Twelfth Night, last half of Act 5, Sn. 1

Just then, Sir Andrew comes in and says that Cesario came to them and beat them up. He has a bloody head himself, and says that Sir Toby is also suffering from the same complaint. Sir Toby comes staggering in drunk, and says that he was beaten, and that Sir Andrew is a coward and that he hates drunken fools.  Sir Andrew helps him off to bed, and Olivia says that they must be looked to. Then Sebastian comes in and clears things up. He greets Olivia with love and knows Antonio. He sees Viola, and asks her some questions that clear up the fact of their looking alike. She discloses the fact that she is a woman, and tells them about the captain who has her woman's clothes. Olivia and Sebastian are married, and Viola and Orsino will be later.

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A study of Titus and Philopoemen

Titus                                                                                
Failings:  Ambition and greed for honor.  
Strengths: Caution, loyal to friends, merciful, generous.
       Philopoemen 
Failings: Obstinacy, greed for honor, and Ambition, lack of caution, often mean and cruel. (See my posts on him.)
Strengths: Valour, did many brave things, had it in him to command, in or out of office.

A bit about them: Titus was not in battle, but he did command his men well. Do you think he should get less credit for having his army ready made? I don't think so. He could have wrecked the whole thing, even though it was already there. Have you ever seen a well-run organization have a change in management, and the whole thing goes downhill? That could have happened. He still had to run it well. Just having it there did not make it easy.
Philopoemen was very brave, but he often put himself first. He was often very mean to conquered people. He did have to build his army up, and keep it going, and he had to have a lot of courage, more so than Titus, to oppose Rome. He was not nice, however, and did not act with discretion in war, but wasted away his life by acting prematurely. He prodigalled away his life, by acting with haste, not like Titus, who acted with caution, as did Fabius, yet Titus moved, and did fight many battles. So I think better of Titus. Titus was kind, and combined the good points of Fabius with the good points of a "fights lots of battles" general. If you want to learn more about Philopoemen, look at my posts about him, under the label "Plutarch." I wrote them a long time ago, so they are not the best. However, Philopoemen was very honest. He changed, however, and was very mean to the Spartans.

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End of Books- some information

Here is some information about when I end a book.

• I will start new books in a couple weeks, so don't worry, I'm not going to leave! :-)
• I am taking a break for a week or so, so I won't be posting. I'll be back though! ;-) 

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Nicias--The End

The End of Nicias



Nicias was captured, and all the rest of the generals as well. The Sycrusians wanted to kill all the generals, but a message was sent to them enabling them to kill themselves with the help of the guards. The rest of the Athenians were sent to work in the quarries, but some were thought to be servants, and were sold as slaves. But their orderly conduct was a great help to them, and many were set free for it, or gained to respect of the masters they staid with. Many were set free because they recited some of a famous poet's poetry, that was much in demand among the Sycrusians.

I would rather be sold as a slave, because the people in the quarries only got a pint of barley for food, and a little water. Also, I might be set free if I knew any poetry.

The End!
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King Lear

The End of King Lear

Basically, everyone dies! Regan and Gonril kill each other, Edmund is killed in a fight with Edgar, Cordelia is killed by order of Edmund, and Lear dies of grief. Kent kills himself to be with Lear, and Albany and Edgar now rule.

The End
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