The world is a crazy place, anyone can be crazy. In fact, the average person walks by 36 murders in their life time? So, in perspective how many unstable people have walked near you in this lifetime? As examined in twelfth night the characters themselves live in a society that accepts actions that are abnormal. Such as proposing to someone they barely know. Olivia reminds most to be the girl who doesn’t think things through, which is most girls that have been encountered in everyone’s life, may it be family or ‘friends’. When Olivia asks Sebastian, who she thinks is Cesario in Act IV, Scene III ‘’Now go with me and with this holy man into the chantry by: there, before him and underneath that consecrated roof, plight me the full assurance of
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“O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame to pay this debt of love but to a brother, how will she love, when the rich golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else that live in her, when liver, brain, and heart…” (Shakespeare I.I.32-40). He’s crazy in love with Olivia, he doesn’t seem to get the hint that she doesn’t love him back, so he keeps trying, hoping to one day win her love and she’ll show him love and affection like how she did with her brother. In Act 3, Scene 4 Olivia asks Maria to fetch Malvolio to advise her Maria replies that Malvolio seems to have gone mad, for he does nothing but smile. But she sends Maria to fetch him anyway, Olivia then remarks that she herself feels just “as mad as he, if sad and merry madness equals be” (Shakespeare 3.4.14-5). Olivia’s continued obsession with Cesario, and her private remark that she is suffering from “sad and merry madness,” show her love- melancholy approaching the intensity of Orsino’s- and perhaps even exceeding it. Another one of Shakespeare’s plays would be King Lear: Madness, the Fool and Poor …show more content…
“O, that this is too sullied flesh would melt / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew / Or that the everlasting had not fixed / His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O god, god / How weary, slate, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world! (Shakespeare 1.2.133-8). In this part of the scene people can obviously tell that he’s moaning about how depressed he is over his father’s death and mom’s remarriage, and wishing that his ‘flesh’ would ‘melt’ that he’d die. In the next scene he’s ‘seen’ talking to his friends Horatio and Marcellus about how he’s going to pretend to become ‘mad’, “To put an antic disposition on / That you, at such times seeing me, never shall / With arms encumbered thus, or his headshake / Or by proposing of some doubtful phrase / As well, we know, or would could, and if we would, / Or if we list to speak, or there be, and if they might / Or such ambiguous giving out, to note / That you know aught of me this do swear” (Shakespeare 1.5.168-180). What he’s saying is that if he seems crazy and says anything that doesn’t seem like something he would say, to just go along with it. Whatever happens to him that ‘you know aught of me’. He makes them swear and from there we find that Hamlet plans to act ‘mad’ for his revenge plan to
“O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame to pay this debt of love but to a brother, how will she love, when the rich golden shaft hath killed the flock of all affections else that live in her, when liver, brain, and heart…” (Shakespeare I.I.32-40). He’s crazy in love with Olivia, he doesn’t seem to get the hint that she doesn’t love him back, so he keeps trying, hoping to one day win her love and she’ll show him love and affection like how she did with her brother. In Act 3, Scene 4 Olivia asks Maria to fetch Malvolio to advise her Maria replies that Malvolio seems to have gone mad, for he does nothing but smile. But she sends Maria to fetch him anyway, Olivia then remarks that she herself feels just “as mad as he, if sad and merry madness equals be” (Shakespeare 3.4.14-5). Olivia’s continued obsession with Cesario, and her private remark that she is suffering from “sad and merry madness,” show her love- melancholy approaching the intensity of Orsino’s- and perhaps even exceeding it. Another one of Shakespeare’s plays would be King Lear: Madness, the Fool and Poor …show more content…
“O, that this is too sullied flesh would melt / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew / Or that the everlasting had not fixed / His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O god, god / How weary, slate, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world! (Shakespeare 1.2.133-8). In this part of the scene people can obviously tell that he’s moaning about how depressed he is over his father’s death and mom’s remarriage, and wishing that his ‘flesh’ would ‘melt’ that he’d die. In the next scene he’s ‘seen’ talking to his friends Horatio and Marcellus about how he’s going to pretend to become ‘mad’, “To put an antic disposition on / That you, at such times seeing me, never shall / With arms encumbered thus, or his headshake / Or by proposing of some doubtful phrase / As well, we know, or would could, and if we would, / Or if we list to speak, or there be, and if they might / Or such ambiguous giving out, to note / That you know aught of me this do swear” (Shakespeare 1.5.168-180). What he’s saying is that if he seems crazy and says anything that doesn’t seem like something he would say, to just go along with it. Whatever happens to him that ‘you know aught of me’. He makes them swear and from there we find that Hamlet plans to act ‘mad’ for his revenge plan to