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| Character | Viola | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Descriptive, Insecure, Talking to the audience | |
| Type | Serio-comic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Comedy, War | |
| Description | Viola realizes Olivia has fallen in love with her (Cesario) | |
| Details | ACT 2 Scene 2 | |
Summary
The play takes place in the kingdom of Illyria. The Duke Orsino is madly in love with Lady Olivia, a noble lady who has decided not to marry for seven years to mourn her brother's death.
In the meanwhile a storm off the coast of the kingdom causes a shipwreck. Viola, who was on that ship, survives and manages to reach the Illyrian shore. She meets a sea captain who tells her about Orsino and Olivia. She decides to would like to work for Olivia but the sea captain tells her Olivia won't see anybody that she doesn't know. She then decides to disguise herself as a young man, by the name of Cesario, and to work for Duke Orsino.
Viola (Cesario) becomes the Duke's favorite servant and she ends up falling in love with him. The Duke decides to send Cesario to deliver his messages to Olivia and Olivia ends up falling in love with Cesario. The first time they meet Olivia tells Cesario to tell Orsino that she does not love him but tells Cesario to come back to tell her how Orsino takes the news. After Cesario leaves, Olivia sends her head servant, Malvolio, to catch up with Cesario (Viola) and give him/her a ring that she pretends he has forgotten in her house.
Malvolio reaches Cesario (Viola) and gives him/her the ring. Cesario tells Malvolio that he had brought the ring for Olivia and she must keep it. Malvolio leaves the ring and leaves.
In this monologue Viola wonders why Olivia has given this ring to her. She realizes it probably means that Olivia has fallen in love with Cesario. So now she loves Orsino, Orsino loves Olivia and Olivia falls for Viola disguised as Cesario. This is a problem, she says, that hopefully time will untangle.
In the meanwhile a storm off the coast of the kingdom causes a shipwreck. Viola, who was on that ship, survives and manages to reach the Illyrian shore. She meets a sea captain who tells her about Orsino and Olivia. She decides to would like to work for Olivia but the sea captain tells her Olivia won't see anybody that she doesn't know. She then decides to disguise herself as a young man, by the name of Cesario, and to work for Duke Orsino.
Viola (Cesario) becomes the Duke's favorite servant and she ends up falling in love with him. The Duke decides to send Cesario to deliver his messages to Olivia and Olivia ends up falling in love with Cesario. The first time they meet Olivia tells Cesario to tell Orsino that she does not love him but tells Cesario to come back to tell her how Orsino takes the news. After Cesario leaves, Olivia sends her head servant, Malvolio, to catch up with Cesario (Viola) and give him/her a ring that she pretends he has forgotten in her house.
Malvolio reaches Cesario (Viola) and gives him/her the ring. Cesario tells Malvolio that he had brought the ring for Olivia and she must keep it. Malvolio leaves the ring and leaves.
In this monologue Viola wonders why Olivia has given this ring to her. She realizes it probably means that Olivia has fallen in love with Cesario. So now she loves Orsino, Orsino loves Olivia and Olivia falls for Viola disguised as Cesario. This is a problem, she says, that hopefully time will untangle.
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| VIOLA I left no ring with her: what means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her! She made good view of me; indeed, so much, That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue, For she did speak in starts distractedly. She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion Invites me in this churlish messenger. None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none. I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis, Poor lady, she were better love a dream. Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness, Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. How easy is it for the proper-false In women's waxen hearts to set their forms! Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we! For such as we are made of, such we be. How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly; And I, poor monster, fond as much on him; And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me. What will become of this? As I am man, My state is desperate for my master's love; As I am woman,--now alas the day!-- What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe! O time! thou must untangle this, not I; It is too hard a knot for me to untie! |
