Cato the Trickster CATO Yes, massa; I ll tend to em.
{"Image DocumentName": "Cato the Trickster CATO Yes, massa; I ll tend to em.", "Image ImageDescription": "(exit Dr. GAINES, left) I allers knowed I was a doctor, an now de ole boss has put me at it, I muss change my coat. Ef any niggers comes in, I want to look suspectable . Dis jacket don t suit a doctor; I ll change it . (exit CATO -- immediately returning in a long coat) Ah! now I looks like a doctor. Now I can bleed, pull teef, or cut off a leg. Oh! well, well, ef I aint put de pill stuff an de intment stuff togedder. By golly, dat ole cuss will be mad when he finds it out, won t he? Nebber mind, I ll make it up in pills, and when de flour is on dem, he won t know what s in em; an I ll make some new intment. Ah! yonder comes Mr. Campbell s Pete an Ned; dems de ones massa sed was comin . I ll see ef I looks right. (goes to the looking-glass and views himself) I em some punkins, ain t I? (knock at the door) Come in. (Enter PETE and NED, right) PETE Whar is de doctor? CATO Here I is; don t you see me? Brown had a keen aesthetic sense of what the audience wanted. Melodrama was the order of the day, and dramatic action was interspersed with song, romance, tragedy, and triumph. Since minstrelsy had created the had created the contented slave stereotype, Brown offered his audience the character of Cato. [close read quote-trickster language, disguise, identity, Cato\u2019s faux-doctorhood] Throughout the play, Cato is portrayed as contented and docile, but his desire to escape his condition shows that this posture is a mask he must where in order to survive. I allers dose what you and the Massa tells me, an axes nobody, says Cato to his master\u2019s wife. The consummate trickster, Cato plays tricks and is tricked to survive on the plantation but away from hismaster, Cato confirms his own identity and recognize the plight of his people. When he sings about Canada, the dialect turns into high English, forcing the actor to test his understanding of how the song should be sung, and re-casting Cato as a leader of a chorus: And this brings us to our first close reading-group presentation. [change slide] 12.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}