twelfth Night quotes

Q1: love + tragicomic form

“If music be the food of love, play on” - Orsino (metaphor, hyperbole)

Q2: love + tragicomic form

“The more fool Madonna…” - Feste (irony and satire)

Q3: love + tragicomic form

“Nor wit no reason can my passion hide!” - Olivia antithesis (wit/ reason vs passion) falling in love with Cesario/Viola

Critic: Garber (2008) for everything

“Orsino’s initial passion, although he claims it is for Olivia, is rather for the spectacle of himself in love” diminished audience empathy for his disingenuous excess

Disguise, Deceprion + empathy - Q1

“Conceal me what I am”- Viola (imperative+concealment motif)

Disguise, deception + empathy Q2

“Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness” - Viola (personification + moral imagery)

Disguise, deception + empathy - Q3

“I am not what I am” - Viola (paradox + dramatic irony)

Madness + Folly Q1

“Sick of self love… distempered appetite” - Malvolio (metaphor + gustatory imagery)

Madness + Folly Q2

“Yellow stockings, cross-gartered” - (costuming + visual comedy parody)

Madness + Folly Q3

“They have laid me here in hideous darkness”- imagery and metaphor of imprisonment