Tuesday, February 23, 2010
"I am the man." FFW (II.ii.25)
Viola is speaking to herself after her encounter with Malvolio and him returning the ring to him that Orsino had not given Olivia. Viola says "I am the man." meaning that she is the man that Olivia loves not Orsino. Orsino never gave her a ring, she set this all up just for me to come back to her. If this is true which she says it is, it is going to be sad for her since, she is not a he. It will be sad for her. Olivia has no interest in Orsino at all Viola is the man of Olivia's desires!!!!
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This is the part of the play where we start to see a major rise in the amount of confusion amongst the characters and also we see the play drift farther and farther away from normalcy. This is all because we see that after her encounter with Olivia, Viola has realized that Oilvia has fallen for her, but not for the real her, for the man that she is digiused as, Cesario. This is a very odd point in the play because this is where the love triangle between Olivia, Viola and Orsino begins to develop.
ReplyDeleteOh I got excited--I thought you were starting to write from Viola's point of view; maybe stream-of-consiousness. That would be really interesting. But you switched back to third person--why??
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