12TH NIGHT: Feste A4&5

4.1

Feste thinks Seb’s Cesario, asks if he wants him to fetch Olivia

• Seb gives Feste money, thinking he’s vying for cash, and threatens to beat him up if he doesn’t go away

4.2

Feste disguises himself as the priest “Sir Topaz”, and pretends to be visiting Malvolio, then switches back to Feste and tells Malvolio that he’ll get him a pen and paper to write a love letter to Olivia

• puts on gown + funny voice, even though its dark

5.1

Orsino sends Feste to bring Olivia

• “worse for my friends” because his friends “praise and make an ass of him” while his enemies “tell me plainly that I am an ass”

  • Malvolio type of situation

• cons Orsino into giving him 2 coins (not the third)

Feste brings the letter, Olivia tells someone to get Malvolio

• Feste reads the letter like a madman, forcing Fabian to read it

“some are born great…. thrust upon them” — Feste repeats this to Malvolio

5.1 ending song

eerie

• “wind and the rain” — reminiscent of Jacques’s pastoral warnings

  • to live is to struggle

    • why this ending?