94;⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪WSProfilesRachelApplication DataMicrosoftWordAutoRecovery save of ShakespeareEssay2.asd AmbereC:WINDOWSProfilesRachelAly love each other either. Instead, they simply use each other in the game of politics. King John relies on his mothers advice, as when she urges him to marry Blanche to the Dauphin. Eleanor tells him, Son, list to this conjunction; make this match (2.1.469). However, Johns grief when he hears of her death is limited to one line, when he says My mother dead! (4.2.183). Indeed, his first reaction to the news is a political one. He frets, What, Mother dead?/ How wildly then walks my estate in France! (4.2.127-8). Obviously, he used her rather than loved her. By the end of the play, they too are both dead.Princess Blanche and Lewis the Dauphins marriage itself is purely political. King John gives Lewis Blanches hand in marriage along with several provinces in order to win peace with France and to secure his claim to the throne of England. Blanche never pretends that shes marrying out of love. In consenting to the marriage, Blanches says only, My uncles will in this respect is mine./ If he see aught in you that makes him like/I can with ease translate it to my will (2.1.511-14). (Immediately afterward, she corrects herself and replaces the word will with love). Indeed, she tells Lewis that she will not lie and say that everything she sees in him is worthy of love. Instead, she only admits that, nothing do I see in you,/ That I can find should merit any hate (2.1.519-21). On the other hand, Lewis makes extravagant claims of love, protesting, I never loved myself/ Till now infixd I beheld myself/ Drawn in the flattering table of her eye (2.1.502-4). He is, of course, lying to gain the advantage of Blanches dowry. Throughout the play, we see nothing i...
