Question Home

Position:Home>Books & Authors> I need some SERIOUS shakespeare help!!?


Question: I need some SERIOUS shakespeare help!!!?
Hold thy desperate hand:
Art thou a man!? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!

I need to figure out the circumstances under which this is being said, and translate each line into something more modern!. I WILL choose the best answer, very soon!Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
it sounds like someone's being insulted!. ^_^ i'll give the modernizing a go (it probably won't be poetic, though!.!.!.)

Stop: (i take that first line to be like "stay thy hand" etc)
Are you really a man!? You look like one:
You cry like a woman; you're acting
Like some kind of animal:
Pathetic woman looking like a proper man!
Or stupid animal looking human!

meh!.!.!.not the greatest, but does that help any!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

I know it is from Romeo and Juliet, the Friars monologue!.

As for translating it into something more modern, you might want to read the whole monologue and understand what is going on, so that it sinks in a little more and not from the snippet!.

Shakespeare is a bit hard to understand until you break it down, then you'll get it in a jiffy!

The whole monologue can be found in my source link!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Edit: Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 3
1!. Control yourself
2!. Act like a man; although you look like a man
3!. you're acting unmany and your behavior
4!. is like a wild animal
5!. You look like a man but you're acting like a hysterical woman
6!. or like a wild animal!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

That's from Romeo and Juliet! The Christian Brother is talking to Romeo!. Give me a minute!. I'll get more detail!.

Edit -- Teflon beat me to it!. See his link!.
Romeo has just committed homicide!. He killed Tybalt in a sword-fight and is overwhelmed, crying!.
The Friar remonstrates to him to be more of a man!.
This actually come out better on the stage than on the page!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

uhm!.!.!.!.!.here goes nothin'!

are you a man!? you look like one (body type, mucles, etc!.)
but you are crying like a woman!. your barbaric behavior shows your senseless fury is animalistic/cruel/violent!.

yuh!.!.!.that's all i can come up with! sorry!. i didn't translate it all!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

zack elliot!.!.!.!.hillsoborugh new jerseyWww@QuestionHome@Com

Well, I don't know which play that is from, but go to Sparknotes!.com, it is truly god's gift to English studentsWww@QuestionHome@Com