Act 1 Scene 3

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“I cannot hide what I am” he can’t speak properly, speak in social manner, he likes that he is different, he’d rather have freedom and his insignificant power than do what someone else says. This is also backed up by “I had rather be a canker in hedge than a rose in his grace”

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This section is all about how trapped Don John and his lack of power, he compares this to numerous animals (dog, horse and a bird) showing how this feeling of being trapped has reduced him to less than human. He says that he has been “muzzled” which is his comparison to him being a dog, he is unable to talk freely and this is representative of how powerless he is as language is linked with power. He goes on to say he has “decreed not to sing in his cage” singing is a use of language, a display of power, and he refuses to do what is wanted of him. In a way this is the only power he was, the power to refuse what others want of him.