Status Updates From Troilus ve Cressida

Venereal image of Agamemnon makes sense-- his sin is sexual. Furthermore, he's the "source" of flaw among the Greeks, which spreads down the military hierarchy, according to Thersites in a meta deconstruction of Ulysess' bottom-up argument.

Stayed up reading this just for my professor to forget he has a 3 hour seminar and go swimming

Not to mention— Thersites is genuinely funny. His cynicism is appealing in the otherwise wooden play.

Opens up somewhat in the second act. Here, Thersites, structurally our fool, unravels Ulysses’ grand dialogue into truth; whereas Ulysses identifies a bottom-up dilemma (where soldiers scorn their betters and hierarchy fails) Thersites proposes trickle-down foolery (Agamemnon, whose foolish war demands hierarchical servitude, implicates Greece in his foolery— from the top down)

Impenetrable Shakespeare; words chosen here have not stood the test of time, exacerbate immensely poetic passages. Ulysses has interesting ideas, although requires much work.

Class focuses on Thersites, who’ll emerge in act 2; nonetheless, I look forward to not having to read this anymore