1. Act 4, Scene 4, Lines 461-666 By: Ruth M., Izzy, Luke, and Ivy

2. Synopsis Camillo convinces Florizel & Perdita to go to Sicilia –They can marry there ~ Polixenes doesn’t want them to –Camillo thinks bringing them there will reunite kings –Shifts play back to Sicilia, brings Leontes back Florizel pays Autolycus – switch clothes The three then leave to a ship

3. Characters Camillo – has own goals, loyal Florizel – in love Perdita – in love Autolycus – always makes situations benefit him, tricky, deceptive

4. Analyze Style Parallelism ~ with wind (4.4, 539) going back to (1.1, 31) and also in (2.3, 153) –Each section talking about how the wind is pushing them/forcing them to do something Personification –(4.4, 476-477) “Let Nature crush the sides o’th’earth together And mar the seeds within!” ~ Florizel –(4.4, 487-490) “The close earth wombs or the profound seas hides In unknown fathoms” ~ Florizel Irony –(4.4, 652-653) “I see the play so lies That I must bear a part.” –(4.4, 578-579) “She is as forward of her breeding as She is I’th’rear’ our birth.” ~ Florizel

5. Motifs Nature –Wind (4.4, 539) –‘Nature’ (4.4, 476) ~ demonstrating how nature is a greater power, referencing beings/things greater then humans, kings, or princes ~ referencing Hierarchy again, how the gods, and nature control what happens to the kings, peasants, anyone; they are above all

6. Key Lines Florizel (4.4, 535-539): "Not any yet: But as th'unthought on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies of every wind that blows." Perdita (4.4, 552-653): "I see the play so lies that I must bear a part“ Camillo (540-543): "This follows, if you will not change your purpose But undergo this flight: make for Sicilia, And there present yourself and your fair princess- For so I see she must be-'fore Leontes."

7. Questions What do you think the significance of this passage is? Who do you think is going to realize who Perdita is?