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"The Winter's Tale:" 'The Madness of Leontes appears with terrifying speed and threatens to destroy the world around him.' Discuss.
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'The Madness of Leontes appears with terrifying speed and threatens to destroy the world around him.' Discuss. Leontes' 'tyranny working together with (his) jealousies' causes him to lose his only son by death and his wife, daughter, most expert advisor and oldest friend by estrangement for sixteen years. It is his jealousy that lies at the heart of his madness and it is his power as king that allows him act on this jealousy and wreak havoc upon those people closest to him. Leontes' jealousy appears in the second scene of the first act, with alarming swiftness and based on no real evidence. The suspicion begins to grow when Hermione manages to convince Polixenes to prolong his stay in Sicilia, Leontes takes it as a personal affront saying: 'at my request he would not.' From this moment on the jealousy begins to grow, this is made worse by the fact that Leontes...
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