VS Chaos Order is when things happen in an expected manner, chaos is when order is broken, and things become unpredictable, and is often dangerous. Although order and chaos are opposites, they cannot exist without the other. This can be easily noticed in many places, such as the ecosystem we depend on. Animals thrive together, and the population grows. However, pollution occasionally disrupts the environment, and creates a disproportionate amount of an animal to its predator, creating chaos. The
Dante sees is subtly referenced to when Marlow comes across “[b]lack shapes crouched….clinging to the earth…in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair” (14). The workers are described as empty husks of humans, barely visible and as thin as air, symbolising the pain and suffering brought to these people by the colonial powers scavenging the Congo for ivory. Marlow recognizes these horrors, much like Dante does when he journeys to the center of the earth, where the Inferno is
respond suggesting he is also quite conscious. Feste explains how he does not ‘wear motley in [his] brain’. Feste intends to inform Olivia that he may be wearing silly clothes, but his foolishness is only skin deep. The multi-coloured clothes represent chaos and disorder, however, Feste outlines his brain as the opposite; calm and in equilibrium. Feste’s claim is from the heart, suggesting that he feels strongly against being called a fool. Here, Shakespeare uses contrast to emphasise the intelligence