Viola: "Then think you right. I am not what I am."
Olivia: "I would you were as I would have you be." (III.i.148-149)
The statements are very straight forward, I think, because Viola is being completely honest when saying her line becayse she is not what she is portraying herself to be, a man when in acctuality she is a woman just like Olivia. Olivia is lovestruck, just as Malvolio is when he comes across the letter , by Cesario who is actually Viola (a woman) and puts Cesario on a pedestal because she feels that Cesario is her true beloved. Viola knows that Olivia is way off base becuase first off she is really a woman and secondly the Duke is trying to court her using Viola and the more Viola pushes the Duke onto Olivia the more infatuated she becomes to Viola.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
crush it and they will bow to me
Malvolio: "......and yet to crush it a little, it would bow to me...." (II.v.143-145)
This scene really makes me laugh because it shows what love can do to a man. Malvolio is completely lovestruck and blinded by the hope that this letter he is reading is about him. He completey misconstrues the letter to make it seem as if it is about him. Little does he know it was written by Maria and not Olivia. He says crush because he wants to crush the letters to make his name fit into it and if he does crush it the letter will bow to him and therefore it would mean that Olivia would really love him. We all know this is untrue unfortunately he doesnt.
This scene really makes me laugh because it shows what love can do to a man. Malvolio is completely lovestruck and blinded by the hope that this letter he is reading is about him. He completey misconstrues the letter to make it seem as if it is about him. Little does he know it was written by Maria and not Olivia. He says crush because he wants to crush the letters to make his name fit into it and if he does crush it the letter will bow to him and therefore it would mean that Olivia would really love him. We all know this is untrue unfortunately he doesnt.
Wait who is the man?
Viola: "I am the man" (II.ii.25)
Wait, hold on a second maybe i am confused but isnt Viola a woman?!?!?! How can she be the man if in fact she is a woman. Ironic isnt it because she is a woman saying this quote that just about every man today says when they get their testotarone flowing. This is where you see all the love connections being made. Oliva loves the person Viola is trying to be, "the MAN" or Cesario, but Viola is actually in love with the Duke so it is a very weird situation. Just like the statement made my Viola.
Wait, hold on a second maybe i am confused but isnt Viola a woman?!?!?! How can she be the man if in fact she is a woman. Ironic isnt it because she is a woman saying this quote that just about every man today says when they get their testotarone flowing. This is where you see all the love connections being made. Oliva loves the person Viola is trying to be, "the MAN" or Cesario, but Viola is actually in love with the Duke so it is a very weird situation. Just like the statement made my Viola.
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