Monday, February 22, 2010
"Then Think you right" FFW (III.i.148-9)
Viola says "Then think you right." "I am not what I am." which we know to mean that she is a woman and not a man so she is hinting to Olivia. Olivia's response is interesting "I would you were as I would have you be" because Olivia wants him to be what she wants him to be, she is falling in love with him but she would like him to be what she is dreaming of. Olivia wants a man who is more of nobility not someone who works for someone else. In the next line Viola says that right now he is a big fool. He feels that it would be better to be what Olivia wants him to be rather then what he is. They are both playing off of each other but Viola knows that it can never be what Olivia is dreaming of, Olivia is not aware of the deception before her.
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"He feels that it would be better to be what Olivia wants him to be rather then what he is." What you said here I find very interesting because it seems that Viola is toying with Olivia in a way by telling her that he is not what she wants without out right saying that she in in fact a woman. It seems that Viola thinks things would go easier if she was what Olivia wanted, a man, but since she is obviously not this, then he is nervous about how this will all work out. I find this entire passage between Olivia and Viola to be one of the most interesting in the play because there is so much deception on one end, which effects the entire play.
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