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A 5 page paper which examines how innocence is often subjected to blight, considers whether innocence has power in this play, and the relationship between purity and maturity. No additional sources are used.
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- April 2001 -- properly! William Shakespeare takes a long, cold look at innocence in
his tragic play, "The Winters Tale," in which each of the innocent characters are eventually subjected to blight by those who suspect that their natures are not as pure as
the driven snow. The jealous King Leontes of Sicilia suspects that he is not the father of his wife Hermoines child. Leontes suspects that she and his old
friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia have been having an affair, and he instructs his aide, Camillo, to poison the monarch. When Hermoine, who has done nothing wrong, reveals her
husbands murderous plot, both Camillo and Polixenes manage to escape unharmed. This prompts a livid Leontes to publicly accuse his wife of adulterous behavior, and orders her immediate imprisonment.
During her incarceration, Hermoine gives birth to a daughter, and her faithful friend, Paulina, takes the baby to Leontes, hoping that seeing it will soften his tough stance against his
wife. Paulina remarks, "Ill showt the King, and undertake to be / Her advocate to th loudst. We do not know / How he may soften at the sight
o th child: / The silence often of pure innocence / Persuades when speaking fails" (II.ii.48-52). Paulina believes that gazing at this innocent bundle will touch a responsive (and
paternal) chord within Leontes, but she is sadly mistaken. He sees not the baby not chaste infant, but as a physical reminder of his wifes infidelity, having transferred the
ugliness of his paranoia onto the child. After seeing the baby, an infuriated Leontes orders Paulinas husband, Antigonus, to take the child away. Meanwhile, Hermoine pleads her own
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