Twelfth Night Analysis: Act 5 Scene 1

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Plot and Dramatic Form Analysis 00:27
Feste's Song: "When that I was a little tiny boy" 50:10
CHARACTER Analysis: 10:43
(For detailed analysis of all major characters, see • Twelfth Night: Charac... )
C9 Feste: Honourable deceiver?
C3 Orsino: generous, yet no gull = worthy; eloquent, gracious
Antonio: Pirate? Liar?
C4 Olivia: worthy, yet liar?
C1 Viola: self-sacrificing hero, worthy; the cause of the chaos?
C5 Toby: sociopath, comedic version of Iago
C6 Andrew: gull
We, the audience, are complicit in cruelty?
C1 Viola and C2 Sebastian: male-female versions of the same noble, worthy hero
C8 Malvolio: narcissist
C7 Maria: Olivia’s rebuke reflects badly on Maria; as sociopathic as Toby?
C9 Feste: detached Greek chorus, wise fool, brutal compassion
THEME Analysis: 10:43
(For detailed analysis of these and other themes, see: • Twelfth Night: Theme A... )
T3 Nobility vs baseness
T4 Excess vs moderation
T4 Appearance vs Reality
T2 Wasteland
T5 Love the destroyer: jealousy
T7 Avoidance
T10 Change: Peripeteia and anagnorisis, no metamorphosis
T9 Manipulation: cruelty revealed, audience implicated by worthy Olivia’s stern rebuke.
T8 Revenge, Nemesis
T11 Dual nature of love/life
T1 Time wasting:
Divine/Sacred Marriage
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