Question: Where is the data you retrieved found? What is happening in context when Shakespeare employs this particular theme or image?
For our group, we looked up music and related themes in Shakespeare's concordance. Music is mentioned throughout the play, but our first hit was found in I.i. Duke Orsino was talking about music and how he relates it to his love for Olivia. He states that he wants excess of music because it makes him feel good inside.
Question: How does the data you retrieved support your first thoughts on Shakespeare's obsessive use of a particular image? What can you argue about Shakespeare's figuration?
The data that we retrieved supports our first thoughts on Shakespeare's obsessive use of a particular image because he relates most of his phrases about music back to love. We can argue that Shakespeare views music as an expression of feelings of caring and love of another. Music relaxes and brings people together.
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Music is very important in the start of Shakespeare's play because it represents the crazy way that music relates to love and lust. Orsino begins the play relating music to his love for Olivia, but even the music ends sometime, just as his love for Olivia will never be satisfied because it is not real- it is created. The music does make Orsino feel good inside however it is a shallow feeling because when the music stops the feeling will go away, just like his lust for Olivia. Music expresses emotions and can be truely deep and meaningful, however in Illyria nothing is what it seems it should be.
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