Orsino - English Literature

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  • Orsino
    • Is the 'melancholy lover.'
      • In love with the idea of love.
    • Unable to distinguish between love and reality.
    • Changeable and moody - "enough; no more."
    • Wallows in his emotions - "Love -thoughts lie rich."
    • Thinks his love is better than everyone else's - "my love, more noble than the world."
    • Speaks language of exaggeration - "give me excess of it" and "as hungry as the sea."
    • Links love with sickness - "sicken and so die."
    • He worships Olivia like a goddess - "now heaven walks on earth."

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