LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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He is a loyal attendant to the prince.
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He insinuates to Emilia’s father that the prince is responsible for Marinelli’s death.
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He takes full responsibility for ordering the death of Count Appiani.
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He blackmails the prince for half of his fortune.
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In order to sabotage the prince’s marriage plans, he tells Emilia that the prince ordered the death of her fiancé, Count Appiani.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-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.