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    The document analyzes key themes in Twelfth Night including conventions of class and gender, love, madness, appearance vs. reality, and deception/disguise. It provides examples from the play that illustrate each theme. For class and gender, it discusses examples that show Malvolio's vanity and insolence as a servant. For love, it highlights several characters' deep devotion to one another, like Antonio's love for Sebastian. For madness, it notes how characters like Malvolio and Olivia challenge logic and civility. For appearance vs. reality, it discusses the theme of characters not being what they seem. And for deception/disguise, it provides examples of how characters like Viola and

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    The document analyzes key themes in Twelfth Night including conventions of class and gender, love, madness, appearance vs. reality, and deception/disguise. It provides examples from the play that illustrate each theme. For class and gender, it discusses examples that show Malvolio's vanity and insolence as a servant. For love, it highlights several characters' deep devotion to one another, like Antonio's love for Sebastian. For madness, it notes how characters like Malvolio and Olivia challenge logic and civility. For appearance vs. reality, it discusses the theme of characters not being what they seem. And for deception/disguise, it provides examples of how characters like Viola and

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    The document analyzes key themes in Twelfth Night including conventions of class and gender, love, madness, appearance vs. reality, and deception/disguise. It provides examples from the play that illustrate each theme. For class and gender, it discusses examples that show Malvolio's vanity and insolence as a servant. For love, it highlights several characters' deep devotion to one another, like Antonio's love for Sebastian. For madness, it notes how characters like Malvolio and Olivia challenge logic and civility. For appearance vs. reality, it discusses the theme of characters not being what they seem. And for deception/disguise, it provides examples of how characters like Viola and

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    Twelfth Night Quote Bank PDF

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    The document analyzes key themes in Twelfth Night including conventions of class and gender, love, madness, appearance vs. reality, and deception/disguise. It provides examples from the play that illustrate each theme. For class and gender, it discusses examples that show Malvolio's vanity and insolence as a servant. For love, it highlights several characters' deep devotion to one another, like Antonio's love for Sebastian. For madness, it notes how characters like Malvolio and Olivia challenge logic and civility. For appearance vs. reality, it discusses the theme of characters not being what they seem. And for deception/disguise, it provides examples of how characters like Viola and

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    BY THEME

    1. Conventions of class and gender-


    ↓
    ● “Have you no manners, wit nor honesty but to gabble like tinkers?” - Malvolio
    reprimanding his superiors
    ● “(Be) surly with servants.” - Malvolio imagining his life as Olivia’s husband.
    Highlights his vanity and insolence as a servant
    ● “I am not of your element.” - Malvolio, telling off his superiors as a servant.
    Highlights his vanity.
    ● “She uses me with a more exalted respect than anyone else that follows her '' -
    Malvolio thinking that Olivia truly loves him which is highly unlikely as a woman
    of high status. Highlights his conceitedness
    ● “Nothing that can be can come between me and my hopes” - Malvolio
    daydreaming of his life as Count. Highlights how pompous he is which facilitates
    his delusion.

    ● “I abused myself, my servant and you.” - Olivia speaking to Cesario, she is afraid
    she was too forward in her approaches which is abnormal for a woman
    ● ” I have laid my honour too unchary on’t” - Olivia speaking to Cesario, she is
    afraid she was too forward in her approaches which is abnormal for a woman
    ● “Come again tomorrow” - Highlights Olivia’s boldness/forwardness
    ★ When Olivia tells Malvolio to, “run behind that peevish messenger” on the
    pretence that he left his ring behind as an excuse to see him again

    2. Love -

    ● “He would be his servant if he does not murder him for his love” - Antonio, his
    love for Sebastian runs deep
    ● “But come what may, I do adore thee so, That danger shall seem sport, and I will
    go”- Antonio, he loves Sebastian so much that he would risk his life just to be
    close to him (as they enter Illyria)
    ● “My desire, more sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth” - Antonio, his love and
    need/urge to be near Sebastian made him risk his life, “he (I) could not stay
    behind him (you)”
    ● “ Have done offence, I take the fault on me” Antonio- risks his life yet again for
    Sebastian
    ● “This comes with seeking you…”
    ● “Love’s night is noon” - Olivia
    ● “I love thee so maugre all thy pride, not wit nor reason can my passion hide”
    -Olivia
    ● ‘Love sought is good but giv’n unsought is better” -Olivia
    ● “Let music be the food of love, give me excess of it” … “Enough no more”-
    Orsino. Highlights his fickleness when it comes to love
    ● “Our fancies are more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn” -Orsino, gives
    his views on how men love with much more passion than women and need to be
    satisfied all the time
    ● “Let thy love be younger than thyself” -Orsino, gives his views about age and
    women i respect to love
    ● “They lack retention, their love may be called appetite no motion of the liver but
    of the palate that suffers surefit, cloyment and revolt” -Orsino, -Orsino, gives his
    views on how men love with much more passion than women
    ● “But mine is as hungry as the sea”-Orino
    ● “Let concealment like a worm in the bud feed on her damask cheek” & “she sat
    like patience on a momentum, smiling at grief, was this love indeed” -Viola, she
    loves Orsino so much that she hides away her pain and woos Olivia just to make
    him happy, her love is genuine, indifferent and authentic
    ● “Much in our vows, but little in our love”- Viola
    ● “Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife” -Viola
    ● “Make me a willow cabin at your gate… hallow your name to the reverberate
    hills” -Viola
    ● “What’s to come is still unsure; In delay there lies no plenty” - Feste, love is
    unpredictable and it must be seized quickly. Particularly relates to Olivia’s
    situation.

    3. Madness- Civility has been pushed aside so that other characters in Twelfth Night
    can freely indulge in silly antics and ribaldry.

    ● “ A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit” -Feste, he


    ● “Sir Topas, never was a man thus wronged. Good Sir Topas, do not think I am
    mad. They have laid me here in hideous darkness.” - Malvolio after being locked
    up as a madman and being confused by Feste’s disguise.
    ● “ Say thou that the house is dark.. As hell sir topas”-Malvolio
    ● “I am as mad as he, If sad and merry madness equal be” -Olivia comparing her
    deep love for Cesario to Malvolio’s state.
    ● “Windows transparent as barricadoes, lustrous as ebony” -Feste, confusing and
    tormenting Malvolio by subverting logic to make him seem as a madman
    4. Appearance VS Reality- comedic genre facilitates this

    ● “The more fool to mourn for your brother’s soul being in heaven”
    ● “This fellow is wise enough to play the fool and to do that well craves a kind of
    wit” -Viola
    ● “The tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta”- Feste is smart enough to
    identify orisno’s changeable attitude after mere moments with him
    ● “For thy mind is very opal’- Feste can easily make out people by observation
    ● “I am not what I am”- Viola

    5. Deception and Disguise

    ● “ I am not that I play” -Viola


    ● “What I am, and what I do are as secret as maidenhead”- Viola, who responds to
    Olivia’s forward questions while indirectly hinting her disguise
    ● “Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness, Where in the pregnant enemy does much”
    - Viola who laments about the unintended consequences (Olivia falling in love
    with her) of her disguise, she openly rebukes disguise & deception as malevolent
    force.
    ● “My master loves her dearly, And I (poor monster) fond as much on him” -Viola
    ● “Let concealment like a worm in the bud feed on her damask cheek” & “she sat
    like patience on a momentum, smiling at grief, was this love indeed” -A
    consequence of her disguise, she cant openly love Orsino, instead she shows her
    love for him by putting his needs before hers
    ● “I am all the daughters of my father’s house”/ “My father had a daughter who
    loved a man” -Viola
    ● “Make me tell them how much I lack of man”- Viola, consequence of her disguise
    (being forced to duel)
    ● “Sir Topas, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic” - Feste, disguised as curate
    Sir Topas to make a fool out of Malvolio

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