Imogen says in lines 41–42 that she is happy to be back with ""those who knew her."" Use evidence from the poem to explain whether people really know Imogen and what it means in the poem to know someone or know oneself. Your response should be at least one hundred words.
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I don't believe that people, even those that she called her family, really truly knew her and understood her. In fact, they mostly just took her at face value, believing her to be happy and joyful all the time rather than having her own internal issues. Jane and the children view Aunt Imogen mostly from a standpoint of the cheerful type that always is around to make others happy. However, they fail to look deeper and make a deeper analysis of who Aunt Imogen really is. In order to really know someone, it's important that you look further than just face value and how they appear on the inside, and to truly know yourself is more or less the same thing. You have to be familiar with your emotions and how your mind works in order to really truly know who you are as a person. As expressed later in the poem, Aunt Imogen has sadness and feelings of loss and loneliness deep inside of her that she doesn't show to much of anyone, if she happens to show it at
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I don't think anyone truly understood her, not even the individuals she considered her family. In fact, people largely just accepted her as she was, thinking she was always joyous and happy and didn't have any interior problems of her own. Aunt Imogen is primarily seen by Jane and the kids as the jovial sort who is always present to make others happy. They do not, however, delve farther or conduct a more thorough investigation of Aunt Imogen.
Explanation:
- It's crucial to look beyond a person's outward appearance and basic traits if you want to get to know them well; the same is true for getting to know oneself well. To properly understand who you are as a person, you must be comfortable with your emotions and how your mind functions. As stated later in the poem, Aunt Imogen experiences pain, loss, and loneliness on a deep level but rarely, if ever, expresses these emotions to others.
- Imogen, Cymbeline's daughter and heir apparent, was born into royalty.
- She is a lovely girl with blue eyes who is normally submissive and obedient but who also has a strong backbone and won't be persuaded against her own desires and integrity. This is demonstrated by the fact that she marries Posthumus against her father's wishes, refuses to get a divorce from him, and ignores Cloten's attempts to seduce her despite the King, her father, being in favor of the union.
- Her natural politeness keeps her from fully expressing her ideas until she is pushed too far, despite the fact that she is open and honest. She is chaste and forbids her husband from entering the bed of marriage; their union may not even be consummated.
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