ESSAY PLAN SUMMARIES Flashcards
explore how Shakespeare presents communication and misunderstanding in Twelfth Night. In your answer, you must consider relevant contextual factors.
PARA 1- LETTERS AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION AS A SOURCE OF MISUNDERSTANDING
-marias trick on Malvolio causes misunderstanding by interfering with ridgid societal hierarchies to create comic relief
Context: causes malvolio’s abandonment of puritanism (shows fear of puritanism) , goes against sumptury laws, shows fear of rising merchant class
PARA 2- DISGUISE CAUSING MISCOMMUNICATION OF VERBAL SPEECH, COMPLICATING MISTAKEN IDENTITY
-viola’s disguise causes miscommunication, restricts her ability to experess her true feelings for orsino
-expression of love for orsino in her speeches to Olivia causes more confusion
PARA 3- ROLE OF INTERMEDIATERIES/ SERVANTS IN DISTORTING COMMUNICATION
-feste reveals follies of others by twisting language and speech
Context: role of fool
