1. Characters

• Duke/Count Orsino

  • Wants Olivia

  • Impressed that she loved her brother so much

• Olivia

  • She wants to be left alone to mourn her brother for seven years

• Curio

• Valentine

  • He brought the message that Olivia didn’t want to see Orsino

• Viola

  • She wants to find her brother

• Sea Captain

• Sebastian

2. So far in the play, love is portrayed as solid and one-sided. Orsino compares love to music and food. He is lustful. Curio says that Orsino’s love is about the chase. Olivia loves her brother. She has been mourning her brother for seven years. The play portrays love as unpleasant.

3. Viola is saying that the captain is trustworthy. He is a good man.

4. The themes that are coming up are deceiving and loss.

5. Viola is looking for more freedom and a job that requires her to be a man. She would be safer if she were a man.

6. A shipwreck may metaphorise a near-death experience and a fresh start.

1. Toby is a drunk, and he comes home late.

2. Toby brings Andrew because Toby wants her to woo Olivia.

3. Andrew thinks Toby is saying the maid's name is “Acaust”. Toby wants Andrew to take advantage of Olivia.

4. Cissaro is Viola.

5. Orseno has been closer to Ciassaro since Valentine said this.

6. Orseno asks Ciassaro to tell Olivia that he loves her.

7. Orseno thinks that Ciassaro will be good at wooing Olivia for him since he is feminine and does not pass.

8. Viola wants to marry Orseno.

9. Puns and disguises don’t say exactly what they mean.

10. This is a World where people are descriptive.

1. The clown is the fool. He calls Oliva the fool and is a funny man.

2. The clown tries to prove that Olivia is a fool. He says that she is a fool for mourning a man in Hell. 

3. Olivia criticises Malvolio for being selfish.

4. Cesario is waiting at Olivia’s gate.

5. Sir Toby is drunk when he sees Olivia.

6. The fool says that the drunk is a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. He describes it this way to show that these are not his traits. 

7. The stranger says he will plant his feet on the ground until Olivia allows him to see her.

8. Malvolo says that the stranger is a teenager. This statement is interesting because Malvolo admits that the stranger has feminine traits.

9. Cesario wrote the speech because the duke is not romantic. He did not make anything since he seemed to be well-versed.

10. What is ironic about Viola’s line is that she is not just not the Duke but also not Cesario. The audience knows that Viola is a girl. This scenario is dramatic irony.

11. Viola says that Orseno is in love with Olivia. Viola says that Olivia is pretty.

12. Olivia says she will leave a list when she dies instead of children.

13. Viola says that she would scream out her name if she was in love with Olivia.

14. Olivia is saying that she is in love with Cesario.

15. Olivia admits that she has a crush on Cesario.

16. It suggests that love is a bad thing that is contagious.

17. Malvolio says that Cesario is, “Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before ‘t is with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think he’s mother’s milk were scarce out of him,” Malvoilo is saying that Cesario must have been malnourished as a child and, therefore, doesn’t have enough nourishment to produce a lot of testosterone. Olivia says, “Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee fivie-fold blazon: not too fast: soft, soft!” She thinks that Cesario is very handsome.

1. Sebastian is alive. The audience knowing that he is alive is dramatic irony.

2. Sebastian thinks that Viola is dead.

3. Antonio is in love with Sebastian.

4. Sebastian is planning to go to Orsino.

5. Antonio is hesitant to follow Sebastian because he has many enemies where Orsino is. Antonio still follows Sebastian because he is in love with him.

6. Viola is surprised when Malvolio gives her the ring.

7. Viola realises that Olivia is in love with her.

8. Viola feels terrible for Olivia because she is in love with a fake person.

9. The fool’s piece is from the perspective of someone longing for their lover.

10. Maria warns that Olivia will be mad.

11. Malvoilo wants them to write a love letter to Orsino. He is friendly to them.

12. Maria plans to trick Malvoilo by giving him a letter that looks like Olivia wrote it.

13. Malvolio is rude to the servents so they do not like them.

14. Maria plans to write a letter to Orsino to trick him into thinking Oliva is in love with him.

15. Sir Toby thinks Maria is brilliant.

16. Maria is a maid. Malvoilo is a messenger. Sir Toby is Olivia’s uncle. Andrew is a fool.

17. The servants communicate with the rich.

18. Shakespeare suggests that people are more likely to be bullied if there is a group.

1. Duke warns Cisarro that one should not be with someone too similar in appearance.

2. Viola talks about her father’s daughter

3. Orsino admits that:

Too old, by heaven: let still the woman take

An elder than herself; so wears she to him,

So sways she level in her husband’s heart:

For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,

More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, 

Than women’s are

4. The view of love suggested by the fool’s song is one that believes that love is the cause of a lonely death.

5. Orsino says:

Then let they love be younger than thyself,

Or thy affection cannot hold the bend;

For women are as roses, whose fair flower

being once display’d, doth fall that very hour.

6. Orsino said that women should love people younger than themselves but that they should love older people.

7. Viola says, “I am all the daughters of my father’s house, / And all the brothers too: and yet I know not. / Sir, shall I to this lady.”

8. Viola, being in love with Orsino while he is in love with Olivia, says that people chase others who love people other than them. It states that the reason people fall in love is looks. Love makes people chase dreams which may or may not come true.

9. Maria tells the others to watch as Malvolio reads the fake love letter.

10. What is suggested by Malvolio’s statement is that he thinks Maria is interested in him.

11. Malvolio is daydreaming about Maria before he picks up the letter.

12. Malvolio convinces himself that the letter is for him since he thinks everyone loves him.

13. Maria tells Malvolio to wear yellow stockings and cross-garters.

14. These items will make Malvolio look stupid since he thinks he is wearing them for Olivia.

15. Malvolio’s subplot helps support the idea that self-love is in vain.

16. The audience is part of the prank since they do not tell Malvolio that the letter is fake.

17. This statement is true since there is more than one path to greatness. Greatness looks different to everyone, so how people achieve it will vary.