Transcript As You Like It - Palomar College

Twelfth Night
Characters,
structure, and themes
Twelfth Night
or What You Will
• Title “What You Will” is like “As You Like It”
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Does it mean “Whatever is your pleasure”?
Is it the ending that is as we like it? what we will?
Is the world they inhabit as we will? Golden world?
Are the characters? Rosalind and Viola most
perfect
Twelfth Night
Dominant images
Viola/Cesario
Orsino
Olivia
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Plot structure
• Main Plot – wooing
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Orsino/Olivia through Cesario (Viola)
Olivia/Cesario into Olivia/Sebastian
Viola (as Cesario)/Orsino
Olivia/Sebastian (whom she thinks is Cesario)
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Subplot structure
• Subplots
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Feste’s singing and begging
Sir Toby’s drunkenness
Sir Andrew’s wooing of Olivia
Malvolio’s Puritanism
Maria’s Jest
Feste’s revenge
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Viola’s interaction w/other characters
Captain
1.2
3.4, 5.1
Antonio
Viola
1.2, 2.4,5.1
5.1
Sebastian
1.5, 3.1,3.4, 5.1
Orsino
Olivia
2.1
Orsino’s
men
1.4
2.4, 3.1,5.1
Feste
3.5, 5.1
Malvolio
Sir Toby
Sir Andrew
Maria
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Olivia’s interaction w/other characters
Antonio
Captain
Viola
Sebastian
1.5
5.1
Orsino
Orsino’s
men
1.5
Feste
4.1, 4.3, 5.1
Olivia
1.5
1.5, 5.1
1.5, 3.4, 5.1
Malvolio
Sir Toby
Sir Andrew
Maria
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Feste’s interaction w/other characters
Antonio
Captain
Viola
Sebastian
2.4, 3.1, 5.1
Orsino
Orsino’s
2.4, 5.1
men
Olivia
1.5, 5.1
1.5, 2.3, 4.2, 5.1
Malvolio
Sir Toby
Sir Andrew
Maria
1.5, 2.3, 4.2, 5.1
Feste
4.1, 5.1
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Toby’s/Andrew’s/Maria’s interactions
Antonio
Captain
Viola
Sebastian
3.1, 3.4, 5.1
Orsino
Orsino’s
men
4.1, 5.1
Olivia
1.5, 3.4, 5.1
Malvolio
1.5, 2.3, 4.2, 5.1
Feste
Sir Toby
Sir Andrew
1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 2.5, 3.4, 5.1
Maria
1.5, 2.3, 4.2, 5.1
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Malvolio’s interactions
Antonio
Captain
Viola
Sebastian
2.1
Olivia
Orsino
Orsino’s
men
1.5, 3.4, 5.1
2.3, 4.2, 5.1
Malvolio
1.5, 2.3, 2.5, 3.4, 5.1
Feste
Sir Andrew Sir Toby
Maria
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Orsino’s interaction w/other characters
Antonio
Captain
Viola
Sebastian
1.4, 2.4, 5.1
1.4
Orsino’s
men
Orsino
2.4
Feste
5.1
Olivia
Malvolio
Sir Toby
Sir Andrew
Maria
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Integration of all Characters
Antonio
Captain
Viola
Orsino
Orsino’s
men
Sebastian
Olivia
Malvolio
Feste
Sir Toby
Sir Andrew
Maria
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two worlds
• Orsino’s / masculine
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Talk of hunting
Music/emotion
Love is unrequited
Wooing through
intermediary (Cesario)
– Direct wooing (Viola)
• Olivia’s / feminine
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Talk of grief
Jesting /tricks
Love is impossible
Wooing through
intermediary (Malvolio)
– Direct wooing (Olivia)
– Supposed wooing (letter
to Malvolio)
As You Like It
Couples
• realistic
– Viola/Orsino
• romantic
– Olivia/Sebastian
• Sexual
– Sir Toby/Maria
• Inappropriate
– Malvolio/Olivia and Sir Andrew/Olivia and
Olivia/Viola
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Foiling
• Character foiling
– Viola/Olivia, both lost brothers
– Viola/Olivia/Orsino—all have love unrequited
– Viola/Feste, both travel freely between
households
– Viola/Sebastian, both lost sibling, are strangers
Twelfth Night -- Act I
Scene 1
Orsino sad
Scene 2
Viola sad
To serve Orsino
Scene 4
Viola and Orsino
Scene 3
Sir Toby drunk
Maria aids
Scene 5
Maria/Feste
Feste/Olivia
Olivia/Malvolio
Olivia/Cesario (Viola)
Twelfth Night -- Act II
Scene 1
Antonio/Sebastian
Scene 2
Malvolio/Cesario
Scene 4
Orsino/Viola
Feste
Scene 3
Sir Toby/Andrew
Maria/Feste
Malvolio
Scene 5
Maria’s Jest
Malvolio letter
Twelfth Night -- Act III
Scene 1
Viola/Feste
Sir Toby/Andrew
Viola/Olivia
Scene 2
Sir Andrew to
Challenge Cesario
Scene 4
Olivia/Malvolio, yellow stockings
Sir Toby to care for Malvolio
Olivia/Cesario
Viola challenged by Sir Andrew
Antonio rescues Viola
Scene 3
Sebastian/
Antonio
Twelfth Night -- Act IV
Scene 1
Feste/Sebastian
Sebastian fights Sir Toby
Olivia breaks up fight
Scene 2
Malvolio’s
torment
Feste as
Scene 3
Olivia and
Sebastian marry
Twelfth Night -- Act V
Scene 1
Feste/Fabian
Feste/Orsino
Viola/Orsino/Antonio
Olivia/Orsino/Cesario
Sebastian/Sir Toby/Sir Andrew
Viola/Sebastian
Malvolio
Feste’s Song
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Masculinity and Femininity
Nature of love (unrequited), of wooing
Grief
Loyalty
Revenge
Puritanism: no fun, no drink, no song
Twelfth Night and As You Like It
comparison of main characters
• Rosalind
– Father absent
– Cousin/sister Celia
– Disguise for fun and
protection
– Gets Orlando to woo her as
Ganymede. Teaches him
about love
– Both masculine and
feminine
• Viola
– Father dead, brother lost
– Alone
– Disguise necessary for
modesty
– Wooes Olivia for Orsino,
Admits love for him,
teaches him how to love
– Both masculine and
feminine