Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Literature - Twelfth Night
- THEMES AND ISSUES
- Mistaken identity
- Viola and Cesario, Viola and
Sebastian, Antonio, Malvolio
- Northrop Frye's Green World
- 1). The rural world means that urban and business concerns can be forgotten.
- 2). Time is also forgotten. There are no clocks.
- 3). The older, restrictive generation can be dispersed with.
- 4). There is often gender confusion.
- 5). The mythical and real merge.
- 6). It is a temporary holiday atmosphere.
- 7). There is no social hierarchy.
- The old world - urban rules.
- Up until Scene 1, 2 and 3 when Viola dresses as a man
- Green world - chaos and disorder
- From scene 4 when Viola is in costume, up until it's resolved
- New world - the resolved plot
- when everyone's true identities are discovered
- Mistaken identity, love of family, romance, opposing forces,
imprisonment, bullying, Puritanism, pleasure, madness,
self-deception, appearance and reality, hedonism,
resentment, conflict, betrayal, jealousy, loss and death,
confusion deceit, assumptions, competition, foolishness
honesty, friendship, status, family, love, passion
- C.L BARBER
- Comedies read in light of marriages, wassails and wakes
- Pagan and Christian holidays are all starting points
- May Day, Whitsuntide, Midsummer
Eve, Harvest, Halloween
- Comedy about pleasure and merry-making
- Comedy is a form of release
- Comedy reacts against social conformity
- MIKHAIL BAKHTIN
- Made observations on the contrast between official
culture of the state / religious system / organisations
and the culture of the market place / people
- Carnival is a significant
celebration because it allows
people freedom away from
official culture (e.g. Mardi
Gras before Lent
- Misrule, indulgence in food and sexual activity