Bennett and Royle argue that, far from having a merely “decorative” function “figuration is fundamental to our world, to our lives” (“Figures and Tropes” 82).
Keeping this sentence in mind, explain two (2) tropes/figures of speech in the stanza below, and relate these lines to larger conceptual ideas of sexual difference or racial difference. You are only required to chose one, either sexual or racial difference. Explain how figuration is not just decorative but linked in an important way.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels, had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree—such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o’er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word ‘choose’! I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard […] that I cannot choose, nor refuse none (7)?
Your world limit is strictly 400 words. Do not make any grammatical mistakes and DO NOT just copy lines from a book or another assignment. It all comes up on my university receipt when the essay is submitted.
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