Marullus You Sir What Trade Are You Analysis

be good humored and witty when Marullus asks him '' You sir what trade are you'' addressing the cobbler with ''sir'' that may be understood in an ironic way. Irony is a matter of contrast. Pun and word play are also figures of contrast between what is said and what is actually said. Marullus uses the pronoun you, but as it is repeated it may be meant a sarcastic manner. It is the repletion of the use of a word in a specific situation that produces a sense a scornful manner. The cobbler admits himself as a cobbler and answer Marullus and Flavius by using pun to enrage and disturb them saying:'' A trade sir that I hope I may use, with a safe conscience, which is indeed sir, a mender of bad souls'' The cobbler uses pun on soul and sole. Two words have the same sound, but different meaning that can be used as a pun. This answer makes Marullus lose his temper calling the cobbler ''a naughty knave''. The cobbler goes on making fun of them by using pun in the following text. Text no. 4
'' Nay I beseech you sir, be not out with me; yet if you be out sir, I can mend you''. The cobbler in this conversation uses homonymic pun according to Alexander's model that is the exploitation of words which are both homographs and homophones. The first ''out'' is understood as ''angry''; the second refers to worn

He uses polysemic pun extensively in his plays and poetry to heighten dramatic effect, to comment ironically, to create wit, and to link situations, thoughts and feelings. In this dialogue, taken from Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses the word live as polysemic pun. The word live in each line has different meaning. In first line the word live means like music, while in the second line the word live means having faith in the church, and in the third line the word live means stand