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Gender Roles Played by Viola
Viola is my personal favorite character in The Twelfth Night. Not only is she trying to hide her identity ad stay alive, she is also trying to fight off a woman from loving her. That to me shows that she is one beautiful and skilled person. My hat goes to viola because I feel like for her to pretend to…
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class 4-29-13
Agenda Quiz 15 Plot/Sentence Questions Performance 3 Discussion of act 4 via blog posts Scene from Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night Quiz 15 Why is Feste confused when he meets Sebastian? To what request from Olivia does Sebastian agree? Where is Malvolio? Who pretends to be the priest Sir Topas? Name the character in act…
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The Element of Disguise Causes Confusion Amongst Characters
(From 4.1.5-10.) Feste – Well held out, I’faith! No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to you by my lady to bid you come speak with her, nor your name s not Mar Cersario, nor this is not my nose, neither. Nothing that is so is so. Sebastian…
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No Love for Antonio?
In Act IV of this play, the relationship between Sebastian and Antonio has become well more defined, yet complexes at the same time. When Olivia drags Sebastian away, she mistakes Sebastian as his twin sister, Viola. We know that Olivia is in love with Cesario (Viola’s disguise) and not Sebastian. When Sebastian is considering Olivia’s…
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Feste
As Feste torments the trapped Malvolio in Act IV Scene II, we get the sense that he is being too harsh. Though it was originally Maria and Sir Toby’s plan to seek revenge on Malvolio, Feste seems to go along with it just for his own entertainment. It wasn’t until Malvolio is already trapped in…
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Blog Post #2 – In Love? Or In Love With Being In Love?
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! It had a dying fall; O, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:…
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Twinning
It seems as though, in Act 4, Sebastian’s true colors come out, in that there are not many colors to be shown. This act, although mostly about Sebastian, barely has anything to do with Sebastian doing anything significant. Instead, it is his presence that causes a reaction by characters that have befriended “Cesario” or his…
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class 2-24-13
Agenda Orgasm and Death Quiz 13 Plot/Sentence Questions Synthesis and development of Monday’s discussion Discussion of Act 3 via Jazz’s blog post Scenes from the play Orgasm and Death Ben Jonson’s translation of a Roman poem by Petronius: Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport:…
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Antonio and Sebastian: Friends or More?
I kind of felt like maybe there were some deeper feelings between Antonio and Sebastian during the last Act, but I wasn’t quite sure of whether or not it was just good, manly friendship between them and one man truly wanting to look after another and make sure he was alright. However going into Act…
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class 4-22-13
Agenda Quiz 12 Plot/Sentence Questions Discussion of acts 1 -2 via blog posts Tone of play Quiz 12 1. Who is Sebastian? 2. Who is Antonio? 3. Who does Malvolio believe the letter he has found is from? 4. Who actually wrote the letter? 5. Name something Malvolio “learns” from the letter. Bonus 1: name…