1. The data I retrieved from the Shakespeare concordance on music was found in Act I, Scenes I, II, Act II, Scenes III, IV, Act 3, Scene I and Act 5, Scene I. The theme Shakespeare employs with music is love and how love is blinding. Music is able to stir emotional feelings in persons. Music is powerful with its lyrics, tune and melody. Duke Orsino states in the beginning of Act I, Scene I that "If music be the food of love, play on;" This quote shows music's ability to create feelings in human beings.
2. The data I retrieved supports my first thoughts on Shakespeare's obsessive use of a particular image in that the theme of music stays constant throughout the play. Shakespeare carries similar themes and images in his plays. Shakespeare's figuration is repetitive in order to get certain points and images across to the reader. He writes all his figurations to have meanings.
3. The thematic strand I have located is music-sing-song-tune.
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add to this theme: harmony, melody, concord, discord... Who is making peace or harmony in TwN? Who is disruptive? And why? Who will bring back harmony to Illyria? And how long will it last?
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Try: I have observed that Sh. is obsessed with music of all forms in TwN. What is music? What happens on TwN? Is this play more musical than other plays? Does the genre of the comedy need music?
According to other posts ;) music is used to make fun of the characters and to make fools of them all, how ironic no? The Fool sings a lot to the characters, yet he is not really the foolish one...
ReplyDeleteI love what Lita has added here. Music is taunting and deriding, uyes!
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