Coriolanus Essay Prompts Example For Students

Coriolanus Essay Prompts A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareVOLUMNIA: O, no more, no more!You have said you will not grant us anything;For we have nothing else to ask but thatWhich you deny already; yet we will ask,That, if you fail in our request, the blameMay hang upon your hardness. Think with thyselfHow more unfortunate than all living womenAre we come hither; since that thy sight, which shouldMake our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts,Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow,Making the mother, wife, and child to seeThe son, the husband, and the father tearingHis countrys bowels out. And to poor weThine enmitys most capital. Thou barrst usOur prayers to the gods, which is a comfortThat all but we enjoy. For how can we,Alas, how can we for our country pray,Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,Whereto we are bound? Alack, or we must loseThe country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,Our comfort in the country. We must findAn evident calamity, though we hadOur wish which side should win. For either thouMust as a foreign recreant be ledWith manacles through our streets, or elseTriumphantly tread on thy countrys ruin,And bear the palm for having bravely shedThy wife and childrens blood. For myself, son,I purpose not to wait on fortune tillThese wars determine. If I cannot persuade theeRather to show a noble grace to both partsThan seek the end of one, thou shalt no soonerMarch to assault thy country than to treadTrust to t, thou shalt not on thy mothers wombThat brought thee to this world.