12th Night : Viola Flashcards
Love as a cause of suffering
“Yet a barful strife!…”
“Who’er I woo, myself would be his wife.”
- Viola, Act 1 Scene 4
Disguise and Deception
“I am not…”
“that I play.”
- Viola, Act 1 Scene 5
Love as a cause of suffering
“My state is desperate for…”
“my master’s love.”
- Viola Act 2, Scene 2
Disguise and Deception + Love as a cause of suffering
“O Time! Thou must untangle this not I…”
“it is too hard a knot for me t’untie.”
- Act 2, Scene 2
Love + desire (foolishness)
“Say that some lady, as perhaps there is…”
“hath for your love as great a pang of heart, as you have Olivia.”
- Viola, Act 2, Scene 4
Love as a cause of suffering
“She sat like patience on a monument…”
“smiling at grief. Was that not love indeed? We men may say more, swear more, but indeed our shows are more than will, for still we prove much in our vows but little in our love”.
- Viola Act 2, Scene 4
Love as a cause of suffering
“I am all the daughters of my father’s house…”
“and all the brothers too.”
- Viola Act 2, Scene 4
Disguise and Deception
“Disguise I see thou art…”
“a wickedness.”
- Viola Act 2, Scene 2
Disguise and Deception
“Pray God defend me. A little thing…”
“would make me tell them how much I lack of a man.”
- Act 3, Scene 4
Illyria + the supernatural
“Oh, if it prove…”
“tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love.”
- Viola, Act 3, Scene 4
Love + Desire (foolishness)
“My father had a daughter loved a man…”
“as it might be, perhaps, were I woman, I should your lordship.”
- Viola, Act 2, Scene 4
Disguise and Deception + Love and desire
“Disguise is necessary for…”
“romance to blossom.”
Northop Fyre
Love and Desire (homosexuality and heterosexuality)
“Viola as a woman is ultimately shown to be a…”
“natural object of Orsino’s affection, which resolves all earlier ambiguity in the play.”
Stephen Greenblatt.
Love as a cause of suffering
“And I…”
“poor monster”.
- Viola Act 2, Scene 2
Love and desire - Platonic love
“An apple…”
“cleft in two is not more twin than these two creatures.”
- Antonio 5,1
Platonic theory
