A powerpoint written by Army_of_Change on the Shakespearian play the life of timon of athens.

1. Presentation by
Jared Forman

3. The Life of Timon OF Athens
SHORT FACTS
Character Name: Timon
Character Relevance: Protagonist
Shakespearian play: Timon of
Athens
Play’s setting: Athens, Greece
Play’s Grouping: Tragedy/Problem

4. Synopsis
In this play, Timon is a wealthy man who
constantly gives gifts to his friends. But
his downfall comes through his inability to
support his spending; he takes out loans
from his friends to pay for the very gifts
he gives them. Eventually he is forced to
mortgage all his holdings and becomes
bankrupt, and his so called friends
abandon him.

5. Conflicts
Person vs. Person is the Main Conflict in
the play:
Timon vs. Apemantus; Apemantus isn’t one
of Timon’s friends but attends his feasts
and banquets anyway, Apemantus constantly
scoffs at Timon’s friendliness, and it takes
Timon losing all his money and friends before
the two have something in common (Hating
Mankind) But even when they find common
ground Timon tells him to get lost.

6. Plot Structure
• This drama is one of the great tragedy themed plays by William
Shakespeare.
• Timon of Athens is a man who enjoys to please his friends and
he does this by lavishing gifts on them.
• His 'friends' rush to gain his favour.
• They buy him small gifts and he repays them with big gifts.
• He ignores the warnings about false friends from the
philosopher Apemantus and his extravagance catches up with him
in the end and he is faced with unpaid bills.
• His 'friends' ignore his requests for help.
• He sends invitations to the Athenians to a 'banquet' and uses
the occasion to berate them for being false and he then leaves
Athens.
• Timon then discovers gold and becomes rich once again and
befriends General Alcibiades who has also been treated badly by
the Athenians.
• He provides the money for the General to wage war against the

8. Timon at The Start of the
play
At the start of play Timon acts towards
everyone(except Apemantus) with the
utmost kindness, he offers them gifts,
frequently hosts huge banquets, his only
motivation is too make his false friends
happy. Timon seems to only have Flavius
as a real friend, but often He seems to
put the “false friends” wants above
Flavius’s.

9. Timon’s Character
development
Timon Character develops from the kind
natured Athenian, to a misanthropist
who practically hates everyone else in
the play, the major sign of the full
development is when Timon hosts a
banquet (intended for those who have
wronged him) instead of serving them
food he serves them lukewarm Rocks and
water, berates them, then splashes the
water over them before he leaves into
the wild, never to return to Athens
again.

10. At the End of the Play
After Timon left Athens he makes a crude home in a small
cave, through which he finds Gold, several of the false friends
such as the painter and the jeweller return, Timon sends them
away with little of the gold, the rest he gives to a General(to
subsidise his attack on Athens), and to Prostitutes(to spread
their venereal diseases), while marching towards Athens the
General reads a note.
"Here lies a wretched corpse of wretched soul bereft:
Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked caitiffs left!"
Here lie I, Timon, who alive, all living men did hate,
Pass by, and curse thy fill, but pass and stay not here thy gait."

11. Bibliography
Sources used to compile this
presentation
• Wikipedia- Timon Of Athens
• Spark notes- The Life of Timon of
Athens
• Shakespeare- The Life Of Timon Of
Athens

12. THE END