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Hero and Leander - Coggle Diagram
Hero and Leander
Desire
Leander
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"Some swore he was a maid in man's attire, / For in his looks were all that men desire" (83-84)
"The lusty god (Neptune) embraced him, called him love, / And swore he never should return to Jove." (167-9)
Neptune
"How that a shepherd, sitting in a vale, / Played with a boy so fair and kind, / As for his love both earth and heaven pined" (194-6). Neptune wants to dandle Leander.
Gender Performance
Leander
"Leander, thou art made for amorous play: / Why art thou not in love, and loved of all? / Though thou be fair, yet be not thine own thrall." (88-90)
The man is framed as fun and flirty and everyone is on bored with this disposition (as opposed to how this would be framed in R + J)
"And now begins Leander to display / Love's holy fire, with words, with sighs and tears," (192-193)
Hero
"And all that viewed her were enamored on her, / And as in fury of a dreadful fight, / Their fellows being slain or put to fight, / Poor soldiers stand with fear of death dead-strooken..."(118-121).
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"And yet at every word she turned aside, / And always cut him off as he replied." (195-6).
Vow of chastity to Venus..."Ah simple Hero, learn thyself to cherish; / Lone women like to empty houses perish." (241-2)
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