Olivia Flashcards
What are some traits of Olivia?
- strong emotional reactions
- no male guidance
- wealthy
- beautiful
- lovesick
What boundaries does Olivia cross?
- gender
- emotional
- class
- social
- sanity vs insanity
“Like a cloistress she will veiled walk”
Act 1 Scene 1
- simile
- living like a nun for at least 7 years
“That tyrannous heart can think”
Act 3 Scene 1
- pre modifier
- blaming Cesario for ‘his’ rejection of Olivia’s unwanted advances
“That’s a degree to love”
Act 3 Scene 1
- abstract noun
- desperation, interprets all ‘his’ words as a sign of love
- desperate for love
“So let me hear you speak”
Act 3 Scene 1
- dominations conversation
- breaking gender stereotypes
- demanding answer
“I would you were as I would have you be”
Act 3 Scene 1
- accepts ‘him’ for ‘him’
- prepared to cross social boundary
- egotistical, wishes Cesario was noble and wealthy
- desperate hopelessness
“I love thee so that maugre all thy pride”
Act 3 Scene 1
- verb
- love has no bounds, sees beyond class
“I am as mad as he of sad and merry madness equal be”
Act 3 Scene 4
- alliteration
- questioning sanity
- simile
“Be not offended, dear Cesario”
Act 4 Scene 1
- term of endearment
- fuelled by passion
- rage coming from a place of love
- crosses gender boundary, salvation
“Hast thou forgotten thyself”
Act 5 Scene 1
- ironic allusion to mistaken identity
“Have you not set mine honour at the stake”
Act 3 Scene 1
- risking her reputation by liking Cesario
- blaming ‘Cesario’ for ‘his’ rejection of her unwanted advances
“That tyrannous heart can think?”
Act 3 Scene 1
- pre modifier suggests cruelty, Viola is abusing her
“That’s a degree to love”
Act 3 Scene 1
- desperate for Cesario’s love
- mirror Orsino’s desperation for Olivia
- interprets all of Cesario’s words as a sign of love
“Love sought, is good; but given unsought, is better”
Act 3 Scene 1
- alluding to her romantic desires
- AO3: would be shocking to an Elizabethan audience because virginity was seen as precious
