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How do the ideas and languages of these speeches help to create the effect of Leontes' jealousy?
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How do the ideas and languages of these speeches help to create the effect of Leontes' jealousy? The language with which Shakespeare creates Leontes' jealousy can be seen clearly in the first speech: "Ha' not you seen, Camillo / But that's past doubt; you have, or your eye-glass / is thicker than a cuckold's horn" The "Ha' not you seen Camillo" is almost a desperate plea for an answer to a question that doesn't exist and just by looking at that sentence you can feel the anger and this can be counted as an insult towards Camillo because he is accusing Camillo of being ignorant to his surroundings. Shakespeare uses the world "cuckold" which straightforwardly means a horn, like that coming out of a unicorn's head. In the sixteen hundreds this word was used as a symbol of shame and was used against men who had been ashamed by their wives i.e. their...
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