Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Twelfth Night - A02
- Form
- Dialog between characters conveys relationship
- eg Olivia and Feste friendship - Shakespeare shows both characters intellect by constructing colloquy in prose
- Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. [Feste. Act 1, scene 5]
- Aphorism - shows Feste is erudite gives audience a higher knowledge of the plot presented by other characters
- Indication of Feste's aloofness from the play - detached from unfolding scenario
- Observer as oppose to participant
- Viola and Orsino - iambic pentametre
- Viola: I should your Lordship. Orsino: ...................................... And what's her history? . . . Viola: Sir,
shall I to this lady? Orsino: ..................................... Ay, that's the theme.
- Merging of characters half line into a whole line
- Linking lines also seen in Romeo and Juliet
- shows the balance both characters provide for eachother
- Form of language helps actors show Shakespeare's intentions
- Structure
- Exposition - establishing the main character relationships in a situation involving a conflict.
- Development - building up the dramatic tension and moving the conflict established to its climax. (In
Twelfth Night, increasing complications resulting from love, and mistaken identity.)
- Development - building up the dramatic tension and moving the conflict established to its climax. (In
Twelfth Night, increasing complications resulting from love, and mistaken identity.)
- Sebastian: . . . some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned.
Antonio: Alas the day! Sebastian: A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of
many accounted beautiful. [Act 2, Scene 1]
- Lets the audience know Sebastian is alive - mistaken identity plot - sets up dramatic irony
- River Action = actions not closely linked are moving in parallel to be integrated at the end of the play
- Language
- Used to convey feelings and thoughts of characters
- Malvolio speaks in prose at start of play to show intelligence but speaks in verse towards the end of the play
- Distorted rhythm showing he is feeling strong emotion - humiliation
- In contrast to smoothly flowing lines of Orsino
- If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken,
and so die. [Act 1, Scene 1]
- Malvolio is more well-spoken than witty, but he is more pompous and arrogant.
- I'll be reveng'd on the whole pack of you! [Act 5, Scene 1]
- Metaphor signifies isolation from the rest of the group