8.3: Boccaccio uses this idea of not knowing and tricky to fool Calandrino. Bruno and Buffalmacco both are tired and hungry from helping Calandrino try to find these magic rocks. Calandrino picks up a ton of rocks and is still trying to go in search for more in the heat. When Bruno and Buffalmacco act like they can’t see Calandrino and he falls for it thinking he found the rock that brings humor into the vignette. Also when they are throwing stones at him on the way home as if they can’t see him and he so caught up that he foolishly falls for the trick, walking through the town thinking no one can see him, not realizing that Bruno and Buffalmacco got the people to go along with the idea to make him think he was invisible even though he is not.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The Decameron (Day Five)
7.5: The theme in this book seems to be jealousy. In the prologue the narrator looks down and feels that a jealous man deserves anything that is coming his way. The narrator oppresses this idea of male dominance in the marriage. The narrator talks about how the women is pint down and lock away like she is a prisoners, while the husband is free. The narrator says that “whatever a wife does to a husband who is jealous without a reason is certainly to be praised rather than to be condemned” (508). Our society is in the middle. Compared to this text our society is in the middle while there is this idea of women independence and dominance in the air there is still more male dominance so it’s hard to say whether or if we can truly say that we regressed or progressed.
8.3: Boccaccio uses this idea of not knowing and tricky to fool Calandrino. Bruno and Buffalmacco both are tired and hungry from helping Calandrino try to find these magic rocks. Calandrino picks up a ton of rocks and is still trying to go in search for more in the heat. When Bruno and Buffalmacco act like they can’t see Calandrino and he falls for it thinking he found the rock that brings humor into the vignette. Also when they are throwing stones at him on the way home as if they can’t see him and he so caught up that he foolishly falls for the trick, walking through the town thinking no one can see him, not realizing that Bruno and Buffalmacco got the people to go along with the idea to make him think he was invisible even though he is not.
8.8: Passion is still celebrated today. There are lots of people who have more than one wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, and there spouse is okay with the idea of sharing. For some people they rather share what they have than to lose it in whole. People would rather have a part of something to then to give it away altogether. At the end of 8.8 when it said the four made a packet to stay with each other and now the two husbands had two wives and the two wives had to two husbands. The idea of it being okay to not be faithful in a relationship/ marriage. Making it okay to cheat and not be monogamous. Which goes with today’s society because it’s this idea that it’s oaky to not be monogamous and it seems like it is more so common in society today than before.
8.3: Boccaccio uses this idea of not knowing and tricky to fool Calandrino. Bruno and Buffalmacco both are tired and hungry from helping Calandrino try to find these magic rocks. Calandrino picks up a ton of rocks and is still trying to go in search for more in the heat. When Bruno and Buffalmacco act like they can’t see Calandrino and he falls for it thinking he found the rock that brings humor into the vignette. Also when they are throwing stones at him on the way home as if they can’t see him and he so caught up that he foolishly falls for the trick, walking through the town thinking no one can see him, not realizing that Bruno and Buffalmacco got the people to go along with the idea to make him think he was invisible even though he is not.
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