Feste

Question 1

What are some traits of Feste?

Answer 1

• omniscient
• witty
• intelligent
• can sing about love unaffected because he’s the only one emotionally detached from the feeling

Question 2

“Well, God give them wisdom that have it”

Answer 2

Act 1 Scene 5
- intelligent people aren’t always wise

Question 3

“For what says Quinapalus?”

Answer 3

Act 1 Scene 5
- fake philosopher he created to sound wise

Question 4

“Would you have a love song, or a song of good life?”

Answer 4

Act 2 Scene 3
- believes love does not equal a good life
- the only character uninterested in love and not blinded by it

Question 5

“I take pleasure in singing, Sir”

Answer 5

Act 2 Scene 4
- twisted satisfaction
- humble, refuses money

Question 6

“A sentence is but a chervil glove”

Answer 6

Act 3 Scene 1
- reference to disguise: does he know?
- fine leather
- playing with words to fit purpose

Question 7

“Foolery, sir, does walk the orb like the sun

Answer 7

Act 3 Scene 1
- simile
- believes foolery is everywhere
- trusted to move between multiple households
- guides development in romance

Question 8

“My lady is within, sir”

Answer 8

Act 3 Scene 1
- seen through Viola’s disguise
- finds it funny and likes the chaos of it

Question 9

“Nothing that is so, is so”

Answer 9

Act 4 Scene 1
- parallel phrasing
- equivocation

Question 10

“Sir Topas”

Answer 10

Act 4 Scene 2
- dramatic irony
- topaz believe to cure madness

Question 11

“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool”

Answer 11

Act 3 Scene 1
- said by Viola
- suggest that to be a fool you must be wise
- AO3: Shakespearean fools are often wiser than all the other characters

Question 12

“Bonos dies, Sir Toby”

Answer 12

Act 4 Scene 2
- “good day”
- mocking Latin as a real priest would know Latin
- using language to add to deception

Question 13

“Peace in this prison!”

Answer 13

Act 4 Scene 2
- AO3: ‘insane’ people were locked up in dark rooms
- Toby has done this to Malvolio

Question 14

“What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl?”

Answer 14

Act 4 Scene 2
- Asking if he believes
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- offers religious education
- pseudo intellectual
- trying to ridicule Puritanism

Question 15

“For the rain it raineth every day”

Answer 15

Act 5 Scene 1
- despite the temporary happy ending, life is still full of sadness and death
- the play ending with its “lowest” character on stage is appropriate to the inversion of hierarchy associated with Twelfth Night festivals