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An analysis of the characters of Sir John Falstaff
Name: 何荣慧 Class: 2010级英语教育(6)班 No.: 20100120021017
Introduction
Sir John Falstaff is one of the famous figures in Shakespeare’s Henry Ⅳ. He is a plicated character. He is the prince drinking buddy, both optimistic and humorous boaster and a liar, neither the concept of moral honor nor bad heart. Meanwhile, he lives in the people from feudal society to the modern period of social transition, he did not aggressive new public class, but infected with a happy optimism and their self-enjoyment, he used the kidding and laugh, fun to seek life. He represents a lot of feudal retainer who were thrown out of noble households in the period of the breaking up of old feudal relation and the forming of new bourgeois ones. In order to make people know Falstaff more clearly and objectively, this paper seeks to find out characters of Falstaff. The first part is to introduce the image of Falstaff. The second part is to find out the causes of shaping the character of Falstaff .The last part ments on Sir John Falstaff.
Ⅰ.The image of Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Falstaff is one of the most brilliant creations in Shakespeare’s plays. He was a courtly page and a solider when his young days. But after he has lost his estates and e an adventurer and parasite. Falstaff is fat , old, ugly, gross, and guilty of many sins. He is Prince Hal’s panion.