| ACT 4, SCENE 1 | … |
| “Nothing that is so, is so” | SebastianRepetition he is confused and trying to make up what is happening around him |
| “thou knows’t not me” | … |
| “Are all the people mad?” | … |
| “how many fruitless pranks. This ruffian hath botch’d up” | … |
| “thou shalt not choose but go: Do not deny.” | … |
| “If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!” | … |
| “Nay, come, I prithee; would thou wouldst be ruled by me!” | … |
| ACT 4, SCENE 2 | … |
| “I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.” | Biblical Reference to the Ten Plagues of Egypt |
| “I would we were well rid of this knavery” | Alliteration of the letter “w” |
| “My lady is unkind… She loves another.” | … |
| “this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as hell” | Malvolio |
| “there was never a man so notoriously abused” | MalvolioRepetition |
| “They… keep me in darkness, send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to face me out of my wits.” | … |
| ACT 4, SCENE 3 | … |
| “This pearl she gave me, I do feel’t, and see’t” | SebastianSymbolShortening of words (what is this technique?)He realises that he isn’t dreaming and this is reality – in shock that a pretty girl is so in love with him. |
| “There’s something in’t that is deceivable.” | Sebastian |
| “Blame not this haste of mine.” | Olivia |
| “… that my most jealous and too doubtful soul may live at peace.” | Olivia |
| “and having sworn truth, ever will be true.” | Sebastian |
| “and heavens so shinethat they may fairly note this act of mine!” | SebastianRhyming couplets |
| ACT 5, SCENE 1 | … |
| “Here comes the Countess: now heaven walks on earth!” | … |
| “Why should I not… kill what I love?” | … |
| “Him will I tear out of that cruel eye” | … |
| “him I love more than I love my eyes, more than my life” | … |
| “Be that thou knows’t thou art” | … |
| “Will you help? An ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin-faced knave, and a gull!” | Sir Tobylisting, exclamative |
| “An apple cleft in two is not more twin” | Antonio |
| “Most wonderful!” | Olivia |
| “a madman’s epistles” | … |
| “the madly-used Malvolio” | … |
| “Cesario, comeFor so you shall be, while you are a man” | still calls him Cesario despite knowing Cesario is actually Viola |
| “Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!” | … |
| “and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges” | … |
| “I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you” | Malvolio |
| “He hath been most notoriously abused.” | Festesuperlativerepetition |
| “And we’ll strive to please you every day” | Feste’s song Ends the play reminding the audience to not take this play too seriously because it is a comedy. Breaking the 4th wall, you know. |
Twelfth Night – Act 4 & 5 Quotes
July 9, 2019