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| Character | Timon | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Persuasive | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Tragedy, Drama | |
| Description | Timon praises his friends | |
| Location | ACT I, Scene 2 | |
Summary
Timon is a generous wealthy man in Athens who enjoys sharing his wealth with his friends without expecting anything in return. In the first scene of the play a poet, a painter and a jeweler arrive to his house, hoping to sell their goods and services, knowing of his generous nature. He buys from them and then negotiates to pay for the release of a friend who is in jail because of his debts, Ventidius. In the second scene of ACT I, Timon throws a feast in his house and invites all his friends. Apemantus, a friend of Timon's who is always criticizing everybody, mocks him for his foolish generosity. Timon's other friends, on the other hand, flatter him and praise him.
When a lord comments that one day it will be his friends' turn to return his generosity Timon tells them that he doesn't expect anything in return. They are repaying him just by being his friends.
When a lord comments that one day it will be his friends' turn to return his generosity Timon tells them that he doesn't expect anything in return. They are repaying him just by being his friends.
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| TIMON O, no doubt, my good friends, but the gods themselves have provided that I shall have much help from you: how had you been my friends else? why have you that charitable title from thousands, did not you chiefly belong to my heart? I have told more of you to myself than you can with modesty speak in your own behalf; and thus far I confirm you. O you gods, think I, what need we have any friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em? they were the most needless creatures living, should we ne'er have use for 'em, and would most resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their sounds to themselves. Why, I have often wished myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you. We are born to do benefits: and what better or properer can we can our own than the riches of our friends? O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have so many, like brothers, commanding one another's fortunes! O joy, e'en made away ere 't can be born! Mine eyes cannot hold out water, methinks: to forget their faults, I drink to you. |
