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A summary of all the best ideas from Twelfth NIGHT- EXAMINER IDEAS FROM THE MARK SCHEMES
A summary of all of the best, perceptive ideas drawn from AQA mark schemes, highlighting the best ideas to be used in essays
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Love The ending- Orsino is a satirical version of the Petrarchan lover - Hilarious fun is caused when misbehaviour and trickery go
- Audiences’ uncomfortable reaction to Viola’s betrothal – final confrontation scene where Malvolio storms off stage a
comic moment is enjoyed
the apparent joy experienced by Viola is not a satisfying - The play shows the shortcomings and cruelty of trickery – i
ending as the audience see that she is marrying a man limits of comedy and suggests that, at times, comic actions
who only knows her as a disguised eunuch rather than her watch
- Viola’s upward mobility and securing of a new life is cause f
true self and satisfaction – the status and position of Orsino suggest
- The love supposedly felt by Orsino for Olivia is superficial long-term future is secure and signifies the traditionally upl
given his subsequent attraction to Viola ending
- Viola’s release from her disguise causes joyful relief for her
- The attraction Olivia feels for Viola is based on a fleeting - Audiences’ uncomfortable reaction to Viola’s betrothal – th
meeting and a superficial physical connection experienced by Viola is not a satisfying ending as the audie
- The rapidity of the two main pairings at the end suggest is marrying a man who only knows her as a disguised eunuc
that there is little depth to the unions, leading the her true self
- The lingering issue over Viola’s clothing and Malvolio’s hold
audience to suspect that little long-term satisfaction will Captain symbolises her ongoing entrapment in her former r
occur shadow over any apparent joy
- Rather than being a superficial and unsatisfactory - The rapidity of two main pairings at the end suggest that th
depth to the unions, leading the audience to suspect that li
experience, the play celebrates the power, depth and satisfaction will occur
happy madness of love through the way it transforms - Although Olivia and Sebastian’s union is rapid, it brings them
Olivia satisfaction and security from their previous problems
- Although Olivia and Sebastian’s union is rapid, it brings - Feste’s song, the final words in the play, is deep
them both satisfaction and security from their previous pessimistic and reveals the disappointment of l
problems undercuts the superficial celebrations in the fin
, Orsino Viola Malvolio
- Orsino is a satirical version of the - Viola’s upward mobility and securing of a new - The sadism of the dark room
life is cause for genuine happiness and funny given Malvolio’s sufferi
Petrarchan lover satisfaction – the status and position of Orsino - Malvolio’s desperation and pl
- Orsino’s inability to see through suggests that Viola’s long-term future is secure beyond laughter
Viola’s disguise sets him up as dim and signifies the traditionally uplifting comedic - The actions of Feste towards
and a figure of fun in the audience’s ending sadistic
- Viola’s release from her disguise causes joyful -
eyes rather than a serious romantic relief for
Malvolio’s desperate attempt
hero - Audiences’ uncomfortable reaction to Viola’s release from the dark room a
watch without sympathy
- Orsino’s supposed victorious betrothal – the apparent joy experienced by
- The sadistic enjoyment which
Viola is not a satisfying ending as the audience
outcome with Viola is due to comic see that she is marrying a man who only knows from his toying with the impr
luck rather than any heroic actions on her as a disguised eunuch rather than her true amounts to psychological tort
his part self provokes pity
- Orsino has attractive masculinity e.g. - The lingering issue over Viola’s clothing and - The humiliation undergone by
Malvolio’s holding of the Captain symbolises her too far – the donning of yello
his previous history as a victorious ongoing entrapment in her former role and casts the public nature of his emba
war hero and threats present him as a shadow over any apparent joy rather than behaviour ceases to be funny
a serious romantic hero offering a satisfying ending - Malvolio’s gulling is comic in n
- The love supposedly felt by Orsino for - Viola’s fortune in finding herself no real threat to life in the da
Olivia is superficial given his favoured by Orsino on results from his and the audience know that g
attraction to her appearance and of comedy, Malvolio’s sufferin
subsequent attraction to Viola youth, which is more to do with luck temporary
than any actions of Viola
- Viola’s actively uses of her professed
talents e.g. her singing voice, charm
and her skill as messenger beguile
Orsino and ultimately win his heart
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