quotes Flashcards
“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
Orsino
-Excessive, over the top language
-iambic pentameter
-Idea of melancholy and madness deriving from love
-Performative, fickle love, Petrarchan lover
“So full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical” Orsino
-idea of “shapes” foreshadows the deception and disguises involved in love
“I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.”
Sir Andrew
-Believed in Shakespeare’s time that eating meat excessively caused foolishness
-Excessive indulgence in love can have the same effect
“I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues, that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but followed the arts!” Sir Andrew
-Sir Andrew doesn’t understand “pourquoi” and replies lamenting the fact he hasn’t spent time studying language or literature
-Idea of art and creativity as a way to woo someone, gestures and appearances
“It shall be inventoried…As, time: two lips, indifferent red; item; two grey eyes” Olivia
“poetic blazon” where speaker itemizes and examines different parts of the body
Idea of autonomy and possession
“Make me a willow cabin at your gate…” Cesario
-Simple imagery reveals sincerity and truth which contrasts Orsino’s excessive speech
-Viola, as a woman, understands the needs of a woman
“What is love? Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter: What’s to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty: Youth’s a stuff will not endure.” Feste
Love viewed as a youthful, fleeting and passionate game
contrasts with Orsino’s melancholic and serious view of love
“Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal” Feste
Feste calls on Saturn to protect Orsino, and to give him clothes that change color as he doesn’t know what he wants
makes fun of his performative and melancholic musings on love
“He is very well-favored and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother’s milk were scarce out of him” Malvolio
-Dramatic irony
-Notes the gender ambiguity of Cesario without realizing hes a woman
-writes off femininity as a product of youth
“My purpose, indeed, is a horse of that color” Maria
Deception and disguise used for harm, instead of good like Cesario
“Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm” Orsino
Capricious nature of love
“Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em” Malvolio
Triplet
Idea of rising in social standing in ones lifetime being mocked
“O world! how apt the poor are to be proud.”
Olivia suggests that cesario take advantage of her nobility, and that a pageboy should not be too proud to accept the advances of a noble
