Last Lesson:
We learnt a lot about Dogberry's malapropisms that made him seem extremely idiotic to the audience. He does this a lot to in a way keep up with Verges when he acts big headed, as if he acts big headed then to the audience he will seem smart. However, as he uses so many malapropisms he just seems to the audience to be even less intelligent than he actually is.
We also learnt about Pathos, Bathos and Peripetia.
Pathos is a great emotional scene, for example in Act 4 Scene 1 there is a part where Benedick and Beatrice have a heated conversation, this would be pathos as during it love is confronted by the characters, but it is not too over the top that it would not be believed by the audience.
Bathos on the other hand is the opposite and would be described as mellowdramatic, it is when the conversation/scene is completely over the top, this is to the point where the audience can tell that it cannot be believed. An example of this is Leonato when he describes that his daughter should be left to die because of the rumour that she has been unfaithful, and it would be better for her to die as she would be more at peace.
Peripetia is completely different as it is an unfunny character flaw that will eventually lead to the characters downfall within the play, for example Hero's flaw is that she cannot speak unless spoken to as it would be 'against social convention'. This leads to her downfall as it overall means she cannot stand up for herself when accused of being unfaithful, this is bad as many saw it as a sign of her guilt.
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