Thursday, February 18, 2010
Inkshedding on Twelfth Night Act II
"Nay, by my troth, I know not. But I know to be up late is to be up late" Act 2 Scene 3 line 4-5 from the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, what does Sir Andrew mean by it? As a personal reflection and taking into account the comments of my fellow students in the inkshedding exercise, I feel that we all agree that Sir Andrew does seem to have his own logic and it is not agreeable with Sir Toby Belch's logic or what the doctors say is healthy about getting up early in the morning. To Sir Andrew he believes that staying up late is just that, staying up late, whereas Sir Toby Belch believes that is early morning. Sir Andrew does not care nor does he pay any attention to what the conquences may be, he only wishes to be drink booze and eat food, going to bed late, is simply going to bed late, he knows not of its health benefit.
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I believe that Sir Andrew doesn't see a point in going to bed at a certain time or waking up early because the only thing his day really consists of is eating and drinking. He has not made much of himself and he, like his friend, Sir Toby is very rambunctious. I don't really see why Sir Toby is trying to put logic into Sir Andrew's mind because frankly he doesn't have the credibility to be preaching about a topic.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy Sir Toby Belch's take on this much better because it is kind of care free how it does not worry him about staying up late or not. To him it does not matter, as Tara said above me, his day consists of mostly drinking. Sir Toby really has very little to actually be responsible for or to worry about. He is care free and just wants to drink all of the time. This is a reason why the argument is sort of point less in a way because nothing truly happens with these people that they need to be sober for, all of their activities in the play consist of foolery and obviously being drunk. They are the free spirits in the play.
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