Act 5 Scene 1 Flashcards
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“My love without retention…”
“My love without retention, or restraint,
All his in dedication. For his sake,
Did I expose myself, pure for his love.”
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“I’ll sacrifice…”
“I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love”
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“Then he’s a rogue…”
“Then he’s a rogue, and a passy-measures pavin. I hate a drunken rogue”
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“One face, one voice…”
“One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons -
A natural perspective, that is and is not!”
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“How have you made…”
“How have you made division of yourself?
An apple ceft in two is not more twin
than these two creatures”
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“Given your drunken…”
“Give your drunken cousin rule over me”
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“The madly…”
“The madly used Malvolio”
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“most not…”
“most notoriously abused”
What mix of techniques does Shakespeare write with in this scene?
skilful mix of prose and blank verse
How do the characters express their highly charged emotions over these serial revelations?
in frequent references to madness and to witchcraft
What last twist remains unresolved at the end of the play?
Malvolio’s promise for revenge on the ‘whole pack’
What is this long scene structure around?
flurry of declarations and revelations
short and concentrated exchanged between the various true and false pairings
Does Shakespeare’s writing always show love?
While the spotlight of emotional intensity pinpoints different moments and contributions, all of these are brought together by love
What is Orsino’s love close to?
hate as he articulates it primarily as a threat to Olivia
“Him I will tear out of that cruel eye”
By what is the imaginative reality of Illyria permeated by? And how does Shakespeare achieve this?
the everyday reality of money
there are continual reminders of the need to pay bills and settle accounts
Give examples of where money is deemed the ruler:
- Sir Toby refuses to ‘confine’ himself but money is the constraint which misrule cannot avoid
- Malvolio’s role as steward is to ensure economy and balance the books
- Feste is paid for his fooling and uses his wit to beg for money
What does all the play’s revelry take place against (Feste’s comment)?
“pleasure will be paid, one time or another”
in other words, pleasure in youth may be paid for with suffering in old age
How is the ‘happy ending’ precarious?
Viola states twice that her women’s clothes are with the Captain, whom is being held by Malvolio ‘upon some action’
the happy ending is therefore, to some extent, dependent on the alienated steward (Malvolio)
What is it important to recognise about the way Shakespeare used suspended resolution?
it created endings which mix light and dark elements
Who is left out in the metaphorical cold by the ‘happy ending’?
Sir Andrew had nothing to show for his expensive stay in Olivia’s household
Antonio is soon forgotten when Sebastian is reunited with Viola
Feste is still singing his own mournful songs
Why would one interpret that even the lovers may have been hastily paired off?
Orsino’s sudden proposal to his former page
Olivia’s silent acceptance of her mystery husband
suggests an ending which owes more to dramatic convention than to emotional truth
What did Direction Michael Pennington note about the supposedly ‘happy ending’?
that the final marriages ‘have something perfunctory about them as if the fantastic contortions of the plot had made the characters unto puppets’
What continues the homoerotic tinge of the relationship between Orsino and Cesario?
that we never see Viola back in her own clothes
How does Orsino refer to to the twins’ physical presence?
as a paradox of numbers ‘one’, ‘two’
and words, ‘is and is not’
What does Orsino’s phrase ‘is and is not’ recall?
many similar riddling variations on the verb ‘to be’:
Feste’s opposition assertion as Sir Topas, ‘That that is, is’
‘Nothing that is so, is so’
What does the riddling of the verb ‘to be’ have an effect on?
blurring the boundaries between reality and illusion
questions the nature of self
opens up the possibilities of change and renewal
