| Act
IV & V Questions |
| Give thorough, detailed answers for each. Use
specific examples or quotations from the play to illustrate your points
and focus your answers. |
| 1. Analyze Shakespeare’s use of irony in Twelfth
Night. Be sure to discuss humor and dramatic irony but also how irony
represents the central problem of the play: the discrepancy between appearance
and reality and the fact that the Duke is fooled by appearances despite
many powerful clues to the reality. 2. Define the term foil. Choose a foil from the play and analyze the two characters. 3. Analyze Feste’s role in the play. Be sure to discuss the power of words as you analyze Feste. |