Shakespeare presents the effects of Leontes’ behaviour on Camillo and Polixenes through the use of dialogue, humour, imagery and elliptical language. Leontes’ behaviour intrigues many people who know the story of ‘The Winter’s Tale’. Behaviour such as that of Leontes can come from an experience of loss as a child. According to Henry James “the great source of terror in infancy is solitude”. As a child Leontes and Polixenes were separated. Camillo speaks of …showed first 75 words of 1196 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1196 total…Camillo feels that he is doing the right thing. Because of everything that happened and Leontes’ accusations, Polixenes is forced away from his friends in Sicilia and their close family network. It is as though Bohemia lost Sicilia as a friend and an ally. Time, in the end, restores their friendship and the friends are once again reunited. (this is not a perfect essay. it needs more quotes in it. but it might be helpfull)