Important Knowledge

Cards (21)

  • Name 3 scenes involving Sir Toby Belch
    • Introducing Sir Andrew to Maria
    • Drunken scene interrupted by Malvolio
    • Plotting against Malvolio
    • Getting Sir Andrew and Viola to fight
    • Getting Feste to trick the imprisoned Malvolio
  • Who are Olivia’s 3 suitors?
    • Orsino
    • Sir Andrew
    • [ Malvolio ]
  • In what way is Sir Toby tricking Sir Andrew?
    That he has a chance of successfully wooing Olivia
  • Why is Sir Toby tricking Sir Andrew?

    To spend his money – tricking him out of it eg buying favours from servants / buying off a duel with his horse
  • How are these characters in disguise?

    a)     Viola- as a man for safety
    b)     Sir Andrew – as a renaissance man / an eligible bachelor / educated aristocrat
    c)     Malvolio – as a serious, moral and devoted servant
    d)     Olivia – saying she is mourning to keep Orsino at a distance
  • Give 3 examples of suffering in the play

    a)     Orsino unrequited love
    b)     Viola unrequited love
    c)     Malvolio in prison
    d)     (Sir Andrew forced to fight)
  • Give 2 examples of cruelty in the play
    1. The imprisonment and taunting of Malvolio
    2. Olivia rejecting Orsino - standard generic
  • Is marrying Sebastian a happy ending for Olivia?
    Yes, because getting married IS a generic happy ending in itself. She has married a suitable bachelor and she needed to marry someone
    No, because….she was attracted to a woman, she didn’t want to lose head of house status by marrying someone like Sebastian or Orsino, rather she wanted to marry someone of messenger/servant status
  • Is marrying Viola a happy ending for Orsino?
    Yes, because…he has married a suitable lady / someone he was instinctively close to and intimate with during the play
    No, because….he was attracted to her when she was male
  • Is marrying Maria a happy ending for Sir Toby?

    Yes, because…marriages are happy endings / they worked well together / liked each other / there was a sense of equality between them
    No, because….she is a step down. A marriage between different social class.
  • Does Orsino have deep feelings for Olivia?
    Yes, because…he speaks poetry with images and similes of overwhelming love
    No, because….he doesn’t speak about her individually / he swops quickly / he had intimacy with Cesario that he never got to with Olivia.
  • Give 4 examples of misrule (gender/class)
    • Malvolio trying to marry “up”
    • Sir Toby’s drunkenness
    • Olivia running a household
    • Viola acting as a man
    • Maria getting revenge on Malvolio
    • Maria marrying “up”
    • Orsino being lovesick and unmanly
    • riotous drunkenness
  • Give two examples of Feste knowing more than other characters do.
    • That Viola is a man
    • That Orsino has feelings for Cesario
  • Give 3 examples of Feste’s wit
    • That Olivia should not be unhappy that her brother is dead
    • That your friends are worse than your enemies
    • The taunting of Malvolio with nonsensical questions
  • What are the reasons, according to Sir Toby, that Olivia won’t marry Orsino?
    She’ll not match above her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit
  • 4 things in Malvolio’s fantasy of power?
    • Seven servants “obedient start”
    • branched velvet gown
    • rich jewel
    • telling servants they should know their place
  • What is the climax of Malvolio’s daydream?
    He tells Sir Toby to “amend [his] drunkenness”
  • Why does Maria want revenge on Malvolio?
    He told her he would tell Olivia that the excessively loud drinking party was her fault. Bullies her in front of everyone
  • How does Malvolio irritate Sir Toby into wanting to punish him?
    He tells him to be quiet (unacceptable from servant)
  • How does Sir Toby irritate Malvolio into dreaming of revenge:
    He puts him in his place “art thou any more than a steward”
  • Who has the last line in the play and name the repeated line at the end?
    Feste “the rain it raineth every day”