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Twelfth Night · 2012 — 第 4 / 25 章 · 3'42" · C1

Feste Proves Olivia a Fool, Explained：wear not motley in my brain

Feste trades insults with his mistress and wins. Called a 'dry fool,' he answers with a Latin tag and a claim: "I wear not motley in my brain." Then he proves Olivia the real fool for mourning a brother whose soul is already in heaven. "The more fool, madonna..."

あらすじ

At Olivia's house, the fool Feste arrives to entertain her but is dismissed as 'a dry fool.' He protests that a fool's coat does not mean a foolish brain, and offers to prove that Olivia herself is the fool. Asked why she mourns, she says for her brother's death; Feste answers that she is the more foolish for grieving a soul already in heaven.

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このシーンの表現

dry fool

a dull fool, and a thirsty one

Olivia calls Feste a dry fool, and he seizes the word to ask for drink to cure it.

Three hours of small talk left him a dry fool with nothing to say.

このシーンの他の表現

  • motley

    the fool's patchwork costume

  • catechise

    to question closely

  • barren rascal

    a worthless scoundrel

  • self-love

    excessive love of oneself

  • bird-bolts

    small arrows; trifles

このシーンのメモ一覧

72 行のセリフに 17 件のメモ

表現 · C1a dry fool

a dull, thirsty fool

Go to, you're a dry fool.
発音you're a dry fool

Squeeze you're into a weak sound and land hard on dry.

Go to, you're a dry fool.
表現 · B2have no more of someone

to be done with someone

I'll no more of you.
表現 · B2good counsel

sound advice

To faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will a amend.
表現 · C1mend oneself

to reform oneself

And bid the dishonest man mend himself.
文法 · B2Anything that's mended

subject relative clause: The clause that's mended narrows Anything to whatever has been repaired before the verdict lands.

Anything that's mended is but patched.
表現 · C1what remedy?

what can be done

If it will not, what remedy?
表現 · B2in the highest degree

to the utmost degree

Misprision in the highest degree, lady.
表現 · C2wear motley in one's brain

to keep one's mind clear

That's as much to say as I wear not motley in my brain.
スラング · C1motley

the fool's costume — A stage word for the jester's suit, now mostly literary.

That's as much to say as I wear not motley in my brain.
表現 · C1give me leave to do something

let me be allowed to do something

Good, madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.
表現 · C2for want of something

for lack of something better

Well, sir for want of other idleness, I'll bide your proof.
表現 · C1the pangs of something

the throes of death

And shall do until the pangs of death shake him.
表現 · C1no more X than Y

as mindless as a thing can be

I saw him put down the other day with an ordinary fool that has no more brains than a stone.
表現 · B2off/out of one's guard

caught off guard

He's out of his guard already.
表現 · B2be sick of something

ill with too much of something

Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite.
表現 · B1nothing but something

only, and nothing else

He speaks nothing but madman.

「Feste Proves Olivia a Fool」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a contest, and the fool wins it by refusing to be the fool. Olivia opens with an insult — 'you're a dry fool' — and Feste answers by separating costume from mind: 'I wear not motley in my brain.' His proof is a piece of verbal jujitsu: if her brother's soul is in heaven, then mourning him is the real folly, and the fool is the one doing the grieving. Olivia, to her credit, enjoys being beaten. The second half turns the same razor on Malvolio, who sneers at Feste as a 'barren rascal' and is told he is 'sick of self-love, and taste with a distempered appetite.' The wit isn't decoration; it is how the low character gets to speak truth to the high ones, and the play says so outright: 'There is no slander in an allowed fool.'

Theme

IdentityFeste separates his fool's costume from his mind: 'I wear not motley in my brain.'
PrideMalvolio's self-love makes him sneer at the fool, and Olivia tells him so.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Dry means thirsty and dull, and the fool uses both.
  • Feste proves the lady a fool with tidy mock logic.
  • Motley is the fool's suit; his brain wears none of it.
  • Bird-bolts and cannon bullets measure the same words.

発音のポイント

  • you're a dry fool — Squeeze you're into a weak sound and land hard on dry.
Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make a better fool.

Feste's paradox: sickness that wears out a wise man only improves a fool, so Malvolio should welcome it.

The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven.

His proof that Olivia is the fool: grieving someone already in heaven is the real folly.

There is no slander in an allowed fool,

Olivia's defense of Feste: a licensed fool may say anything without it counting as slander.

Good, madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

Feste asks permission to prove that Olivia herself is the fool, setting up the contest.

I know his soul is in heaven, fool.

Olivia's answer to Feste's bait; it is the line he then turns against her.

このシーンについての質問

How does Feste prove Olivia is the fool?

He asks why she mourns; she says for her brother's death. He replies that if the brother's soul is in heaven, mourning him is the real folly — 'the more fool' is the one who grieves.

Why does Olivia call Feste a 'dry fool'?

Dry can mean dull or, literally, lacking drink. She is dismissing his wit as flat, and he turns the word into a joke about giving the fool a drink.

What does 'I wear not motley in my brain' mean?

Motley is a fool's patchwork costume. Feste says that wearing the outfit does not make his mind foolish — he is only dressed as a fool.

Why does Olivia defend Feste against Malvolio?

Malvolio calls Feste a 'barren rascal' and says a duller fool once out-talked him. Olivia answers that Malvolio is 'sick of self-love' and takes no pleasure in anything not his own.

What is Malvolio's complaint about the fool?

He thinks Feste is a worthless scold who only shines when others laugh and feed him lines. Without an audience, he says, the fool is 'gagged.'

Twelfth Night · 全 25 章

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