Evisceration

To our professor's chagrin last semester in Shakespeare class, our essays, or at least the majority must have been rather poor in textual analysis but rich with skimming paraphrases and assumptions. Instead of asking us to write a ten-page essay on a general thematic issue in one play, he's asked us to analyse two speeches from Coriolanus and Troilus and Cressida, the first one being when Martius first eviscerates the First Citizens, and the second where Thersites satirises Achilles and Patroclus and Agamemnon but most of all, Menelaus. The only requirement for this assigment is we focus on the language itself, not what we think we already know, but what is written on the page.

Here is my attempt, flawed and teeming with errors as it is.