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Question 1

identity

Answer 1

• Andrew + feste mixes up Sebastian and Cesario: ‘are all people mad’
• duke mixes up viola and Cesario: ‘he’
  -Olivia: ‘love sought is good but given unsought is better’

Question 2

gender/attraction

Answer 2

• Olivia attracted to Cesario
  -Antonio attracted to Sebastian: ‘that for his love dares yet do more’
  -cesario of too woo Olivia for the duke:’all is semblative a woman’s part’
  -duke attracted to viola: ‘he’
  -21st century audience more aware of issues-ambiguity- accentuated by disguise

Question 3

appearance/reality

Answer 3

• viola disguised as Cesario: ‘disguise, I see shout art a wickedness’
  -viola maintaining the mail persona, acting as a courtier: viola responds ‘that you do think you are not what you are’, then Olivia responds ‘if I think so, I think the same of you’
  -Antonio confronting viola, seen as declaration of love in the 21st century
  -Maria protecting her ladies name and protecting her love: ‘ peace, you rogue, no more o’ that’

Question 4

disguise

Answer 4

• viola disguised as Cesario: ‘disguise, I see shout art a wickedness’, ‘o time, thou must untangle this not I’
  -joke for audience, male actor playing a female character disguised as a man
  -viola tries to be a man in Illyria, men would protect their honour with swords, viola never fenced
  -illyria was dangerous so viola found comfort in pretending to be her older brother, then find this to cause even more danger
  -orsinos exaggerated love for Olivia: ‘’

Question 5

love

Answer 5

• Orsino connects love with music: ‘’
  -belief that music move the soul to baser passions and deeds, enffeminised men and provoked idleness and love
• love is painful, the effect of music doesn’t depend on music but the nature of the person.
  -Olivia: ‘love sought is good but given unsought is better’
  -in song sang by feste which tells olivias story: ‘What is love? ’Tis not hereafter’

Question 6

loss

Answer 6

-Antonio’ love for Sebastian displaced by heterosexual marriage: ‘that for his love dares yet do more’
-malvolio desire for upward mobility with Olivia tormented and punished, leaving uncomedic spirit’ : midsummer madness’
-sir Andrew leaves empty handed: ‘I was adored once too’

Question 7

time

Answer 7

• feste sings ‘time may not be kind’ so live life
• viola disguised as Cesario: ‘o time, thou must untangle this not I’
  -orsinos bad timing ‘’

Question 8

ambition

Answer 8

-malvolio is ambitious for Olivia: ‘tell me why’, no relevant answer
-Olivia: ‘love sought is good but given unsought is better’

Question 9

madness

Answer 9

-Olivia connects malvolios behaviour to ‘midsummer madness’, the sun and heat is causing this
-Sebastian struggles to convince that he and Olivia aren’t mad: ‘if it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!’
-christianity was the strongest religion, ‘mad’ people were possessed by the devil or illness
-toby ended the prank: ‘I would we were well rid of this knavery’

Question 10

social hierarchy

Answer 10

• malvolio is punished: ‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em’
  -Sir Toby is in decline, sir Andrew is no longer useful to him so is called an ‘ass-head’
  -feste: ‘better a witty fool than a foolish wit’

Question 11

mortality

Answer 11

-life is short
-violas brother died
-olivias brother and father
-women left without men in the time wasn’t right and was dangerous

Question 12

excess

Answer 12

-orsinos exaggerated romantic speeches ‘’
-sir toys drinking and singing: Feste says such ‘pleasures’ will be ‘paid’ for in the long term
-fabian: ‘let me be boiled to death with melacholy’