Gender and Sexual identity quotes Flashcards
“our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women’s are”
Orsino - stereotypes women
“shrill and sound, and all as semblative a women’s part”
Orsino - stereotypes women into having high voices and lips like Diana
“i do adore thee so, that danger shall seem sport, and i will go”
Antonio to Sebastian- Antonio expresses his love and challenges the norms of sexuality of the time
“he speaks very shrewishly, one would think his mothers milk were scarce out of him”
Malvolio about Cesario - suggests that Cesario demands so much it is as if he has barely stopped breastfeeding - this foreshadows Cesarios womanly nature
“you are the cruelest alive, if you will lead those genes to the grave and leave the world no copy”
Viola to Olivia- here we see Viola embrace her manly disguise and compliment Olivia as one man should
“let still the woman take an elder than herself, so she wears to him, so sways she level in her husbands heart”
Orsino to Viola (Cesario)- Orsino stereotypes and restricts women to a certain type -suggesting that women will mould themselves to their husbands
“for women are as roses, who’s fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour”
Orsino- stereotypical views of how women’s beauty will disappear almost as quickly as a mans desires will
“between boy and man”
Malvolio about Cesario - suggests he is neither a boy nor man- ironic as this suggests a Eunuch- who is neither gender- interesting observation of Malvolio
“alas our frailty is the cause not we”
Viola- blames women’s frailty on their ability to fall in love so quickly
“were i a woman”
Viola to Orsino- suggests irony and proleptic irony - audience is aware of the irony of her diction
