Julius Caesar, Morbid Circumspectus

The destruction of male chauvinism occurred in the the year 47 B.C.E.



The procession in the Nile epitomized the pitiful state in which Julius Caesar was in, as he walked besides Cleopatra in a beautiful act of submission. Perhaps he had some logic, fluid of thought. But the truth is, logos can never reach the fluidity of ubiquity. Cleopatra embodied ubiquity, she successfully managed to control it at her will. Unfortunately for Julius Caesar, and for us as the male gender, women were and will always be able to give us the exclusionary perception of being fulfilled, complete. Caught in the illusion of carnal divinity. Throughout the ages, in a grotesque, dull decadence, since Julius Caesar gave away Alexandria to Cleopatra, we, condemned men cope with our crippled self to counteract this reality.



721 Tho redde he me how Sampson loste his heres:
Then he read me how Sampson lost his hair:
722 Slepynge, his lemman kitte it with hir sheres;
Sleeping, his lover cut it with her shears;
723 Thurgh which treson loste he bothe his yen.
Through which treason he lost both his eyes.
724 Tho redde he me, if that I shal nat lyen,
Then he read to me, if I shall not lie,
725 Of Hercules and of his Dianyre,
Of Hercules and of his Dianyre,
726 That caused hym to sette hymself afyre.
Who caused him to set himself on fire.


The Wife Of Bath utilizes with great mastery the arts of beguilement and deceit, and despite her pejorative figure throughout the tale, when talking about Jankyn, a more tender, humane character arises. Assuming a mediator role between the reader and the overall theme of the tale. As the passage shown above, she recalls some fortuitous examples of "morbid circumspectus" from women to men, being it the elemental theme portrayed by Chaucer in the tale.



1242 I prey to God that I moote sterven wood,
I pray to God that I may die insane
1243 But I to yow be also good and trewe
Unless I to you be as good and true
1244 As evere was wyf, syn that the world was newe.
As ever was wife, since the world was new.
1245 And but I be to-morn as fair to seene
And unless I am tomorrow morning as fair to be seen
1246 As any lady, emperice, or queene,
As any lady, empress, or queen,
1247 That is bitwixe the est and eke the west,
That is between the east and also the west,
1248 Dooth with my lyf and deth right as yow lest.
Do with my life and death right as you please.
1249 Cast up the curtyn, looke how that it is."
Cast up the curtain, look how it is."



A fixed closure demeans the initial rampage of the text, however, a suitable union of the juxtaposing themes within marital relations was reached towards the ending by Alisoun. Revealing the real harmony behind Cleopatras obliquity, the parallel state woman convey when wanting to really serve its concubine, even if it justifies all means possible.



231 A wys wyf, if that she kan hir good,
A wise wife, if she knows what is good for her,
232 Shal beren hym on honde the cow is wood,
Shall deceive him by swearing the bird is crazy,