TwelfthNight Love

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1. I would like you to guess which character says the quote and whether the love is true or not. So who says this?
2. O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purged the air of pestilence!-- That instant was I turn'd into a hart; And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E'er since pursue me.
3. Duke Orsino Act 1 Sc1 False! Horrid imagery to describe his “beloved” and description of love’s effect; it is made to sound like an affliction an uncontrollable disease, or as a hunter, mentions eyes and sight which suggests surface affection not real Language features include imagery, alliteration, classical allusion and simile
4. If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant
5. Antonio Act 2 Sc? Grandiose language True! He proves that later in the play, but do we think its love or strong friendships as were typical in the 1600s?
6. Even so quickly may one catch the plague? Methinks I feel this youth’s perfections . . . To creep in at mine eyes
7. Olivia Act 1 Sc5 False! There are echoes with Orsino’s language, love is referred to as a disease here, also another reference to eyes suggesting the affection is based on looks rather than anything deeper. Both also in many of their speeches use hyperbole; this echoes the courtly love and is Shakespeare mocking it. Look out for rhetorical questions!
8. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
9. Viola act 2 scene 4 True! She evokes the image of never ending love; patient and unselfish. It is once again quite dramatic language but that makes it all the more surprising coming from the usually pragmatic viola
10. Come hither boy: if ever thou shalt love In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved.
11. Duke Orsino Act 2 sc 4 False again! He is unstaid and skittish in love too, however much he protests! He likes the idea of being a lover and so proclaims himself to be one Unstaid and constant, sweet pangs – nice examples of our old friend antithesis This restlessness is displayed in his language; first it's music, then it's the sea, then the hunt, then brotherly love. It's almost as if he's trying to keep his love alive by all these stimuli
12. A good example of Viola vs Orsino’s language is Cesario’s improvised ‘make me a willow cabin at your gate’ speech. It contrasts to the hyperbolic, stereotyped and rehearsed declarations of love made by Cesario at the request of Orsino ‘most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty.’ These declarations are contrived and empty especially in light of the fact that they are made whilst Olivia has her face veiled! Their first interchange is full of wordplay, Cesario speaks with Olivia-- not to her or about her which i think is the attraction for her.