Quote 1:
“If music be the food of love, play on and give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.”
This quote occurs at the beginning of the play as lovestruck Orsino tells his servants, “If music be the food of love, play on” Shortly after this quote, Orsino asks for his musicians to play a lot of music so that he will overdose and no longer desire love from Olivia anymore. Through these words, Shakespeare introduces the image of love as a plague that/ nobody wants. He also makes the image that love is like something that sneaks up to people, and through that it becomes easily unavoidable. Through this, the audience gathers a question of whether romantic love has more to do with the reality of the person who is loved of with the lovers own imagination. For Orsino and Olivia , imagination seems to be more powerful
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As she is thinking this she considers the sea captain’s truthfulness that it won’t work. Shakespeare has made this quote become a plot twist for the audience. In the quote, Viola describes the way that some people can seem “fair” on the outside, however they are concealing a “beauteous wall”, an inner nature that can be “polluted” and become evil. Viola’s speech sets the tone for a play intent on thinking about whether or not the outside matches what’s on the inside.
Quote 2:
“Methinks I feel this youth's perfections with an invisible and subtle stealth to creep in at mine
In the book, A Tale Of Two Cities, Dickens starts with the famous quote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” (Dickens, Chapter 1). The book takes place in two areas, London, England and Paris, France. The people of France, specifically the peasants, were suffering through starvation, high taxes, and overall neglect from the government. Meanwhile England is beginning to shift into the Industrial Revolution, which can be considered one of the country’s highest point in history. They were able to mass produce and thus strive with the money the earn from their products. In comparison, France was in crippling debt from the wars they had managed to involve themselves in.
People tend to invest so much of themselves into a particular person they love, yet their investment in their relationship oftentimes end in utter rejection. Orsino appears to have a strong love for the Countess Olivia, but in the end, he falls in love and marries Viola. In the early 1600s comedy Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare reveals through the development of Orsino the love and desire towards an apparent loved one, thereby, showing the fluidity of love and its presence in interactions between two people.
The fantasy of Olivia he supposedly unconditionally loves is not about Olivia, but all about himself. Not only this, but Orsino is easily convinced to return the deep affection of Viola, possibly because the Duke focuses entirely on his success and desires in love rather than genuine affection. Perhaps, Orsino only developed these feelings for Olivia because he wanted more luxurious things in life. Orsino had great food, servants, and a giant castle. The one thing he lacked in was love. Therefore, the Duke wished to have the most beautiful countess in all of the land: Olivia, to continue owning more and more luxurious things. Through this, Shakespeare conveys that an egotist and wealthy man cannot genuinely love if he does not fixate the gain of love on himself. Not only this, but it also continues the previous message that one might be irrationally obsessed with the idea of love rather than a person due to all of the pleasures there are to
“I was sick – sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was
In this scene the point about civilization Huxley is trying to make is the newer and cleaner the more civilized. An example is "they've been doing this for the last five or six thousand years. So i suppose they must be used to it by now" pg. 105 he's showing that the uncivilized group of people are still stuck in the old times and haven't adapted any new ideas therefore they are uncivilized. Two other quotes that caught my attention are "cleanliness is next to fordliness" pg. 105 and "civilization is sterilization" pg. 105 and these two quotes show what they're idea of civilization
Another place where George betrayed Lennie is on page 60 when George,Lennie and Candy are all in the bunkhouse and Candy agrees to pay for some of the land and in return George was going to let Candy help out on the farm. Now instead of it going to be just him and lennie on the farm he ended up going against what he told Lennie and allowing candy to tag along. He broke his promise to Lennie. One might say that it’s fine that he invited him along because it’s not like Lennie cares anyways,but that is besides the point. The point is George told Lennie on multiple occasions that it was only going to be them two and no one else. He essentially lied to him.
One can observe Orsino's love for Olivia as obsessive. Orsino’s first words “If music be the food of love, play on,” introduce him as a love-sick character whose mind revolves around a woman who does not return his feelings (I.i.1). Olivia constantly populates his mind and he does not cease his pursuit for her love, even after she expresses distaste towards him. Shakespeare mocks love-sick individuals for acting like fools and putting themselves through misery. After learning of Olivia’s marriage, Orsino realizes he has lost her and lashes out at Cesario. He threatens him by stating “I’ll sacrifice the lamb I do love to spite a raven’s heart within a dove”(V.i.33-34). Shakespeare uses Orsino’s love for Olivia to differentiate between good and bad love. Unrequited love can cause an individual to pursue violent actions in blind rage. Orsino shows how love is consuming, crippling, and hinders the ability to live out life.Orsino believes his love for Olivia is true, but he is actually in love with the idea of love, and believes he can only obtain it from Olivia. Shakespeare tries to inform the audiences that they could mistakenly believe they are in
The fourth act in the first act of William shakespeare’s “Macbeth” shows the beginning of Macbeth’s fall into his dark ambitions and desires. During their conversation, Duncan refers to Macbeth in an honorable way by saying “O worthiest cousin” (1.4.16). The quote makes Duncan out as someone who wants to be friendly to Macbeth and putting his guard down. This action allows Macbeth the ability to get close and assassinate the king. I incorporated a picture of barren wasteland to show how no one will be able to aid the king if he were attacked. The image epitomizes the vulnerability the king put himself in by becoming close to Macbeth, who begins to plot against him. Consequently, Macbeth becomes aware of his descent as he says to himself “Let
“So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.” This quote demonstrates that in roles of power hardships form because there is imbalance in the situation, which provides a contrast to the nature of the position. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the main character Macbeth desires to become King of Scotland therefore he commits horrendous crimes to obtain the position. However, flawed with an ambitious personality, Macbeth has a moral decay thus causing him to act irrationally which eventually leads to his death. Shakespeare’s main character demonstrates the problems of living an imbalanced life and obtaining
Imagine you are women who has a strong heart and does not get down easily, but you are constantly put down by men. This scenario happens almost every day to women and they do not know why men do this to them. The reason that I think men do this is because they have been socialized this way to get a girl and they push down a girl to fulfill their own insecurity. Men from 400 years ago also used to push down women and girls, which I think started this social act of putting women down between some guys. A strong women who was pushed down by most of the men in her life in The Taming of the Shrew was Katherine.
British politician William Pitt once said that “[u]nlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know … that where law ends, tyranny begins”. Pitt’s assertion is substantiated by William Shakespeare’s 17th century tragedy entitled Macbeth, where the protagonist Macbeth commits unspeakable crimes in his pursuit of power, including the murders of many innocent people such as King Duncan I of Scotland, Macduff’s entire family, and his friend Banquo. Consequently, Macbeth becomes paranoid and is ultimately slain by Macduff at the end of play. Macbeth’s lust for power leads him to his downfall as it causes him to slowly metamorphose from a courageous, loyal, and noble general to a brutal, cruel and inhumane tyrant.
Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy, and romantic love is the play’s main focus. Despite the fact that the play offers a happy ending, in which the various lovers find one another and achieve wedded bliss, Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain. Many of the characters seem to view love as a kind of curse, a feeling that attacks its victims suddenly and disruptively. Various characters claim to suffer painfully from being in love, or, rather, from the pangs of unrequited love. At one point, Orsino depicts love dolefully as an “appetite” that he wants to satisfy and cannot, at another point; he calls his desires “fell and cruel hounds”. Olivia more bluntly describes love as a
At first he pleads for the “excess of it, that, surfeiting” (I.i.2). For, music nourishes the soul; therefore he wants more of it. However, later in the soliloquy Orsino says that because of love, music “tis not so sweet now as it is before” (8). Shakespeare is already showing how Orsino tries to force passionate love for Olivia that it is not as sweet and fulfilling as it should be if it was genuine true love. This theme goes throughout the play and even comically plays out in Olivia’s forged love for Malvolio. Any type of false love in Twelfth Night comes to a crash landing at the end.
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a play with themes that parallel the folly of the festival it is named after. The main storyline of the plot plays on this a lot by mixing up the stereotypes around gender that were very present at the time. However, a sub-plot involving secondary characters defines this theme even more. It takes the idea even further by relating servants’ attempts to blur the lines between social classes. Twelfth Night’s Maria and Malvolio both have great aspirations to rise above their social class. However, Maria succeeds where Malvolio fails because of her capability to make use of the satiric ambiance of her mistress’s household to achieve her goals.
A quote from Orsino proves that this is the case, “O when mine eyes did see Olivia first, me thought she purged the air of pestilence.” This quote in simple terms means that when Orsino first saw Olivia he felt that she made the world perfect and this was someone he wanted to marry, but Orsino did not know Olivia’s personality and only liked her because of her looks and wealth which means that what Orsino was feeling is lust. Lust is when a person is attracted to somebody purely off attraction rather than true feelings and does not even consider the person’s morals and mannerisms. Shakespeare was attempting to show that this type of love is not real love and purely for one to use someone else for wealth and or pleasure.