A CLOSER ANALYSIS ACT 2 (NOTES)

• Aim: What happens during the rising action of the play?

• Do Now: Literary Devices: Dramatic Irony vs. Situational Irony, Soliloquy vs. Monologue

• Lesson: Discussion & Notes on Act 2 Scenes 1,2 & 3• H.W.: Short Response (3-4 sentences) Which

character to you identify with and why?

SITUATIONAL VS. DRAMATIC IRONY

If you haven’t noticed already…this play is LOADED with ironies

• Situational Irony: a literary device in which an incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen and what actually happens, something entirely different happens or the final outcome is opposite to what the audience is expecting.

• Ex) Cesario woos Olivia for himself by mistake

• Dramatic Irony: a literary device by which the audience’s or reader’s understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters; the audience knows something the characters don’t

• Ex) The Duke describes Cesario as effeminate

MONOLOGUE VS. SOLILOQUY

Two devices that are very similar and often confused

• Monologue, in literature and drama, an extended speech by one person. The term has several closely related meanings. A dramatic monologue is any speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person. An interior monologue is a type of monologue that exhibits the thoughts, feelings, and associations passing through a character’s mind.

• A soliloquy is a type of monologue in which a character directly addresses an audience or speaks his thoughts aloud while alone or while the other actors keep silent.

ACT 2.1 - SEBASTIAN IS ALIVE!

• What has Antonio done for Sebastian? Can you find Sebastian’s line in the text that explains this?

• “If the heavens had been pleased, so we had so ended. But you sir altered that, for some hour before you took me from that breach of the sea where my sister drown” (19-22)

• In Antonio’s last speech, what does he reveal about his position in the Duke’s land?

• He wants to help

• Offers to be his servant (34)

• Says he loves Sebastian Brotherly Love? Could it be romantic?

• Symbolic of altruism/benevolence/selflessness

ACT 2.2 – MALVOLIO DELIVERS THE RING TO CESARIO• Describe Malvolio’s attitude with the ring. (lines 5-11)

• “You might have saved me the pains”

• Tell your lord “she will have none of him”

• “You peevishly threw it at her”

• Peevish: querulous in temperament or mood, cross, ill-tempered

• “If it be worth stooping down for, there it lies”

• Malvolio is self-riteous, acts above Cesario even though they are both servants, forces Cesario to bow down and get the ring if he wants it

• Knowing what we know at the end of Act 2, why else might he be so rude and arrogant to Cesario?

ACT 2.2 – MALVOLIO DELIVERS THE RING TO CESARIO• Upon receiving this ring from Olivia, what are at least 3 things

expressed by Viola in her soliloquy.

• Recalls how Olivia spoke, looked & acted she behaved strangely

• Pities Olivia…she loves a dream

• Personifies he disguise as wicked causing heartache & confusion

• Theorizes about women easily falling in love/having frailty (fall in love with the wrong person/with looks)

• She is hopeless like Olivia both love what they can’t have

• Time is personified as the only one that can fix this/untie the knot

ACT2.3 – TOBY PARTIES WITH HIS GANG

• Who parties with Toby? (In the movie vs. the text)

• What is Malvolio’s reaction in the middle of the night? (line 96-100)

• “Are you mad? Or what are you?”

• “Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty”

• “Is there no respect of places, persons nor time in you?”

• If you can’t stop you drunken party she is willing to kick you out

• Scold Maria personally for taking part in this “uncivil rule” and will be sure to tell Olivia about it (155-160)

• Again Malvolio is self-righteous, arrogant, and this time threatening

• Is it his job to reprimand them? (Toby is higher than him)

ACT2.3 – TOBY PARTIES WITH HIS GANG

• How will they get back at him? (line 130-165)• Through trickery will make him an object of scorn = “If I

do not gull him...and make him into common recreation.”

• Maria will play on his weaknesses/vices = his self-love• “He thinks that….all look on him to love him.”

• Will plant a confession of love for him to find• Forged by Maria from Olivia

A CLOSER ANALYSIS ACT 2 (NOTES)

• Aim: What happens during the rising action of the play?

• Do Now: Which character do you identify with & why?• Lesson: Discussion & Notes on Act 2 Scenes 4 & 5• H.W.: Study for the Quarterly “Quest”• Act 1 & 2 Analysis Questions

• Class Notes

• Freytag’s Formula (Diagram & Definitions)

• Lit Devices: Simile, Metaphor, Pun, Innuendo, Oxymoron, Soliloquy, Monologue Classical Allusion, Situational Irony, Dramatic Irony

ACT 2.4 – CESARIO & ORSINO “HANG OUT”

• What does the Duke say he wishes he could hear? Why does he desire this?• Needs more music to feed his soul (line 3-7)• Characterizes himself a true lover that can’t focus

on anything but love (line 19-20)• However, the song that he wants to hear is very

dark (line 58-73)• “I’ve been slain by a cruel fair maid”• “Lay me where my lover will never find my

grave”

ACT 2.4 – CESARIO & ORSINO “HANG OUT”

• Why does Orsino question Cesario about his experience with love?

• Orsino “If ever thou shalt love…remember me” Thinks Cesario is too young to know love, but ironic because Viola does love him

• Asks Cesario if he likes the song, who responds, “It gives very echo to the seat where love is throned.” (line 23-24)

• Realizes that Cesario speaks masterly of love (line 25)

• How does Cesario respond? (Line 25-34)

• “A little, by your favor” Pun: courteous reply but also referencing Orsino’s face (favor)

• “Of your complexion,” “About your years”

• What’s Viola really saying or admitting?

• ACT 2.4 – CESARIO & ORSINO “HANG OUT”What does the Duke advise about women? (Line 35-45)

• Advises him to marry a younger woman

• Young women can “wear” to their husbands (shape herself to fit him)

• If she can meld to become a perfect fit for him then she will have “sway” over him (double meaning: she will rule him or balance him.

• They will compliment each other

• Sounds very romantic but…..

• Men’s fancies are “unfirm,” “wavering,” “sooner lost and worn” than women’s are

• Marry younger or you’ll lose interest, love will not endure

• “For women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall every hour”• Speaking of her beauty

• And an innuendo

• What’s the irony here?

ACT 2.4 – CESARIO & ORSINO “HANG OUT”

• What does the Duke say about a woman’s ability to love compared to his passion? (line 100-130)

• My heart beats with a strong passion

• No woman’s heart is as big or can hold as much as mine

• Their love may be called an “appetite” woman are casual about love

• “Make no comparison between that love a woman can bear me and that I owe Olivia” (111-113)

• The shows the Duke’s true colors• Not the best lover in the world as he claims

• He’s sexist, self-righteous, selfish, arrogant, superficial

ACT 2.4 – CESARIO & ORSINO “HANG OUT”

• Cesario responds….• “To well what love women to men may owe”

• They can love as strongly as men

• If were a woman I would love you

• Talks of a sister who kept silent & pined in grief for the man she loved really talking about herself

• Oddly….Viola still loves him after this conversation• Is she really that clever or is she just blinded by love?

REVIEW MARIA’S PLAN FROM 2.3

• How will they get back at him? (line 130-165)• Through trickery will make him an object of scorn = “If I

do not gull him...and make him into common recreation.”

• Maria will play on his weaknesses/vices = his self-love• “He thinks that….all look on him to love him.”

• Will plant a confession of love for him to find• Forged by Maria from Olivia

ACT 2.5 – THE TRICK ON MALVOLIO: REVENGE

• What is the trick on Malvolio by Toby and his gang? Do you pity him at this point?

• “Observe him for love of mockery” (Maria)

• Malvolio wants to be Count Malvolio

• Wants to order people around = “Calling my officers about me”

• Wants to dress in a velvet robe

• Wants Toby to curtsy (bow) to him

• What does the “love letter” request that Malvolio do for Olivia?

• Be opposite with the kinsmen, surly with the servants

• Make speeches to the state

• Wear yellow stockings & smile often