12th Night : Sebastian Flashcards
Love as a cause of suffering - Platonic love
“My stars shine darkly over me…”
“the malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.”
- Sebastian 2,1
Love as a cause of suffering - Platonic love
“If you will not undo what you have done…”
“that is kill whom you have recovered, desire it not.”
- Sebastian 2,1
Wants to be dead because he believes Viola is
Love and desire - Homosexual desire
“My kind Antonio…”
“I can no other answer make but thanks.”
- Sebastian, 3,3
Also emphasises Antonio’s valiance
Sebastian’s masculinity / nobility
“I prithee…”
“vent thy folly somewhere else.”
- Sebastian, 4,1
* 4,1 mirror scene to 3,1 shows similarities / differences between twins
Sebastian’s masculinity / nobility
“I prithee, foolish greek, depart from me…”
“there’s money for thee. If you tarry longer I shall give worse payment.”
- Sebastian 4,1
Madness
“Are all the people…”
“mad?”
- Sebastian Act 4,1
Madness
“What relish is this? How runs the stream?
Or I am mad or else this is a dream…”
“Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep: If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep.”
- Sebastian 4,1
Madness
“This is the air, that is the glorious sun…”
“[…] yet ‘tis not madness.”
- Sebastian 4,3
Madness ( + love and desire)
“Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune…”
“so far exceed all instance, all discourse, that I am ready to distrust mine eyes.”
- Sebastian 4,3
Madness
“my reason that persaudes me to any other trust…”
“but that I am mad.”
- Sebastian 4,3
Sebastian’s masculinity / nobility
“I am sorry, madam, I have…”
“hurt your kinsman.”
- Sebastian 5,1
Love and desire - homosexual desire
“Antonio, O my dear Antonio…”
“how have the hours racked and tortured me since I lost thee.”
- Sebastian 5,1
Love and desire - platonic love
“Were you a woman, as the rest goes even…”
“I should my tears let fall upon your cheek and say, ‘thrice welcomed, drowned Viola.”
- Sebastian 5,1
