Friday, February 19, 2010
Focused Free Write "Sport Royal"
In Act II scene 3 line 179 Maria calls her scheme to manipulate and embarass Malvolio "Sport Royal..." What I make of this is that Maria is going to use the upperclass, the royal postition to use as a pawn in a sort of sporting game against Mavolio. Maria plans on using Olivia's status to tease and make fool of him but dangling her royal status in front of him as a something he wants to grab and uptain to, and since others are involved and are sort of acting like spectators it has become a game or sport.
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This is kind of what I was thinking in class the other day. This is almost like a game, or sport, for Maria, Andrew and Toby. Malvolio is just their pawn who they're going to be toying with. As for the idea of it being "royal", I think this is just a way for them to say that it is going to be grand and hilarious for them to watch. To me it means that this joke is going to be a big deal for them.
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