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The Characteristic Attitudes Of Tamburlaine's Speech

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The most characteristic attitude of Tamburlaine’s speeches is the anticipation of the future. This is suggested not only when Tamburlaine is revealing his plans for the future, but even in self-glorification. Actually, in his hero’s speeches, Marlowe tried to express his will. All the main character’s speeches are expressions of a great will which, combined with his fantastic anticipations, contribute to the creation of a new dramatic speech inexistent in English drama previously. These speeches are characterized by passion and drive and they have the effect of disrupting the static pattern of the old rhetorical structures. Tamburlaine’s speeches show a tendency towards heightened effects and towards amplification, characteristics specific to classical plays. The effect of amplification is not achieved by rhetorical devices but by imagination. Even when Tamburlaine speaks to Zenocrate to tell her to sit down on the throne beside Zabrina, her name and her beauty create in his imagination increasingly fantastic images with which he invests …show more content…

Zenocrate is surrounded in Part I by a sparkling light-imagery. Tamburlaine paints her in clear mountain air, jewel-decorated in the glitter of ice and snow. Zenocrate is exclusively associated with suggestions of brightness and purity. Such impressions are suggested in the jewel and star images, and in such phrases as that her looks can “clear the darkened sky. She is also associated with white and silver. In one or two instances, suggestions of whiteness are used in connection with military actions. The infernal imagery is projected mainly through the speeches of Tamburlaine’s opponents, especially Bajazeth, who more than anyone else suffers brutal and inhuman treatment. His laments and curses include all the dark and violent acts and emotions of the play into imagery which frequently alludes to the characteristics of the classical

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