0:01 hello and welcome to our next episode in our journey through 12th nights we're on to act 2 scene 4 and yeah we've done all of these so far and that is where we are right now just get the pointer ready there we go so we're on four so let's jump into it straight away so we finished on the party scene last time and now we cut over back to warino and we've also got some Viola here as well we got Cur some minor characters here as well they distracted me then for a second those cheeky minor characters but anyway so we return back to the music Motif give me some music imperative there links to oro's high social status you can make a
0:47 connection there with that from Shakespeare there and again music being the food of love was the opening of the play wasn't it and that was Oro we've got the connection back here as well then we have that piece of song that old and antique song we heard last night he thought it did relieve my passion much more than Li hairs and recollected terms of these most brisk and giddy paced times come back one verse so I may have said before I can't remember if I've said it now but in Shakespeare's time they believed that music was a connection to the higher forces of the universe and music has an effect on emotion I mean we've already mentioned music be the food of Love play on so Oso
1:32 wants to hear this old and antique song so there's a real sense of the power of music and the connection with emotions and we know Oro is a character he's characterized as a love sick courtly Lover he doesn't really understand love he thinks he does but he doesn't that's part of the point of what we're witnessing as we go through the play so he's wanting to hear the player of the music this turns out to be feste actually he's not here so please your lordship curio don't worry too much about this as a character just a minor character who attends orino feste the jester my Lord he doesn't always get referred to by name often in the text he's normally referred to as fool isn't he but his name is
2:18 feste and that links to festival and celebration as well just for a second I thought I might have covered up my microphone then anyway hopefully you can still hear me all right yeah it looks like you can so then we have a fool that the lady Olivia's father took much delight in he's about the house so feste he's a bit of a rebel in many ways he wanders where he wants to really he's not really meant to disappear for so long from Olivia's house cuz he is an employee of hers but he does he wanders around she's not in the mood for comedy all the time at the moment anyway so orino gives an order to come and find feste and then you've got oo with via how does how Dost thou like this
3:05 tune is he listening to the music wants to get the original player of it so gone to find Fest one of the other musicians is playing it or several musicians is playing it it gives a very Echo to the seat where love is thrown VI's language here is very courtly isn't it very romantic and again with the idea of pragmatics context and implied meanings that this is clear that Vier is referring to her love for osino that to speak masterly oh actually I've never thought of that looking at it right now I suppose that is subtly ironic in terms of Master associated with male isn't it as well masterly and you could talk about shakespare is uh challenging gender expectations there in a way it's very subtle very tiny little way and you
3:51 would talk about bigger things if you were writing about it but I've never thought of that before until I just saw that my life upon it though th young though Thou Art thine eye hath stayed upon some favor that it loves hath it not boy so orino he's he doesn't really understand Love Actually but he can recognize it he can tell that via is in Love a Little by your favor so that is actually a bit of Lies there a bit of understatement for effect what kind of woman is it of your complexion now that seems very strange doesn't it when it like in terms of context that you wouldn't really expecting that Oro wouldn't be expecting that within the social context of the era as well what kind of woman is it of your complexion so that is a slightly unusual response
4:37 straight away for the context of the time she's not worth e then what years in faith so Oro is being modest about his own appearance there as well what years in faith about your years my Lord so this is all about Shakespeare's using pragmatics here there's dramatic irony as well of course because the audience know that Vier is in love with Oro and they're actually Oro is talking about I'm sorry go backwards Violet is talking about orino too old by Heaven let's still the woman takeen Elder than herself so this reflects cultural values of the time as well so the idea is the prevailing the prevailing cultural norm is of men and women
5:25 marrying the man being older than the woman that's the kind of cultural expectation actually it didn't always happen even in Shakespeare's time it wasn't necessarily always going to be like that but this is what Oro recommends so wear she to him so sways she level in her husband's heart for boy however we do praise ourselves our fanes are more Giddy and unfirm more longing wavering sooner lost and worn than women's are so he refers to differences between men and women and again this is ironic because he thinks he's talking to a man doesn't he and it's actually it's a woman so really you could argue you hear you could link this to Crossing of gender boundaries as well Shakespeare say well actually really all the differences in men and women are superficial constructs because actually
6:11 Oro can't tell the difference between Viet actually being a woman herself and she's disguises a man he thinks she's a man so he takes that what he sees as face value so some interesting things to explore there then then let my th thy love be younger than thyself sorry I'm garbling my words here although affection cannot hold the bent for women are as roses whose Fair flower being once displayed do fall that very hour so you have a simile and then actually it's extended metaphor as well and so they are alas that they are so to die even when they to Perfection grow so this sounds like VI's agreeing with Oro but really the implication is it's it's Vier feeling sad that she can't actually be with Oro well that's how I interpret it
6:57 anyway Here Comes feste he's coming in to play some music oh fellow come the song we had last night so he wants to hear this nice song that he heard first they play okay so we have the song I'm not going to sing it I'm going to spare you that but it's a sad romantic song there for th pains no pain sir I take pleasure in singing sir so there's antithesis of Pleasure and Pain there I'll pay thy pleasure then truly sir and pleasure will be paid one time or another this can be played in some Productions as feste being aware of cesario's interest in orena or what feste perceives as cesario's interest in
7:45 orino feste not knowing that Cesario is Vier in Disguise so it could be the idea of feste is aware of what he thinks is a homosexual relationship some some Productions will emphasize that more than others then off goes the full let all give the rest let all the rest give Place once more Cesaro get thee to Y same Sovereign cruelties so that's actually a metonym to describe Olivia so the idea of he regards her as being cruel and rejecting her love it's not cruel to reject someone's love is it if you're not interested in somebody it's not really cruel you just go no no thanks
8:30 but anyway he still wants to attempt to be with Olivia but if she cannot love you sir I cannot be so answered orino is very rigid in his thinking and this is always presented as a floor as well isn't it and you might even know people who are like this and I talk about this when we talk about the The Great Gatsby actually don't be the gats you know you some people get so fixated on a particular person they can't imagine their life without that person they can't be with anyone else I can't imagine it and it ruins their life really all the time makes them miserable and sometimes like in The Great Gatsby actually sometimes you know that person isn't suitable for that person and it's just going to be toxic as a relationship
9:18 so I would say yeah don't be the Gatsby um Olivia isn't as bad as Daisy Fay in Great Gatspy but um the uh but the idea is this same I think or Ceno is wasting his time going after someone who's not interested in him in Daisy's case she is interested in Gatsby anyway that's maybe for a future video series possibly so just ignore me for now we go and read The Great Gatsby because it's very good anyway then but mine is all as hungry as the say I highight that because that's a nice little simile there as well this talks about his appetite for love do you know about love basically and then the answer is too well what love women to men may owe again more dramatic irony yeah I know all about how
10:05 much women love men my father and a daughter loved a man as it might be perhaps were I a woman I should your lordship so imagine if I was a woman I'd be in love with you isn't that interesting what's her history she never told her love but let concealment like a worm in the bud feed on her damasque cheek so there's more another simile there we've got lots of similes here today was this not was it not was not this love indeed we men may say more swear more but indeed our shows are more than will for still we prove much in our vows but little in our love so an idea actually another theme of this play is that it is about language and words and the idea with men may profess to be deeply in love and to you know to say
10:51 all these things but actions speak louder than words but die thy sister of our love my boy I all the daughters of my father's house and all the brothers too so this is more dramatic irony of Vier is one and the same effective she's male and female she's taking the role of her own brother effectively and telling the story of her dead sister even though she's not dead she's alive oh dear my brain's just overloaded so I'm going to stop before my brain explodes I hope yours hasn't exploded it does all make sense put a comment in if you want me to explain it more maybe ready to call down a bit anyway I hope you enjoyed that like comment subscribe look at my other videos and have a great day or night whatever you're doing thank you and tune
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