Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Act V

Fabian tells the fool he wants to see the letter he wrote to Olivia but he wont show it to him. Orisino the lords, viola, and Curio enter. The offcers that are with them tell them to bring in antonio. Orisino calls him a pirate, but Olivia stickks up for Antonio because Antonio helped Olivia fight off Sir Andrew and Sir Toby. Antonio starts to yell about Cesario complaing why he has had to stay with him for 3 months and ranting about him not being grateful of being rescued. Olivia enters and Orsino says that he is in love with her. She says she doesnt love him back and tells him she wants to marry Cesario. Olivia gets a priest to come in to prove that she is bethrothed with Orsino. The sirs come in bleeding and say that Cesario has beaten them up, but he refuses. The lords, Orsino, Curio and Cesario exit to clean up the blood and wounds. Viola finally reveals who she truly is and Sebation tells Olivia that he loves her. Orsino likes that Cesario is a woman and wants to marry her. Mavalio says Olivia has been untruthful to him, he gives her the letter and says it was Marias handwriting. Fabian tells them all that they played the prank, Mavalio is not happy and says he will get them back. Orsino wants to marry Olivia. The scene is ended by the fool singing to a song.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Act 4

Sir Andrew and Sebastian get into a little quarrel and then things get heated and Sir Andrew attacks Sebastian. Sir Andrew is surprised when he finds Sebastian beating him. Sir Toby then comes along and draws a sword on Sebastian. Right as he does that Olivia walks in and yells at Sir Toby to stop. When Sebastian sees Olivia for the first time he seem like he is attracted to her instantly, but she has no idea. Olivia persuades Sebastian and tells him that he should marry her. Sir Toby has got Malvolio captured and in prison and won’t let him go. There first intent was to hurt Olivia by the letter but now Sir Toby feels bad so he asked Malvolio to write a letter to Olivia explaining that he was joking about the letter and it was his fault.

Act 3

Scene one starts out as the Clown and Viola having a lengthy argument. However, when Olivia enters the scene and Viola, disguised as Caesario, goes to give Olivia a message, Olivia tells Caesario that she has fallen for him/her.
Scene two is a short conversation between Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew, and Fabian. Sir Toby Belch, jealous of Caesario, convinces Sir Andrew to challenge Caesario to a duel. However, Maria enters the scene, informing the gentleman that Malivio has "turned heathen."
Scene three turns to Sebastian and Antonio who has a short conversation on the money Sebatian borrowed from Antonio, and plans to give it back at a later hour.
in Scene four, Olivia calls for Malivio, but Maria warns her that he has "gone mad." However, Malivio is only following the instructions of the "love letter" which Maria forged. Nevertheless, when Olivia sees Malivio, Malivio starts quoting from the "letter" and Olivia thinks he is a gigantic queer. Furthermore, when Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew enters the scene, they think he has gone insane too. In addition, when Viola/Caesario shows up, she is challenged to a duel, however, Antonio, thinking that Caesario is Sebastian, offers to take her place. However, the guards see this a piracy and arrests him. Nonetheless, when he is being dragged away, he says to Viola to give him back his money, but Viola, not knowing what he means, says she does not know anything about it. Viola, hearing Sebatian's name, thinks that Antonio must have met Sebastian and her hopes begin to rise.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Act 2

Sebastian believes that both his parents and his sister have died. He is being taken care of by Antonio in Illyria. Sebastian feels that is now time to wonder off on his own but Antonio wants nothing more than to go with him. Sebastian tries and tries to convince him that he shall go alone because he doesn’t want his bad luck to brush off, but Antonio believes none of it. Antonio feels so strongly towards Sebastian that he decides no words can change his mind, he is going to accompany him.
Cesarios ring is returned to him, but he is confused because they say it’s from Olivia’s house, yet he does not remember leaving it there. Malvolio also wanted to make sure that Cesario knew that by Olivia giving the ring back it meant that Olivia doesn’t love him (actually a girl).  In the end Cesario realizes that Olivia actually loves him and that this is a sign. Cesario thinks that Olivia can do much better than a girl pretending to be a guy.
Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Feste de Clown were having a few drinks and becoming very loud. Maria tells them that is in their best interest if they quite down unless they want Malvolio mad. The men don’t listen to her advice and when Malvolio arrives and gets mad saying he will surely tell Olivia of this rudeness. The men and Maria decide to write a letter to Malvolio saying how much Olivia is really in love with him just so he will be humiliated.
Sir Andrew and Toby sit and drink some more and plan out how they will hide and then watch Malvolio open the letter. The next day the men hide and watch him open the letter so they are sure that he feels that Olivia is in love with him. He wears bright yellow clothing and is rude to the kinsmen because that is what the letter that Maria forged said to do. He looks like a fool when he does all this in front of Olivia because she actually hates when men do that they just wanted him to look like a fool.