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Theme and analysis of twelfth night
Character of Olivia in Twelfth Night
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Leading up to the passage, Feste approached Sebastian, who was confused on why Feste was addressing him in a way as if Feste knew him. Bothered, Sebastian told him "I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else. Thou know’st not me" (4.1.10-11). Hearing this, Feste became unhappy by Sebastian's extravagant vocabulary, since Sebastian's “Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow. Let me be clear of thee” speech made it seem as if he was superior to Feste. Feste imitated Sebastian's tone by asking Sebastian, "I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness," and mocking his use of the word "vent" (IV.i.14). As if Sebastian’ day could not get any worse, Sir Andrew, mad at Cesario for being the love of Olivia’s life, mistook him for Cesario and stroke him out of anger; Sebastian responded by returning the strike and asking “are all the people mad?” (4.1.27). Feste proclaimed that he will tell Olivia everything that happened and that she was not going to be happy when she finds out that her lover had disputed with Sir Toby and with Sir Andrew.
In the passage from the play “Saint Joan,” George Bernard Shaw utilizes a variety of rhetorical strategies in developing the Inquisitor’s powerful speech, aiming to convince the church court of Joan’s guilt for spreading heresy.
“No, I was beside him. He died at once” (159). But yet she tells him, “I know you want
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory, / The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est / Pro patria mori (Owen, lines 25-28).
At the time Mercutio makes his famous "Queen Mab" speech in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he and Romeo, together with a group of their friends and kinsmen, are on the way to a party given by their family's arch-enemy, Lord Capulet. Their plan is to crash the party so that Romeo may have the opportunity to see his current love, Rosaline, whom they know has been invited to the Capulet's masque that evening.
... bewildering display of sparamagos and omophagia. The sight of these rituals is powerful enough to drive a person mad and indeed they do drive Catherine mad. However, Sebastian’s death can also be seen as liberation. Not only was he freed from a society that denied him as a human being; he was also delivered to his god as the ultimate gift. In Christianity Jesus sacrificed his life for mankind. Sebastian sacrificed his life for his own liberation.
It was the break of dawn on a Sunday in fair Verona.The town was just beginning to awake up.This was not true for the son of the Montagues who was still heartbroken over his true and new love, Rosaline. Rosaline was like most girls Romeo tried to court, young and beautiful, but the difference was that Rosaline wasn’t attracted to Romeo. Benvolio, one of Romeo’s best friends who attempts to cheer him up, but nothing worked. All this changed when an illiterate servant asks to read the note for Romeo. The note readed as follows “his wife and daughters...my fair niece Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena”(Act 1 Scene 5 L-40). Romeo asked the servant whom the party list was from, he responded by saying it was from his master, the rich and powerful Lord Capulet. The Capulets were the Montagues greatest enemy even though both houses are alike. Trying to cheer Romeo up, Benvolio tells Romeo that
...make you/ The queen of Naples.”(page 125-125 line 448-450) Prospero thinks this process move quickly and the wants to decrease the quickness. And he doubts about Ferdinand and Prospero is not polite to Ferdinand. In this scene, Prospero’s voice should be stable and harsh. Therefore, audience can understand her father’s feelings because being a father of girl is different to everything.
He decided to “remain there till the storm had passed,” (148) with his son Bibi. Since the storm represents Calixta’s passions, he is avoiding those passions. Immediately after, Calixta was “sewing furiously on a sewing machine,” (148) and did not notice the oncoming storm. Calixta’s ignorance of the oncoming storm and her frustration in performing such mundane tasks suggests that her sexuality is repressed through the constraints of marriage. Then, when Alcée arrived, and Calixta invited him in, she babbled and “nervously began to gather up from the floor the lengths of a cotton sheet which she had been sewing,” (149). By putting away the cotton sheet, she is further distancing herself from a symbol of society’s constraints and her marriage and draws closer to acting upon the increasing sexual tension. Without an object between her and Alcée, her focus shifts towards him. Her nervousness and excited chatter, combined with the rain that was “coming down in sheets obscuring the view of far-off cabins and enveloping the distant wood in a gray mist,” (150) help to illustrate the sexual tension building between Alcée and Calixta. The rain here is in tune with her emotions; the more unsettled Calixta becomes, the stronger the storm
Miranda’s relationship with Ferdinand is the first example we see of her feelings of amazement; when she first sees him she remarks, “I might call him / A thing divine, for nothing natural / I ever saw so noble” (1.2.422-424). Miranda’s reaction is childlike and characteristic of her inexperience; she admires Ferdinand because her father has influenced her to admire nobility and stand in awe of power. She is...
Already dealing with feelings of shame and the loss of the hope of Jesus Christ, the heavy weight of guilt is pressing down on his shoulders as well, so heavily that it brings him to tears. Hughes says “..I was really crying because I couldn’t bear to tell her [aunt] that I had lied, that I deceived everybody in the church, that I hadn’t seen Jesus, and that now I didn’t believe there was a Jesus any more” (232). He lies to the aunt he loved and all the congregation of the church, and he knows deep inside him that it was wrong.
The confusion that Sebastian creates when he returns would not occur. without Viola's disguise, in the middle of the room. Sir Andrew believes that the woman of his desires. Olivia, is spending too much time with Cesario, and challenges him to a duel. As he put it, Olivia was doing "more favors to the Count's servingman than ever.
With Feste's help, we are able to attain a better understanding of the other characters in the play- revealing their true personalities, which are sometimes unseen, not only by us, the audience, but also by the characters themselves. He shows Olivia how unrealistic and excessive her mourning for her brother's death has been, he tells Orsino how foolish he is for languishing in a mood of love-sick melancholy for Olivia and points out how mercurial his personality is, and he makes a fool out of the pompous Malvolio. "Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun- it shines everywhere" says Feste.
In Act 2 scene 5 the mood is very lighthearted and is full of theatrical comedy, we find Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and their friend Fabian hidden away as they await Malvolio to stumble upon the letter supposedly written by Olivia. Even though they are hidden the audience can still see their reactions and hear their comments, which adds to the melodramatic aspect of the scene. The audience is anxious to see what unravels next as they know Maria purposely wrote the letter in order to fool Malvolio.
Even though Lady Would-Be gives Peregrine a quick apology after being corrected by Mosca, Peregrine still feels slighted and promises to take revenge upon Sir Politic, leading to the climax of the subplot and foreshadowing the resolution of the main storyline. “Am I enough disguised?” Peregrine asks his accomplices as he enters Sir Politic’s house. Different from Volpone and Mosca, his ambition is to frighten only, not to cause serious harm to Sir Pol. However, he is urged by his helpers to “prick his guts,” which the temperate Peregrine rejects. Like a satirist, Per...