TWELFTH NIGHT QUOTES - CHARACTER - Orsino / Viola / Olivia / Feste- PT1
Viola / Cesario
Orsino
"If music be the food of love, play on. Gives me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die [Music resumes.]"
"Marble - breasted tyrant, still"
"I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, to spite a raven's heart within a dove.".
What love
"Surfeiting."
To much
The music is light heartened.
Uses hyperbole
Spirit of love is received like how the sea receives things.
"What country, friends, is this?"
Illyria
Viola is active and to the point.
"I'll do my best to woo your lady. [Aside] Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
Would want to marry Orsino if she wasn't pretending to be a man.
"Strife!" and "Wife." are rhyming couplets.
This recaps the comic scene/ resolution of the play/
Foreshadows the end of the play.
"Poor lady, she were better love a dream."
Impossible situations
"I:" and "t'unite"
Heroic couplets - this sums up the ending.
Fate or free will?
"My father had a daughter loved a man, As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
Riddle and complex language
A little thing would make me tell them how much I lack or a man.
She wants the revel herself
Dramatic Irony
Olivia
"O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio
So 'puffed up' with self importance
"Be not offended, dear Cesario."
First time Seb sees Olivia
Contrast
She wants to be seen as gentle
Feste
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"
"Better a witty fool and a foolish wit."
In the past, a person couldn't get divorce. This means that death is better than a bad marriage / divorce.
"How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward."
The instability of languge