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This 2 page essay provide a character analysis of Imogen -- one of Shakespeare's strongest female characters -- by analyzing three specific passages from the play.
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to exhibit an inner strength, declaring, "How fine this tyrant / Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband, / I something fear my fathers wrath, but nothing- / Always
reservd my holy duty- what / His rage can do on me" (I.i.97-101). The Queen decides that Imogen must marry her son, but again Imogen answers only to herself, marrying
Posthumus, a scholarly gentleman of her own choosing. Angering both her father and stepmother by marrying a commoner, Posthumus is banished from the country and ordered never to return.
Posthumus has decided to settle in Rome, and soon takes up with a crowd of rowdy young men who attempt to inspire doubt his wifes fidelity in his absence.
Iachimo bets Posthumus that he can go to Britain and win the love of Imogen and Posthumus, confident of his wifes faithfulness, pledges his wifes diamond ring which she
has given him as a love token in exchange for the bracelet Iachimo will take from Imogen (a similar token from Posthumus), as evidence of her adultery. Iachimo soon
learns of Imogens strength of character when he is heartily welcomed by the princess, but only because of his friendship with Posthumus. When he makes romantic overtures to Imogen
distainfully resists him, declaring, "Away! I do condemn mine ears that have / So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable, / Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue,
not / For such an end thou seekst, as base as strange. / Thou wrongst a gentleman who is as far / From thy report as thou from honour; and
/ Solicits here a lady that disdains / Thee and the devil alike" (I.vi.165-172). Iachimo, nevertheless, manages to steal the bracelet and convinces Posthumus that his wife has been unfaithful.
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