Important Quotations Twelfth Night

Question 1

At the beginning of chapter one what line does Orsino use to imply his love for Olivia?

Answer 1

“O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purged the air of Pestilence!” -she purified the air

Question 2

How does valentine describe her mourning in act one?

Answer 2

“Like a cloistress(nun), she will veiled walk” Olivia’s excessive mourning that she wants everyone to know about

Question 3

Act 1 scene two what does viola say when she changes her identity

Answer 3

“Conceal me for what I am, and be my aid/ For such disguise as haply shall become/The form of my intent”

Question 4

How does Sir Toby ‘big up’ Aguecheek to Maria in Act 1 scene 3?

Answer 4

“He has three thousand ducats a year….and speaks three or four languages” -excess & create comedy when audience see what he’s actually like

Question 5

Toby’s Drinking excess in Act 1 scene 3

Answer 5

“I’ll drink as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in illyria”

Question 6

How does Sir Andrew explain his wit?

Answer 6

“I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man: but I am a great eater of beef and I believe that does hard my wit” -stupidity

Question 7

What does orsino say about Viola on their meeting?

Answer 7

1 “Diana’s lip is not more smooth and dubious”
2 thy small pipe is as the maidens organ, shrill and sound
3 all is semblative of a woman’s part

Dramatic irony

Question 8

The first sign viola shows her love for Orsino

Answer 8

Aside

“Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.”

Question 9

What does Olivia say to Malvolio after he assaults feste?

Answer 9

“Oh, you are sick of self love, Malvolio”

Question 10

What does Viola say to woo Olivia?

Answer 10

“Make me a willow at your cabin” viola knows how to woo, Orsino would not have said this

Question 11

How does olivia first describe her love for Viola?

Answer 11

“Even so quickly may one catch the plague? Methinks I feel this youths perfections” - love has a negative impact

Question 12

How does Antonio express his love for Sebastian?

Answer 12

“If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant”

“I adore thee so” -homosexual undertones (carnival behaviour)

Question 13

What does viola say when she finds out olivia loves her?

Answer 13

“Poor lady she had better love a dream” “in woman’s waxen hearts to set their forms” women are Malleable. “O time! Thou must untangle this, not I; it is too hard a knot for me to untie!”

Question 14

How does Malvolio tell Toby to shut up?

Answer 14

“ my masters are you mad? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?”

Question 15

How does Maria explain Malvolio self obsession?

Answer 15

“As he thinks, with excellencies, that is his grounds of faith that all look on him love”

Question 16

How does viola suggest she likes Orsino?

Answer 16

He asks “what kind of woman is’t” and she replies “of your complexion” although he does not understand she also says “we’re I a woman I should your lordship”

Question 17

How does Malvolio represent the theme of ethos (erotic love)in the beginning of subplot?

Answer 17

“This is my very lady’s hand these be her vet C’s, her U’s and her T’s and this makes she her great P’s” -double entendre two meanings of p

Question 18

What does Malvolio say after he reads the letter?

Answer 18

“I will be proud… I will baffle sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintances” -desire to move up
“My lady loves me”

Question 19

How does Olivia show her desperation for Viola?

Answer 19

“I love thee so…not wit nor reason can my passion hide”

“Yet come again” even though he says he does not love her and he has “one heat, one bosom and one truth… save I alone”

“It’s my picture; refuse it not”

Question 20

Quotation that shows Malvolios religion is an act

Answer 20

“ to bed! At, sweet-heat, I’ll come to thee”

Question 21

What does Maria say about malvolios maddness?

Answer 21

“Ay you speak ill of the devil”

Question 22

How does Toby falsely describe Andrew to viola?

Answer 22

“Why man, he is a very devil”
“Thy assailant is quick, skilful and deadly”
“Satisfaction can be none but the pangs of death”

Question 23

Feste’s most important line

Answer 23

“Nothing that is so is so”

Question 24

Quotes to describe Malvolios torture

Answer 24

“There was never a man this abused”

“I am not mad sir Topaz” - repetition of this phrase shows desperation

Question 25

How does Viola describe Feste?

Answer 25

“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;and to do that well craves a kind of wit” he is clever with wordplay

Question 26

How does Antonio admit that he saved Sebastian to Viola?

Answer 26

“This youth that you see here I snatched one half out of the jaws of death” Antonio thinks Viola is Sebastian gender confusion Act 4 scene 5

Question 27

What does viola say when she finds out her brother is alive?

Answer 27

“In favour of my brother, and he went sill in this fashion, colour, ornament, For him I imitate” she realises she fashions her disguise on him because she misses him

Question 28

How does Sebastian react to Olivia’s love?

Answer 28

“If it be Thus to dream, still let me sleep!”

Question 29

How does feste try to make Malvolio think he is mad?

Answer 29

When Malvolio says he’s in a dark room feste day “why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes” and makes him question his beliefs on Pythagoras who thinks the soul migrates which Malvolio disagrees due to religion. Feste says he shall “remain thou still in darkness” until he changes his mind

Question 30

Why does sir Toby back out?

Answer 30

“I am now is so far offence with my niece that I cannot Persue with any safety in this “

Question 31

What does Sebastian say in his soliloquy?

Answer 31

He repeats the term mad “yet tis not madness” “or else this lady’s mad” contrast to previous scene of real madness this madness is good= dramatic relief

Question 32

When the secrets are revealed

Answer 32

“One face, one voice, one habit and two persons” Orsino

“An apple cleft in two is not more twin than these two creature”

Question 33

When the twins reunite

Answer 33

“ I should let my fall upon your cheek and say ‘Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!’” Seb
“My father had a mole upon his brow” “and so had mine”

Question 34

How does olivia react when she discovers Malvolio has been mistreated?

Answer 34

“Thou shalt be both panintiff and the judge of thine own cause” gives him the power to get revenge

“He hath been most notoriously abused”

Question 35

Festes second biggest line

Answer 35

“ some are born great…some He greatness thrust upon them” quotes Malvolio he is watching everyone

“THUS THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME BRINGS IN HIS REVENGES” - mans life goes around in a circle= pattern of live -audience understand

Question 36

Orsino asks Viola to marry him

Answer 36

“Orsinos mistress and his fancy queen”