Carpe Diem Attitudes in the play
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- Created on: 22-03-18 18:11
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- 'CARPE DIEM ATTITUDES IN THE PLAY
- Sir Toby
- Maria: 'you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order'
- Sir Toby can be seen as an embodiment of the play's festive, comic energies
- He is characterised by excess
- Toby's motivations are selfish, he lives to enjoy drinking and merry making
- He is devoted to self-gratification w/o much thought for others
- 'Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?'
- He defiantly aligns himself
- Challenge's Malvolio's right to impose his puritanical codes on behaviour on the revellers
- When the puritans came to power after the civil war, their first aims were to shut all theatres. Maybe Toby's 'cakes and ale' may not be just about self-indulgence, rather a defence of the way of life which includes theatre itself
- An intebrated but eloquent rhetorical question, he dismisses sobriety - both literally & in the wider metaphorical sense of the attempt to deny appetite & pleasure
- The clash between revelry and repression establishes the conflict which will lead to Malvolio's inevitable undoing
- Maria: 'you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order'
- Feste
- Get's involved with Sir Toby's revelry
- However, his song contributes to the sense of melancholy which permeates the pla
- 'O mistress mine, why are you roaming?'
- You would think that Feste, being a jester, would have the most carpe diem attitude of all, however that's not necessarily the case
- There seems to be irritation from Feste, amid the jesting, in the exchanges between him and Andrew
- 'I shall be constrained in't to call thee knave, knight'
- 1974 Ron Pember's Feste - became a Malvolio like puritan
- There seems to be irritation from Feste, amid the jesting, in the exchanges between him and Andrew
- However, his song contributes to the sense of melancholy which permeates the pla
- Jumps at the chance to play the mysterious wise fool
- 'Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady'
- Challenges Olivia, attempting to prove she is a fool
- 'More the fool Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven'
- Surely heaven is a better place
- 'More the fool Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven'
- Challenges Olivia, attempting to prove she is a fool
- 'Cacullus non facit monachum'
- The hood doesn't make the monk
- Just because he is dressed as a fool, doesn't mean he is one
- 'I wear not motely in my brain'
- 'Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady'
- Get's involved with Sir Toby's revelry
- Thad Jenkins Logan - 'Festivity has lost its innocence - highly sexual with a subplot of revelry'
- Geoffrey Hartman - 'Play is preoccupied by puns and witty rhetoric'l
- 1999 Tonkin - 'Sir Toby's word of festival idleness will eventually give way to Malvolio's kill joy world of everyday'
- Geoffrey Hartman - 'Play is preoccupied by puns and witty rhetoric'l
- Sir Toby
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