Fate

Cards (8)

  • 'fate appears to the speakers as an overriding power'
    Salingar, 1958
  • 'O' time thou must untangle this'
    Viola
  • 'fate show thy force'
    Olivia, when she is in love & fate.
  • “This pearl she gave me, I do feel’t and see’t: / And though ’tis wonder that enwraps me thus, / Yet ’tis not madness.”
    Sebastian
  • “Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
    Feste witty comment on fate having a way of resolving things eventually
  • “So comes it, lady, you have been mistook: / But nature to her bias drew in that.”
    Orsino tells Olivia that fate and nature corrected her mistaken love for Cesario (Viola in disguise), since Viola is the one truly meant for him. He implies fate led each person to their rightful match.
  • Fate in Twelfth Night is often shown through coincidence, mistaken identity, and unexpected outcomes—yet it typically leads to harmony by the end. Characters often express a sense of wonder or surrender to forces beyond their control.
  • The play accepts coincidence and chance as part of its world
    Leggatt