Thursday, November 17, 2011

A1 - Blog # 7 - Twelfth Night

Please read Act V, Scene 1 and respond to the prompts below.  Use quotes when stipulated.


1.  What does Orsino do when he comes to realize that Cesario is Viola?  How would you react?  Use a quote as support.

2.  In the end, who is the double wedding composed of?

3.  How does Sebastian take over some of Viola's masculine characteristics?

4.  Orsino continues to call Viola, Cesario, what does this say of his attraction to her?

5.  You might label this play a Romantic Comedy.  How so?  Use at least two quotes as support.

Due: Tuesday, 11.22

2 comments:

  1. 1. Orsino is delighted that Cesario is a woman, and asks her to put on women's clothing because he loves her and wants to marry her. If i was Orsino, i would have been shocked because i was tricked by my own worker for the whole time.
    2. i wasnt really sure about this question
    3. Sebastian looks at Viola and says that he never had a brother, only a sister. Viola thinks that Sebastian is a ghost of her dead brother. Finally, Viola reveals herself, and Sebastian reveals to Lady Olivia that he loves her.
    4. The image of Cesario was larger than Viola, meaning "Cesario" seemed to be more natural for Orsino
    5. Well firstly because, there were many misunderstandings because of Viola being Cesario. and secondly because of the prank people did on Mavolio, seemed to pull attention.

    Jun Ogawa

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  2. 1. Orsino was first confused, but then he said “Give me thy hand, And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds” (5.1.264-265). He accepted the fact that Cesario is Viola and wanted her to dress up as a woman.

    2. I think Orsino composed the double wedding.

    3. Sebastian apologized to Sir Toby about Viola's cruelty against Sir Andrew.

    4. Orsino looks at Viola as a man when she is not dressed up as a woman, so he kept calling her Cesario.

    5. This play is a Romantic Comedy because the main character, Viola, pretended to be a man and got along with Olivia, who is a woman. "Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times Thou never shouldst love woman like to me" (5.1.258-259). This is actually funny because in the end of the story, Orsino noticed that a couple with same gender were in love. Also, Malvolio was fooled by Maria. "I'll drop some mysterious love letters in his path... I can make my own handwriting look just like Lady Olivia's" (2.3.137-140). Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian enjoyed Malovolio's reactions when he read the letter aloud.

    Ifumi

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