Winter's Tale Thesis

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For my extra credit I have decided to select the Winter’s Tale and discuss some of the horticulture aspects that were highlighted in its text. One aspect that was mentioned on our last quiz was the conversation between Perdita and Polixenes, in regards to “nature’s bastards” and regular carnations. I chose this particular topic because I found it fascinating and I was intrigued by the completely different perspectives of the two people. In the conversation they started arguing about which flower was better and more “superior”, the one with the striped and pied appearance that had been hand crafted, or the plain, solid colored one which was solely crafted by nature itself. Within this argument, the reader is able to infer that there is a plant

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