WinkLingo
ログイン

Twelfth Night · 2012 — 第 14 / 25 章 · 3'27" · C2

Feste Spars With Viola About Words, Explained：a corrupter of words

Feste and Viola trade wits before Olivia's house, and words themselves become the subject: a sentence is like a leather glove you can turn inside out. "Words are grown so false," the fool says, "I am loath to prove reason with them." It is a comic duel in which the servant out-talks his betters.

あらすじ

Feste meets Cesario outside Olivia's house and they fence with words. The fool argues that anyone good with language can twist a sentence like a soft glove, until words themselves turn into liars: 'words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.' He denies being a fool and calls himself a corrupter of words, then wheedles coins from Cesario.

TeasingSmall talkTeasingExplainingStrangersC2fastbritishClean
IMDb ↗

注目の表現

live by thy taborcheveril glovethe wrong side turned outwardI saw your wisdom there

00:00 / 03:27
Space 再生 · ← → セリフ移動 · R リピート
いま
  60. ❝ 独白On playing the fool7 行練習ページ ↗
セリフをタップするとそこから再生

このシーンの表現

a corrupter of words

one who bends words

Challenged as a fool, Feste calls himself not a fool but a corrupter of words, turning his trade into a boast.

Every headline writer risks becoming a corrupter of words.

このシーンの他の表現

  • live by thy tabor

    earn a living by your drum

  • cheveril glove

    a soft kid-leather glove

  • the wrong side turned outward

    the seam flipped to the outside

  • I saw your wisdom there

    I noticed your wisdom too

  • as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings

    fools and husbands are near twins

このシーンのメモ一覧

71 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B2live by something

earn from something by means both through and beside here

I live by the church.
発音but a cheveril

Fuse but a into one unstressed beat before cheveril.

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit.
表現 · C1turn something outward

flip to the outside

How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward.
文法 · C2They that dally nicely with words

those-who clause: The older they that stands for those who, framing the subject as a type of person.

They that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.
表現 · C1X are rascals

words are a pack of knaves

But, indeed, words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.
スラング · B2rascals

knaves, scoundrels — Playful insult, fine among friends, not in formal talk.

But, indeed, words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.
表現 · C1grow so + 形容词

have turned this counterfeit

And words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.
スラング · B2I warrant

I'll bet, I daresay — An old conversational bet-marker, common on the period stage.

I warrant thou art a marry fellow and carest for nothing.
表現 · B2make someone invisible

render someone unseen

Now, if that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible.
文法 · C2till she be married

subjunctive till-clause: The bare be marks a future possibility, not a present fact, which is why it sounds formal.

She will keep no fool, sir, till she be married.
表現 · C2as like X as A is to B

fools and husbands are near twins

Feste compares fools to husbands as pilchards to herrings, then adds that the husband is just the bigger fish.

And fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
表現 · C1a corrupter of something

one who bends words

Challenged as a fool, Feste calls himself not a fool but a corrupter of words, turning his trade into a boast.

I'm, indeed, not a fool, sir, but a corrupter of words.
発音about the orb

Link about the together and stress orb on the way out.

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun.
表現 · B2expenses for someone

money for your trouble

Hold, there's expenses for thee.
表現 · B2be sick for something

longing badly for it

I am almost sick for one, though I would not have it grow on my chin.
表現 · B2put something to use

turn it to account

Yes, being kept together and put to use.
表現 · C1well + 过去分词

nicely asked for

'Tis well begged.
表現 · C2out of one's welkin

beyond my own sky

Asked to announce the visitor, Feste shrugs that who the page is and what he wants lie out of his welkin.

Who you are and what you would are out of my welkin.
表現 · C2check at something

pounce on every lure falconry term for a hawk swerving at any lure

and, like the haggard, check at every feather that comes before his eye.
スラング · C2haggard

an untrained wild hawk — Falconry jargon for a wild hawk; here it labels restless wit.

and, like the haggard, check at every feather that comes before his eye.
表現 · C2taint something

spoil their good sense

But wise men, folly fallen, quite taint their wit.
文法 · C2folly fallen

absolute phrase: The absolute phrase adds a condition without a full clause, so folly arrives like a fall.

But wise men, folly fallen, quite taint their wit.

「Feste Spars With Viola About Words」を読み解く

What's really going on

This is the play's wittiest scene about wit itself. Feste refuses to be called a fool, but his defence is a performance: he proves his cleverness by playing with the very words he says he distrusts, comparing a sentence to a 'cheveril glove' that a sharp mind can turn inside out. His line 'words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them' is both a joke and a warning — in a play built on disguise, letters and mistaken identity, language is exactly what cannot be trusted. Viola, who is herself a living deception, hears the joke better than anyone and answers with the scene's best summary: 'This fellow is wise enough to play the fool.' The fool and the disguised woman recognise each other as performers.

Theme

IdentityViola is disguised while the fool talks about words hiding their meaning; both live by playing a role.
PhilosophyThe scene debates whether language can be trusted, and the fool argues words are instruments of deception.

このチャプターで学べること

  • The whole scene runs on words meaning two things at once.
  • Feste wins by refusing to answer straight.
  • The page ends by praising the fool's real wisdom.
  • Even a gate question becomes a duel of wit.

発音のポイント

  • but a cheveril — Fuse but a into one unstressed beat before cheveril.
  • about the orb — Link about the together and stress orb on the way out.
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit.

A clever speaker can stretch and turn any sentence to fit his purpose, like a soft glove that flips inside out.

And words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Feste says language has become so unreliable that he dislikes using it to argue a point.

But wise men, folly fallen, quite taint their wit.

A warning that when intelligent people act foolishly, they ruin their own reputation for sense.

They that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.

Those who toy too cleverly with words will soon make them wild and unreliable — overplaying language corrupts it.

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun.

Foolishness is everywhere, shining on everyone the way the sun circles the earth — nobody is exempt.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Feste say he is not a fool?

He plays the professional fool, but he insists he is not foolish. He calls himself 'a corrupter of words,' meaning his real skill is twisting language rather than being simple-minded.

Why does Feste distrust words?

He says people twist words to mean whatever they want, and since contracts and bonds misuse them, he finds language too false to argue with. That is why he jokes that words are rascals.

What does 'out of my welkin' mean?

Welkin is an old word for the sky, so being 'out of my welkin' means beyond my world or my concern. Feste uses it to say who Cesario is and what he wants are not his business.

Why does Cesario call Feste wise?

Watching the fool joke and dodge, Cesario sees that playing the fool well takes real intelligence. He says the fellow is 'wise enough to play the fool.'

What does Feste do with the coins Cesario gives him?

He jokes about making the money breed by pairing the coins, and plays a literary game about Cressida and Troilus, turning his tip into a performance of begging.

Twelfth Night · 全 25 章

すべて見る →
次のチャプター · 第 15 章I am not what I amOlivia Confesses to Cesario
第 1 章dying fallOrsino's Speech on Music and Love第 2 章word for wordViola Disguises Herself as a Man第 3 章cut a caperSir Andrew Boasts About Dancing第 4 章wear not motley in my brainFeste Proves Olivia a Fool第 5 章fortified against any denialCesario Arrives to Woo Olivia第 6 章the dead of nightOlivia Refuses the Duke's Suit第 7 章could not butSebastian's Story and Olivia's Ring第 8 章make the welkin danceFeste Sings for a Drunken Party第 9 章cakes and aleMalvolio Scolds Sir Toby's Party第 10 章sweet pangsOrsino Muses on Love第 11 章prove much in our vowsViola Argues Women Love as Deeply第 12 章the woodcock near the ginMalvolio Dreams of Marrying Olivia第 13 章have greatness thrust upon themMalvolio Reads Maria's Letter再生中 · 第 14 章a corrupter of wordsFeste Spars With Viola About Words第 15 章I am not what I amOlivia Confesses to Cesario第 16 章laugh yourself into stitchesMaria's Crew Goes to Watch Malvolio第 17 章midsummer madnessMalvolio Appears in Yellow Stockings第 18 章improbable fictionSir Andrew's Challenge Is Read Aloud第 19 章a pox on'tToby Scares Andrew About the Duel第 20 章prove trueAntonio Is Arrested, Viola Hopes第 21 章be well rid ofFeste Torments Malvolio in the Dark第 22 章make an ass of meOlivia Proposes to the Wrong Twin第 23 章ripe in mischiefOlivia Mistakes Sebastian for Cesario第 24 章happy wreckViola and Sebastian Are Revealed第 25 章whirligig of timeMalvolio Swears Revenge on Everyone
第 14 / 25 章 · 残り約 36 分