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Dear Cressida, Your Actions Speak Louder Than Your Words!!
In our class discusions we have throughly discussed Cressida. Cressida’s relationship with Troilus. Cressida’s relationship with Diomedes. And every other relationship she has in the story. Still today, I don’t quite know where stand with her. I wonder if she was evil and conniving from the start or whether her actions were shoved upon her upon the Trojan and Greek exchange. One thing I do know if that she is most definitely deceitful and manipulative. She too, is unsure of what she might become someday. She says, ” I have a kind of self resides with you;/ But an unkind self, that itself will leave to be another’s fool. / I would be gone. Where is my wit? I know not what I speak” (3.2 149-152). In today’s urban society one would classfiy Cressida as a “trick,” someone who deceives, lies, and is untrustworthy. You can look it up in at Urbandictionary.com if you need further connotation. 🙂
Cressida’s relationship with Troilus is rather interesting because neither of them pledged any vows to be with each other for the rest of their lives. We can furthermore classify their relationship as a lustful one, lasting as long as a 3rd grade romance. And by the end we see what love or lust as one can call it has done to Troilus. One thing I know I am definitely in Troilus’s side.