Wife's actions? |
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- Satire on your own people
- Chapter 6
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- Depression
- The fist indication that the upperclass were suseptable to disease and are frail
- They are loosing their reason for living
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- Caused by consorting with the wrong people and eating and drinking the wrong things
- Doctors were doing more harm than good by spreading disease
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- Warefare
- Competition
- Class structure
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| Examples of upperclass pastimes: |
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- Mercenary aspects of marriage
- Upperclass Lady pastimes
- Murder (duels)
- Military (flashy uniforms)
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| Why is the Beggar's Opera and opera? |
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| Because the songs bring a lightheartedness to a grim message. |
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"A fox may steal your hens, Sir,
A whore your health and pence, Sir,
Your daughter rob your chest, Sir,
Your wife may steal your rest, Sir,
A theif your goods and plate.
But this is all but picking,
With rest, pence, chest, and chicken;
It ever was decreed, Sir,
If lawyer's hand is fee'd, Sir,
He steals your whole estate." |
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Air 11. A Soldier and a Sailor
(Filch's song) |
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"Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty,
She alone who that employs,
Well deserves her beauty.
Let's be gay,
While we may,
Beauty's a flower, despised in decay.
Youth's the season etc.
Let us drink and sport today,
Ours is not tomorrow.
Love with youth flies swift away,
Age is nought but sorrow.
Dance and sing,
Time's on the wing,
Life never knows the return of spring."
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Air 22. Cotillon
Dance between MacHeath and the prostitutes
Carpe deum song based on faithlessness and greed |
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"The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike,
If they meddle your all is in danger.
Like gypsies, is once they can finger a souse,
Your pockets they pick, and they pilfer your house,
And give your estate to a stranger."
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Air 24. When once I lay with another man's wife
Sung by Jenny
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| "Was this well done, Jenny! Women are decoy ducks; who can trust them! Beasts, jades, jilts, harpies, furies, whores!" |
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| "But the present time is ours, and nobody alive hath more. Why are the laws leveled at us? Are we more dishonest than the rest of mankind? What we win, gentlemen, is our own by the law of arms, and the right of conquest." |
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| "We retrench the superfluities of mankind. The world is avaricious, and I hate avarice. A covetous fellow, like a jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it. These are the robbers of mankind, for money was made for the free-hearted and generous, and where is the injury of taking from another, when he hath not the heart to make use of?" |
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| "Peachum then intends to outwit me in this affair; but I'll be even with him. The dog is leaky in his liquor, so I'll ply him that way, get the secret from him, and turn this affair to my own advantage. Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves, or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. Peachum is my companion, my friend. According to custom of the world, indeed, he may quote thousands of precedents for cheating me. And shall not I make use of the privilege of friendship to make him a return?" |
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"The modes of the Court so common are grown,
That a true friend can hardly be met;
Friendship for interst is but a loan,
Which they let out for what they can get.
'Tis true friend, you find
Some friends so kind,
Who will give you good counsel themselves to defend.
In sorrowful ditty,
They promise, they pity,
But shift you for money, from friend to friend." |
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Air 44. Lillibullero
Song by MacHeath |
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"Ourselves, like the great, to secre a retreat,
When matters require it, must give up our gang:
And good reason why,
Ev'n Peachum and I,
Like poor petty rascals, might hang, hang;
Like poor petty rascals, might hang." |
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Air 56. A cobbler there was, etc.
Song by Lockit |
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"Since laws were made for ev'ry degree,
To curb vice in others, as well as me,
I wonder we ha'n't better company,
Upon Tyburn tree!
But gold from law can take out the sting;
And if rich men like us were to swing,
'Twould thin the land, such numbers to string
Upong Tyburn tree!" |
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Air 67. Green Sleeves
Song by MacHeath |
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"For my having broke prison, you see, gentlemen, I am ordered immediate execution. The sheriff's officers, I believe, are now at the door. That Jemmy Twitcher should peach me, I own surprised me! 'Tis a plain proof that the world is all alike, and that even our gang can no more trust one another than other people. Therefore, I beg you, gentlemen, look well to yourselves, for in all probability you may live some months longer." |
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| MacHeath; Act III, Scene 14 |
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"Peachum and Lockit, you know, are infamous scoundrels. Their lives are as much in your power, as yours are in theirs. Remember your dying friend. 'Tis my last request. Bring those villains to the gallows before you, and I am satisfied." |
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| MacHeath; Act III, Scene 14 |
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Money and Material Culture:
Yahoos
Houyhynhymns |
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Yahoos:
Shinny rocks
Houyhynhymns:
Don't place value on material goods because
it's not rational |
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Benevolence - dissinterest in possitive acts
Houyhynhymns |
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- The desire to serve someone who has reason and like them because they are rational
- Houyhynhymns think that the more raional you are, the better and the more they like you
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Sex and Family:
Houyhynhymns
European Yahoos
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Houyhynhymns:
One male and one female child per adult couple
Don't have the emotions that go w/ parenthood
Consider parenthood as fulfilling their duty
Procreate to replace themselves only
European Yahoos:
Infadelity and genetic failures
Bad lifestyles lead to a weak upperclass |
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Health and Food:
Houyhynhymns
Yahoos and European Yahoos |
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Influenced by John Locke
Houyhynhymns:
Graze
Eat milk and oats
Doesn't cost alot of money (economic)
Healthy
Yahoos and European Yahoos:
Eat anything they can find |
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| "It is a very justifiable cause of war to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions amongst themselves. It is justifiable to enter into a war against our nearest ally, when one of his towns lies convenient for us, or a territory of land, that would render our dominions round and compact." |
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| Chapter 5; Voyage to the Houyhynhymns |
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| "Whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; that when a Yahoo had got a great store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to, the finest clothing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females... That the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man's labor, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former. That the bulk of our people was forced to live miserably, by laboring every day for small wages to make a few live plentifully." |
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| Chapter 6; Voyage to the Houyhynhymns |
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| "For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know no whither, at length a boy discovers a land from the topmast, they go on shore to rob and plunder; they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness, they give the country a new name, they take formal possession of it for the king, they set up a rotton plank or a stone for a memorial, they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more by force for a sample, return home, and get their pardon. Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by devine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity, the natives are driven out and distroyed, their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants; and this execrable crew of butchers employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people." |
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Chapter 12; Voyage to the Houyhynhymns
Gulliver is explaining why he didn't claim Houyhynhymn land for the king |
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