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Twelfth Night · 2012 — 第 6 / 25 章 · 3'34" · C2

Olivia Refuses the Duke's Suit, Explained：the dead of night

Cesario brings Orsino's love and finds Olivia unmoved. She turns the praise back on the messenger with a joke: "I see you what you are. You are too proud." Her answer is flat and final — "I cannot love him" — yet she cannot stop listening, and asks the young man to come again.

あらすじ

Cesario delivers Duke Orsino's compliments to Olivia, calling her cruel for hiding her beauty from the world. Olivia refuses the suit firmly: 'I cannot love him.' Undeterred, Cesario describes what he would do if he loved her — build a willow cabin at her gate, sing all night, and call her name to the hills. Olivia is moved but still sends him back to his lord.

Confessing feelingsProposalsConfessing loveSaying noStrangersC2slowbritishClean
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two lipsdivers scheduleshard heartedand so forth

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このシーンの表現

the dead of night

the stillest hours of night

Cesario imagines singing love poems aloud in the deepest quiet of night.

The alarm went off in the dead of night and woke the whole street.

このシーンの他の表現

  • two lips

    lips; a pun on tulips

  • divers schedules

    various lists

  • hard hearted

    cold and unfeeling

  • and so forth

    and so on

  • of great estate

    of high rank and wealth

このシーンのメモ一覧

51 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B1red and white

red and white tones

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white nature's own sweet and cunning high and laid on.
文法 · C2whose red and white

relative clause: The 'whose' clause tells us what nature mixed into that beauty.

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white nature's own sweet and cunning high and laid on.
表現 · C2the cruellest ... alive

the cruellest woman alive

Lady, you are the cruellest she alive
表現 · B2be hard hearted

cold and unfeeling

Called beautiful and cruel at once, Olivia half-teasingly denies being heartless.

Oh, sir, I will not be so hard hearted.
表現 · B1give out something

to hand out or issue

I will give out divers schedules of my beauty.
表現 · B1and so forth

and so on

Olivia trails off her joke inventory with a throwaway 'and so forth'.

Item... one neck, one chin, and so forth.
表現 · C1lord and master

one's lord and husband

My lord and master loves you.
表現 · C1of great estate

of high rank and wealth

Olivia grants Orsino noble birth and wealth before repeating her refusal.

Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth,
文法 · C1of fresh and stainless youth

parallel phrases: Chained 'of' phrases pile up virtues in one rhythmic sweep.

Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth,
文法 · C2If I did love

subjunctive: Past tense 'did love' frames a hypothetical, not a fact.

If I did love you in my master's flame with
表現 · C1a willow cabin

a hut of willow branches

Make me a willow cabin at your gate and call upon my soul within the house,
表現 · B2call upon someone

to call out to someone

Make me a willow cabin at your gate and call upon my soul within the house,
表現 · B2in the dead of night

the stillest hours of night

Cesario imagines singing love poems aloud in the deepest quiet of night.

write loyal cantons of contemned love and sing them loud even in the dead of night,
表現 · A2pity someone

to take pity on me

Oh, you should not rest between the elements of air and Earth, but you should pity me.
発音elements of air

Run 'elements of' together and link the v into 'air'.

Oh, you should not rest between the elements of air and Earth, but you should pity me.
表現 · B2someone's parentage

your lineage

What... what is your parentage?
表現 · B2how someone takes something

how he reacts to it

to... to tell me how he takes it.
発音thank you

In speech 'thank you' often blends into 'thankya'.

I thank you for your pains.
表現 · B1spend something for someone

to spend this on my behalf

Here, spend this for me.
表現 · C2a heart of flint

a merciless, unyielding heart

Refused and stung, Cesario wishes a flint-hearted love on Olivia in return.

Love make his heart of flint that you shall love
文法 · C1like my master's

parenthetical: The inserted comparison 'like my master's' links the two men's passion.

and let your fervour, like my master's, be placed in contempt.
発音fair cruelty

Stress both words so the contradiction lands.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

「Olivia Refuses the Duke's Suit」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene turns a formal courtship into something more interesting: a refusal that isn't quite a refusal. Olivia lists Orsino's virtues at length — noble, wealthy, young, brave — and then cancels them all with one line: "But yet, I cannot love him." She is not playing hard to get; she means it. What changes the temperature is Cesario's speech about the willow cabin, where love becomes singing all night and calling a name to the hills. It is poetic, a little theatrical, and clearly not about Orsino at all — Cesario is imagining devotion itself. Olivia hears it and immediately softens, inventing a reason to see the messenger again. The comedy and the romance both sit in the gap between the polished embassy and the real feelings underneath it.

Theme

RomanceCesario's willow-cabin speech is more passionate than the message he was sent to deliver, and Olivia responds to it.
IdentityViola speaks of love for a woman while dressed as a man, so every line means two things at once.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A flat refusal can still sound graceful.
  • 'Two lips' quietly doubles as 'tulips'.
  • Concession first, verdict second: a persuasive arc.
  • Dead of night and willow cabin: Elizabethan texture.

発音のポイント

  • elements of air — Run 'elements of' together and link the v into 'air'.
  • thank you — In speech 'thank you' often blends into 'thankya'.
  • fair cruelty — Stress both words so the contradiction lands.
But if you were the devil, you are fair.

Cesario admits Olivia is beautiful even if she is proud: her looks win even when her character is suspect.

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white nature's own sweet and cunning high and laid on.

A courtly compliment: her beauty looks mixed by nature itself, not painted on, which is the highest praise in this play.

Oh, you should not rest between the elements of air and Earth, but you should pity me.

Cesario's dramatic plea: he swears she will find no peace until she takes pity on him.

Oh, such love could be but recompense though you were crowned the nonpareil of beauty.

He says even if she were crowned the most beautiful woman alive, Orsino's love would be only what she deserves.

Lady, you are the cruellest she alive

A flirtatious accusation: by refusing to love and marry, she wastes her beauty on the grave instead of passing it on.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Olivia refuse Orsino?

She simply does not love him, no matter how noble or wealthy he is. She lists his good qualities and then says plainly, 'But yet, I cannot love him.'

What is the willow cabin speech about?

Cesario imagines how he would woo Olivia if he were the suitor: a willow cabin at her gate, songs all night, and her name shouted to the hills.

What does "the dead of night" mean?

It means the deepest, quietest part of the night. Cesario says he would sing 'even in the dead of night,' meaning he would not stop or hide his devotion.

Why does Olivia change her mind about the messenger?

Cesario's passionate speech moves her. She invents an excuse to see him again, asking him to return and tell her how Orsino takes the refusal.

Why does Olivia offer Cesario money?

She tries to reward him for his trouble, but he refuses, saying his master, not he, is the one who deserves reward.

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