True love and self love
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- Created on: 22-03-18 19:13
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- True love & self-love
- Orsino
- His initial passion for Olivia is based on idea of himself as a lover
- 'my desires like fell and cruel hounds e'er since pursue me'
- Hyperbolic and cliched language
- Blank verse makes his speech seem artificial and fake
- self love draws parallels to the myth of Narcissus, who becomes transfixed with his reflection
- It would have been rare for a man of Orsino's status to chose a lover himself
- Presents him as foolish and naive to an Elizabethan audience; marriages were often arranged
- Peter Cash- wildly inconsistent behaviour, character with most self love
- 'my desires like fell and cruel hounds e'er since pursue me'
- Orsino's emotional concern for Cesario eclipses his passion for Olivia
- 'I should you lordship. And what's her history'
- Shared line of iambic pentameter; deeper meaning to relationship
- Destined to be together
- Viola educates Orsino out of his narcissistic views on love
- Orsino believes that he feels more passionately than women
- 'no motion of the liver'
- dramatic irony: Viola tells Orsino indirectly about her love for him, demonstrating women can feel passionately
- 'like a worm i'th'bud'
- Metaphor shows bottling up her love is killing her
- 'like a worm i'th'bud'
- Orsino believes that he feels more passionately than women
- 'I should you lordship. And what's her history'
- Relationship based on could be based on mistaken identity
- 1996 film, Trevor Nunn, sexual intimacy between Orsino and Viola; the pair kiss, shows Orsino is in love with a male
- Emma Smith- Orsino questions his sexuality, he feel for the boy Cesario
- Viola would have been played by a man in Elizabethan times (women not allowed on stage)
- 1996 film, Trevor Nunn, sexual intimacy between Orsino and Viola; the pair kiss, shows Orsino is in love with a male
- His initial passion for Olivia is based on idea of himself as a lover
- Olivia
- Uses her mourning as a smokescreen
- Women would have belonged to their fathers, then a husband, Olivia has independence
- Her declaration of love to Cesario is heart-felt and shows her despair
- 'I had rather hear you to solicit that'
- Extra syllable- hypermetric- heightens her emotional state, showing her passion for Cesario
- 'I had rather hear you to solicit that'
- Relationship based on mistaken identity
- Samuel Johnson criticised lack of credibility in Olivia's marriage to Seb
- Uses her mourning as a smokescreen
- Antonio
- Arguably the only character in the play who acts selflessly for the one they love
- Love is a cause of suffering for him
- 'I do adore thee so'
- Speaks in verse once Seb has left
- Could show his love for Seb is of a high standing, places importance on his love
- Speaks in verse once Seb has left
- Orsino
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