Love in all its guises | Love has layers – self love, romantic, familial, lust, friendship, unrequited |
“If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it” – Orsino | Love sick for Olivia despite her rejection – excess of unrequited love |
“When mine eyes did see Olivia first methought she purged the air of pestilence” – Orsino | Encouraged to persist Olivia by the fact she could love deeply – unrequited love |
Orsino sends Cesario to Olivia to win her favour | Unrequited love |
“Your lord does know my mind, I cannot love him.” – Olivia | Unrequited love Orsino gives Olivia |
“Let him send no more, unless perchance you come to me again. Methinks I feel this youth’s perfections” – Olivia | Olivia gains interest in Cesario, he knows exactly what to say to a woman because he is one! |
Olivia sends Malvolio with a ring to Cesario | Tokens: key symbol in the movie to try and win affections, real love can’t be won over |
“If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servent” – Antonio | Romantic/friendship love |
Orsino declares women cannot love as deeply as a man | Irony: doesn’t love deeply himself, how does he love Olivia if she doesn’t not love him back, he only lusts |
“Of your complexion and about your years my Lord.” – Olivia | Olivia hints she likes Cesario |
“I know all too well what love women to men may owe” – Viola | Dramatic Irony |
“I pity you”/”that’s a degree to love” | Olivia reveals feelings to Cesario but they are not returned, she is desperate for affection – unrequited love |
“Wear this jewel for me, refuse it not” – Olivia | Persists with Cesario, still thinks she’s in love and can win him over |
“If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!” – Sebastian | Romantic, lust love |
“There’s something in it that’s descivable” – Sebastian | Marries Olivia despite not even knowing her |
“For his sake did I expose myself to danger, all for his love” – Antonio | Genuine love for Sebastian |
“I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, to spite a raven’s heart within a dove” – Orsino | Reveals Orsino’s love for Olivia was lust and he loved the idea for love, yet he has feelings for Cesario |
“Where goes Cesario?”/”After him I love…more than e’er I shall love wife” | Viola stays faithful to Orsino |
“Most wonderful!” – Olivia | When she sees two ‘Sebastians’ – loves the idea of love and excess of it |
“I shall have share in this most happy wreck…let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds” – Orsino | Orsino can only love Viola as a woman (genuine love?), quickly switches affections from Olivia to Viola (lust) |
Twelfth Night – Unrequited love
July 15, 2019