Sir Andrew

Question 1

What are some traits of Sir Andrew?

Answer 1

• coward
• drunkard
• wealthy
• stupid

Question 2

“As tall a man as any’s in Illyria”

Answer 2

Act 1 Scene 3
- simile

Question 3

“I am a great eater of beef”

Answer 3

Act 1 Scene 3
- pre modifier
- humourous for Elizabethan audience as it was believed beef dulled the brain
- Explains his dumb nature which is constantly made fun by the other characters
- Reinstates obliviousness

Question 4

“I was adored once too”

Answer 4

Act 2 Scene 3
- more dynamic and human

Question 5

“Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the counts servingman than she ever bestowed upon me”

Answer 5

Act 3 Scene 2
- envious, jealous , entitled
- trying to establish higher status
- complaining about Olivia spending more time with Cesario than him

Question 6

“Thy sworn enemy”

Answer 6

Act 3 Scene 4
- letter to Cesario
- melodramatic
- thinks letter has made him more manly

Question 7

“What is pourquoi?”

Answer 7

Act 1 Scene 3
- ironic, links back to how he knows so many languages

Question 8

“Thou art but a scurvy fellow”

Answer 8

Act 3 Scene 4
- written in his letter to Cesario
- thinks he’s being offensive
- scurvy is a deficiency from a lack of fruit and veg
- AO3: sailors often had scurvy. link to Viola’s arrival

Question 9

“Thy sworn enemy”

Answer 9

Act 3 Scene 4
- calls himself Cesario’s sworn enemy
- melodramatic
- thinks the letter has made him manly
- humourous to audience

Question 10

“I’ll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria”

Answer 10

Act 4 Scene 1
- wants to charge Sebastian for assault
- ironic because he would be the one charged for hitting first