LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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He cleans out the corruption of the court.
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He is sensible, whereas the other characters in the play are foolish.
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He reverses traditional morality and advocates murder so that he can marry Emilia.
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He is subject to extreme emotions when he thinks about Emilia.
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He proves that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Emilia Galotti is a German tragedy that focuses on the power and destruction of love. The play also explores the themes of the rising middle classes during the time of Enlightenment, and the subjugation and objectification of women.
Detailed explanation-2: -Set in Italy, Emilia Galotti tells the story of a virtuous young woman of the bourgeoisie. The absolutist prince of Guastalla, Hettore Gonzaga, becomes obsessed with the idea of making Emilia his lover after their first meeting.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Emilia Galotti (1772), his major “bourgeois tragedy, ” Lessing adapted the Roman legend of Virginia to the setting of 18th-century absolutism: a father is forced to kill his own daughter in order to protect her from seduction by an absolutist prince.
Detailed explanation-4: -Political satire is the use of humor and exaggeration to criticize or ridicule aspects of government and public affairs. The effect of this kind of satire rests on the use of allusion, a reference to a well-known person, event, or thing, and caricature, which exaggerates some feature of what is being referenced.