Tuesday, February 26, 2019
The Ladder of Happiness
Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter L (tr. Edith Grossman):
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...and this being true, I'll do what I want, and doing what I want, I'll do what I like, and doing what I like, I'll be happy, and when a man is happy he doesn't wish for anything else, and not wishing for anything else, that'll be the end of it...The uneducated Sancho Panza is using a sophisticated rhetorical device, the climax or gradatio. For other examples see:
...y, siéndolo, haría lo que quisiese; y, haciendo lo que quisiese, haría mi gusto; y, haciendo mi gusto, estaría contento; y, en estando uno contento, no tiene más que desear; y, no teniendo más que desear, acabóse...
- Stop Laughing
- A Climax in St. Jerome
- The Long and the Short of It
- A Climax in Epicharmus
- Two Passages from Plutarch
- The Ladder Revisited
- Ladder
- Rhetorical Device
