Theme of Excess
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- EXCESS
- Olivia
- Arguably excessive length of her mourning
- The impression we have been given does not line up with the impression in Act 1 Scene 5
- She is not a 'cloistress' and is able to run her household, engage in wordplay, deliver her opinion & seemingly enjoy her interview with Viola
- Some productions use the contrasting views of Olivia to suggest her mourning is a smokescreen to deter Orsino's advances.
- She is not a 'cloistress' and is able to run her household, engage in wordplay, deliver her opinion & seemingly enjoy her interview with Viola
- She abandons her mourning very quickly after meeting Cesario
- Olivia
- Arguably excessive length of her mourning
- The impression we have been given does not line up with the impression in Act 1 Scene 5
- She is not a 'cloistress' and is able to run her household, engage in wordplay, deliver her opinion & seemingly enjoy her interview with Viola
- Some productions use the contrasting views of Olivia to suggest her mourning is a smokescreen to deter Orsino's advances.
- She is not a 'cloistress' and is able to run her household, engage in wordplay, deliver her opinion & seemingly enjoy her interview with Viola
- She abandons her mourning very quickly after meeting Cesario
- Could suggest she wasn't that committed to it, or the overpowering feelings she has for Cesario have overtaken her sadness
- Metaphor 'Even so quickly may one catch the plague'
- Some critics feel she got what she deserved b/c she disregared her mourning so quickly and they enjoy seeing her being made a fool of
- Could suggest she wasn't that committed to it, or the overpowering feelings she has for Cesario have overtaken her sadness
- 'And water once a day her chamber round with eye-offending brine'
- In Victorian times there were very strict rules on mourning
- The impression we have been given does not line up with the impression in Act 1 Scene 5
- Arguably excessive length of her mourning
- Metaphor 'Even so quickly may one catch the plague'
- Some critics feel she got what she deserved b/c she disregared her mourning so quickly and they enjoy seeing her being made a fool of
- Olivia
- 'And water once a day her chamber round with eye-offending brine'
- In Victorian times there were very strict rules on mourning
- The impression we have been given does not line up with the impression in Act 1 Scene 5
- Arguably excessive length of her mourning
- Sir Toby
- 'You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order'
- He is characterised by excess
- His motivations are selfish, he lives to enjoy drinking and merry-making
- He is devoted to self-gratification without much thought for others
- RSC production in 1997, the stage was dominated by an enormous, oversized fridge for Sir Toby and late night raids. A visual symbol of his gluttony and self-indulgence
- Even his name suggests over-indulgence
- 'Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am'
- Confinement, modesty and order are antipathetic to his excessive and disorderly conduct
- His excess is also apparent in his talkative nature and an extravagance with language in which he is not completely in control of his words
- He even rejects the authority of time and perhaps, the limitation of time itself
- His excesses are punished in the end, with a stark reminder of the limits of the body, when Sebastian wounds him, and he is ironically unable to berate drunkenness
- 'You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order'
- Orsino
- His desire for excess music and his excessive feelings of love
- 'If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it'
- His love seems to be more of a self-indulgent emotion
- The hyperbole of his language suggests he is in love with the sensation of being in love
- His desire for excess of the music, which gives him sensations of music suggests love is like a drug
- This may be why is view is slightly twisted as he is clouded to the truth
- His desire for excess of the music, which gives him sensations of music suggests love is like a drug
- 'Surefeiting'
- Indicates that he wants to be overpowered and consumed by feelings of love
- He uses a lot of clichés to express his love
- 'I was turned into a hart, And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds e'er since pursue me'
- A spiritual form of love is stressed by the vivid image of his consuming physical desires
- Reference to the legend of Actaeon, a huntsman who was turned into a deer and devoured by his hounds for glimpsing the virtuous Diana bathing
- 'I was turned into a hart, And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds e'er since pursue me'
- 'If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it'
- His desire for excess music and his excessive feelings of love
- Olivia
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