Feste Flashcards
What are some traits of Feste?
- omniscient
- witty
- intelligent
- can sing about love unaffected because he’s the only one emotionally detached from the feeling
“Well, God give them wisdom that have it”
Act 1 Scene 5
- intelligent people aren’t always wise
“For what says Quinapalus?”
Act 1 Scene 5
- fake philosopher he created to sound wise
“Would you have a love song, or a song of good life?”
Act 2 Scene 3
- believes love does not equal a good life
- the only character uninterested in love and not blinded by it
“I take pleasure in singing, Sir”
Act 2 Scene 4
- twisted satisfaction
- humble, refuses money
“A sentence is but a chervil glove”
Act 3 Scene 1
- reference to disguise: does he know?
- fine leather
- playing with words to fit purpose
“Foolery, sir, does walk the orb like the sun
Act 3 Scene 1
- simile
- believes foolery is everywhere
- trusted to move between multiple households
- guides development in romance
“My lady is within, sir”
Act 3 Scene 1
- seen through Viola’s disguise
- finds it funny and likes the chaos of it
“Nothing that is so, is so”
Act 4 Scene 1
- parallel phrasing
- equivocation
“Sir Topas”
Act 4 Scene 2
- dramatic irony
- topaz believe to cure madness
“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool”
Act 3 Scene 1
- said by Viola
- suggest that to be a fool you must be wise
- AO3: Shakespearean fools are often wiser than all the other characters
“Bonos dies, Sir Toby”
Act 4 Scene 2
- “good day”
- mocking Latin as a real priest would know Latin
- using language to add to deception
“Peace in this prison!”
Act 4 Scene 2
- AO3: ‘insane’ people were locked up in dark rooms
- Toby has done this to Malvolio
“What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl?”
Act 4 Scene 2
- Asking if he believes
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- offers religious education
- pseudo intellectual
- trying to ridicule Puritanism
“For the rain it raineth every day”
Act 5 Scene 1
- despite the temporary happy ending, life is still full of sadness and death
- the play ending with its “lowest” character on stage is appropriate to the inversion of hierarchy associated with Twelfth Night festivals
