Friday, October 16, 2009

Decameron Part III

1. The maiden communicates through manipulating the friar’s concern and her own words. The friar brings word to the gentleman and he interprets them, as the lady hopes, the way she means them. This trickery depicts the friar as a gullible man. Although he falls for this deceit every time, there really is no way for him to suspect anything. The gentleman admits to stalking the woman every time accordingly to the woman’s story. In the end the lovers abuse and utilize the friar’s commitment to ensuring harmony for the sake of their love. The friar is simply a tool unaware that it is being used.

2. Ricciardo fools Catella into believing her husband planned to commit adultery. To watch his master plan unfold, he utilized her hot-headedness and apparent jealousy. Eventually he convinced her that her husband was meeting Ricciardo’s wife to commit said adultery. He had Catella go in place of his wife, while he went and hid in place of her husband. He tricked her into lying with him and blackmailed her to continue loving him. I personally feel the manner he convinces her to keep silent and love him eventually originates out of selfish and jealous emotions. It is clearly from wicked thoughts with only an influence of love. Perhaps the plan unfolds due to a wicked love or a love so madly ferocious and out of control it had no other option.

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