Jaques is a Bundle of Inconsistencies

According to Stanley Wood, Jaqus is a bundle of inconsistencies. He is a mixture of ‘witty sensibility and merry sadness’. He is a child of folly and a professor of wisdom. At one moment he loves his melancholy better than his laughing, but at another moment, he

laughs ‘sans intermission an hour by his dial’. At one time he seeks society; at another he avoids the company of man. He has been sensual in his youth and has exhausted all the pleasures of the artificial life of the court. He is a man of lively imagination and artistic temperament. Being deceived in his intercourse with man, he turns from the vanities of the court to seek comfort and consolation in nature and solitude. But he cannot change his nature. He has not within him the spirit of reverence and contentment to lead him to true happiness. Thus, he is a bundle of inconsistencies. 

 

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