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Twelfth Night · 2012 — 第 10 / 25 章 · 3'35" · C2

Orsino Muses on Love, Explained：sweet pangs

Orsino tries to describe what love does to a person — "unstaid and skittish in all motions else" — and then decides his young servant must be in love too. His theory hardens into a sad maxim: "For women are as roses whose fair flower being once displayed, doth fall that very hour." Then he calls for an old song.

あらすじ

Duke Orsino calls Cesario close and talks about love: true lovers are restless and changeable except in the fixed image of the beloved. He guesses that Cesario's eye has already rested on someone, and when the servant admits a little, Orsino argues women are like roses that fall the hour they bloom. He then asks for an old, plain song.

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sweet pangsthe seat where love is thronedMy life upon'tan elder than herself

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このシーンの表現

sweet pangs

sweet pain; bittersweet ache

The duke asks the boy to remember him in love's sweet pangs.

She spoke of sweet pangs and first love with a smile.

このシーンの他の表現

  • the seat where love is throned

    the throne where love reigns

  • My life upon't

    I would bet my life on it

  • an elder than herself

    someone older than herself

  • doth fall that very hour

    falls that same hour

  • silly sooth

    simple, honest truth

このシーンのメモ一覧

42 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

表現 · B2come hither

come here

Come hither, boy.
表現 · C2the sweet pangs of something

sweet pain; bittersweet ache

The duke asks the boy to remember him in love's sweet pangs.

If ever thou shalt love, in the sweet pangs of it, remember me.
発音pangs of it

Link the three words into one run: pangs-of-it.

If ever thou shalt love, in the sweet pangs of it, remember me.
表現 · C2unstaid and skittish

fickle and skittish

unstaid and skittish in all motions else save in the constant image of the creature that is beloved.
表現 · C2the constant image of someone

the unchanging image of the beloved

unstaid and skittish in all motions else save in the constant image of the creature that is beloved.
文法 · C2save in the constant image of the creature that is beloved

prepositional phrase: Save means except, marking the one place where the lover stays constant.

unstaid and skittish in all motions else save in the constant image of the creature that is beloved.
表現 · C2the seat where love is throned

the throne where love reigns

Cesario says the tune echoes the very seat where love is throned.

It gives a very echo to the seat where love is throned.
表現 · C1have stayed upon something

to have lingered on something

My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye hath stayed upon some favour that it loves.
発音upon't

Swallow the t in upon't, leaving a clipped ending.

My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye hath stayed upon some favour that it loves.
表現 · C1by your favour

if you will allow me

A little, by your favour.
表現 · B2of someone's complexion

of your kind or colouring

Of your complexion.
表現 · C1take an elder than oneself

someone older than herself

The duke repeats an old rule that a woman should marry an older man.

Let still the woman take an elder than herself or so wears she to him so sways she level in her husband's heart.
文法 · C2so wears she to him so sways she level

inversion: The inverted so-clauses put the verbs first, making a balanced, old-fashioned rhythm.

Let still the woman take an elder than herself or so wears she to him so sways she level in her husband's heart.
表現 · C2hold the bent

to keep the tension or aim

Then let my love be younger than thyself, or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
文法 · C2or thy affection cannot hold the bent

conditional or: The or-clause states the penalty: otherwise your affection will lose its tension.

Then let my love be younger than thyself, or thy affection cannot hold the bent.
表現 · C2being once displayed

once shown or displayed

For women are as roses whose fair flower being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
文法 · C2whose fair flower being once displayed

absolute construction: The whose-clause carries an absolute 'being' phrase, tying bloom and fall to one moment.

For women are as roses whose fair flower being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
表現 · C2grow to perfection

to grow to full perfection

to die even when they to perfection grow.
表現 · B1old and plain

old and plain

It is old and plain.
表現 · C2silly sooth

simple, honest truth

The duke calls the old song plain truth that plays with love's innocence.

it is silly sooth and dallies with the innocence of love,
表現 · C1dally with something

to toy with something

it is silly sooth and dallies with the innocence of love,
表現 · B2be slain by someone

to be killed by someone

I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
発音fair cruel

Stress both fair and cruel so the contradiction is heard.

I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
表現 · C2stuck all with something

stuck all over with yew

My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, my shroud of white,

「Orsino Muses on Love」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene reveals Orsino's idea of love more than it advances the plot. He speaks of lovers as unstable creatures fixed only on one image — 'unstaid and skittish in all motions else' — which is a fair description of himself. Then he turns the talk into an argument about age and sex: women fade like roses, so a wife should marry an older man. It is beautiful and a little self-serving, and Viola, who is secretly in love with him, can only agree and tease. When the song comes, its refrain — 'I am slain by a fair cruel maid' — says exactly what the disguised Viola cannot: that love can wound and even kill the one who feels it. The poetry covers an ache the character dares not speak aloud.

Theme

RomanceOrsino theorizes about love while Viola, in disguise, listens and cannot confess her own feelings.
IdentityViola must answer questions about love as a boy servant, hiding that she is both a woman and in love.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Sweet pangs names love's ache and delight together.
  • Women are as roses: bloom and fall in one hour.
  • By your favour is a soft, old way to ask leave.
  • The duke talks of love while fishing for secrets.

発音のポイント

  • pangs of it — Link the three words into one run: pangs-of-it.
  • upon't — Swallow the t in upon't, leaving a clipped ending.
  • fair cruel — Stress both fair and cruel so the contradiction is heard.
If ever thou shalt love, in the sweet pangs of it, remember me.

Orsino asks Cesario to remember him if love ever hurts that sweetly. It's his way of claiming he understands love best.

For women are as roses whose fair flower being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

His sad maxim: women's beauty blooms and fades at once, which he uses to justify preferring a younger wife.

I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

The song's refrain, meaning a beautiful, unkind woman has broken his heart. It voices the longing Viola cannot speak.

Or such as I am, all true lovers are...

Orsino claims that all true lovers behave as he does, making his own restlessness the model of love itself.

Oh, she is not worth thee then.

A teasing line: since the woman Cesario loves is the same age as Orsino, he jokes that she cannot be good enough for him.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Orsino talk to Cesario about love?

He treats Cesario as a confidant and enjoys discussing love. At the same time he suspects the young servant is in love, so he turns the talk into gentle probing.

What does Orsino think about women and age?

He argues that women are like roses, blooming and fading quickly, so a woman should marry an older man and a man should choose a younger wife. It is his own theory, not the play's truth.

What does "sweet pangs" mean?

It means the bittersweet ache of love, the pleasure and pain mixed together. Orsino uses it to describe the feeling of falling in love.

What song does Orsino ask for?

An old, plain song that the spinning maids used to sing. It is the mournful 'Come away, death,' which Feste performs and which fits Orsino's lovesick mood.

Why does the song matter to Viola?

Its refrain, 'I am slain by a fair cruel maid,' expresses the hidden love and pain Viola cannot say aloud while disguised as a boy.

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