Sunday, October 26, 2008

What's Harry Potter Doing Here?

"If we and Caius Martius chance to meet,
Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike
Till one can do no more"
Act 1.2.34-36

When I first read over this line, I felt a since of familiarity. Reading it again, I picked up that it was similar to the Potter-Voldemort line that "neither can live while the other survives." Its a stretch but I feel as though it the same type of strange rivalry that they must end or else they will never be able to live full lives, or at least on the side of Aufidius. Of course at the end of the act, this doesn't happen and so he vows once more that they will fight "beard to beard... sword to sword." (Act 1.10.11,15)

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