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Summary Of Zadie Smith's 'Speaking In Tongues'

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In Zadie Smith’s lecture entitled, ‘Speaking in Tongues’ she stresses the concept of equivocation, using the life of William Shakespeare and his father to illustrate the antithesis of the lifestyle she advocates. This is particularly prevalent in the short passage on page 10 of her speech in the two paragraphs beginning with ‘And this we still know’. In this text, she first mentions equivocation in the context of politicians who must unequivocally espouse two particular pieces of dogma in order to advance their ambitions, regardless of their own potential beliefs on the matter. Smith then references the concept of equivocation again in the next paragraph, when she that “He [William Shakespeare] grew up in an atmosphere of equivocation, but
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