Appearance vs reality

Question 1

omniciant feste - love of orsino and violoa

Answer 1

feste in scene 4 act 2, feste sings a song that depicts unrequited love. Furthermore, in the song, there is a reflection upon the innocence of love, presenting the unrequired lover as a victim in pure white clothes. This seems to apply more to Viola’s state than Orsino’s

Question 2

Feste and orsino

Answer 2

“for thy mind is opal”- feste calls Orsino changeable and capricious.

Question 3

the line from Burger’s “lenore”

Other boundaries that are crossed?

Answer 3

literary allusion and foreshadowing. a poem about a woman carried away by a ghostrider disguised as her dead lover, but it turns out to be the grim reaper.
- themes of trickery i.e devil trickery, temptation (adam and eve) and struggle between good and evil (god and the devil). perhaps the lover from burgers lenore was lured by lust?
- also reflects stoicism and reserved sttitudes of victorian england - sexual restraint for e.g.

comparing harker to a female character and removing harkers’ power imasculates him. also foreshadowing the 3 vampire women that persue him sexually and the reality of their corpereal condition