Get under, now, I tell you; and once there Be careful no one either sees or hears you. ORGON I'm going a long way to humour you, I must say; but I'll see you through your scheme. ELMIRE And then you'll have, I think, no more to say. (To her husband, who is now under the table.) But mind, I'm going to meddle with strange matters; Prepare yourself to be in no wise shocked. Whatever I may say must pass, because 'Tis only to convince you, as I promised. By wheedling speeches, since I'm forced to do it, I'll make this hypocrite put off his mask, Flatter the longings of his shameless passion, And give free play to all his impudence. But, since 'tis for your sake, to prove to you His guilt, that I shall feign to share his love, I can leave off as soon as you're convinced, And things shall go no farther than you choose. So, when you think they've gone quite far enough, It is for you to stop his mad pursuit, To spare your wife, and not expose me farther
unseen dualities of personality. T h e r e is no better d r a m a t i z a t i o n o f a polarized inner struggle than the chilling scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, where G o l l u m alternates be- tween the good and evil sides o f his own personality. T h e good side is what remains of his original identity as an innocent hobbit, Smeagol, and it resists temptation heroically, remembering the kindness and h u m a n i t y shown by his master, Frodo. But eventually the wheedling, crafty, evil side that has degenerated into G o l l u m t r i u m p h s w i t h fierce hate and jealousy, reversing the power balance w i t h i n the character. T h e p o l a r i t y o f the character h a d been aligned towards hope for Gollum's salvation; now it is aligned to the certainty that he will betray the hobbits in his greed to have the R i n g . Polarity was used here to show an inner struggle in a divided self. 15. AGON
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