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Desire and Love. If music be the food of love, play on. Duke Orsino’s soliloquy forms the first lines spoken in the play. The speech introduces the importance that love will play in the plot. Orsino, as we soon learn, is in love with Lady Olivia. But Lady Olivia is not moved by the Duke’s advances, leaving Orsino in a rather uncomfortable ...
In perhaps the most famous metaphor of the play, Orsino's opening words are, "If music be the food of love, play on. / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die" (1.1). In this metaphor, Orsino equates music with something that "feeds" love. He asks to have more and more music so that he will overindulge and ...
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Explanation and Analysis—Lovesickness: Most physicians of Shakespeare's time were strong believers in humoral theory, which posited that the human body contained four vital fluids or "humors," and that an imbalance of these humors was the cause of all physical and mental ailments. In Twelfth Night, both love and grief are compared to illness ...
Quotes. PDF Cite Share. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That notwithstanding thy capacity. Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there, Of what validity and pitch so’er, But falls ...
Metaphor Examples in Twelfth Night: "debt of love..." See in text (Act I - Scene I) Olivia’s sadness and ardent commitment to keeping that sadness “fresh” in her “remembrance” can be seen as a pose of melancholy. Like Orsino who affects the tropes of love-sickness, Olivia plays the role of melancholy. Together, these two characters ...
Read our selection of the very best and most well known Twelfth Night quotes below, along with speaker, act and scene. “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”. Duke Orsino (act 1, scene 1) “I have unclaspd. To thee the book even of my secret soul.”.
This quote is significant as it marks the first time a character openly rebukes disguise and deception as a malevolent force, capable of misleading and causing inadvertent damage. Here, Feste is asked by Sir Toby to dress up as a priest in order to fool Malvolio, now imprisoned as a madman. Feste’s disguise as priest is integral to a mock ...
