Twelfth Night - Critical Quotations Flashcards

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ORSINO - Act 1, Scene 1 - “The appetite may sicken and so die”

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Chivalric lover, his love for Olivia is hurting him, he wants it to die

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ORSINO - Act 1, Scene 1 - “How will she love when the rich golden shaft hath killed the flock”

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Links to Cupid + Greek myth, theme of fate, Cupid’s arrow keeps missing Olivia

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VIOLA - Act 1, Scene 2 - “Conceal me what I am”

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Sets up for theme of disguise and illusion, Viola trusts the Captain

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VIOLA - Act 1, Scene 2 - “It may be worth thy pains, for I can sing and speak to him in many sorts of music”

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Link to Orsino’s opening lines, potential love between them, role of women, form of entertainment for men + to beautify them, love links to music

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MARIA - Act 1, Scene 3 - “Bring your hand to th’ buttery bar”

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Flirtatious + euphemistic, powerful female character

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ORSINO - Act 1, Scene 4 - “To thee the book even of my secret soul”

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Precise, poetic language when speaking to Viola, only talks to her in that way, foreshadows their future relationship

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VIOLA - Act 1, Scene 4 - “Who’er I woo, myself would be his wife”

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She is in love with Orsino, and there is nothing she can do about it - love triangle established

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VIOLA - Act 1, Scene 5 - “Between the elements of air and earth”

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Celestial imagery, agape love

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OLIVIA + FESTE - Act 1, Scene 5 - “Take the fool away” “Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady”

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Feste subverts authority by talking to someone of a higher status this way

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FESTE - Act 1, Scene 5 - “The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul being in heaven”

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Blunt joke, attempt to cheer Olivia up

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MALVOLIO + FESTE - Act 1, Scene 5 - “Unless you laugh and minster occasion to him, he is gagged”

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Personal attack on Feste, if they do not laugh at his jokes then he has nothing

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OLIVIA - Act 1, Scene 5 - “If it be a suit from the count, I am sick, or not at home. What you will to dismiss it”

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Malvolio fails at his task, Viola comes in and Olivia falls in love, Malvolio has very limited authority and cannot stop a servant from entering, love is inevitable and cannot be stopped, Malvolio cannot stop it from progressing

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VIOLA - Act 1, Scene 5 - “‘Tis with him in standing water between boy and man”

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Dramatic irony, tension of everyone finding out her true identity and seeing through her disguise

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VIOLA - Act 1, Scene 5 - “I am not that I play”

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Dramatic irony, disguise/misidentity, foreshadowing

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VIOLA + OLIVIA - Act 1, Scene 5 - “But you should pity me”

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Links to later in play - “I pity you”

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SEBASTIAN - Act 2, Scene 1 - “My stars shine darkly over me”

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Fate, links to fortuna

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SEBASTIAN - Act 2, Scene 1 - “She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more”

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Metaphor - crying over her death, irony - Viola is alive

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ANTONIO - Act 2, Scene 1 - “Let me be your servant” “I adore thee so”

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He worships Sebastian, he is so noble that Antonio is swept away by him

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VIOLA - Act 2, Scene 2 - “Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her”

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Comedic confusion, mistaken identity, realises that Olivia has fallen in love with her, so blames fortune

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VIOLA - Act 2, Scene 2 - “I am the man”

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Comedic, irony, her disguise is a trap into a different gender role