Maria

Question 1

What are some traits of Maria?

Answer 1

• clever
• loyal
• sharp tongued
• vengeful
• cruel
• humourous

Question 2

What boundaries does Maria cross?

Answer 2

• gender
• religion
• class
• status

Question 3

“Tell me where thou hast been”

Answer 3

Act 1 Scene 5
- imperative
- strong and demanding

Question 4

“Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight”

Answer 4

Act 2 Scene 3
- pre modifier
- female dominance
- speaking out against people above her class

Question 5

“Go shake your ears”

Answer 5

Act 2 Scene 3
- exclamatory
- going against societal norms
- Elizabethan familiar collocation, common insult of donkey ears

Question 6

“I could marry this wench for this device”

Answer 6

Act 2 Scene 5
- said by Sir Toby
- her intelligence is attractive

Question 7

“He is sure possessed, madam”

Answer 7

Act 3 Scene 4
- a very serious accusation
- cruel
- AO3: beliefs about madness

Question 8

“Yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen”

Answer 8

Act 3 Scene 2
- derogatory slur
- suggests Malvolio cannot be Christian if he is so easily fooled by the letter: Christian salvation depends on accurate readings
- a heathen is someone who doesn’t follow religious value

Question 9

“I have dogged him like his murderer”

Answer 9

Act 3 Scene 2
- simile
- determined to put Malvolio in his place and wants to remove his arrogance

Question 10

“He is sure possessed, madam”

Answer 10

Act 3 Scene 4
- reinforcing joke of Malvolio by deceiving Olivia
- verb ‘possessed’
- vocative
- mocking Puritanism (crossing religious boundaries)