Orsino On Love
Foreshadowing and metaphor is used to preface and summarize the theme that love is fickle yet wonderful while also giving showing how fickle and melodramatic.
First Orsino compares music to love very melodramatically when he says “If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die” (1.1.1-3). He is saying music is like love because we overindulge on it in the moment until it sickens us and we don’t want to hear it anymore. He’s saying that if it is true that love is like this then bring it on. He’s saying that even though love is sickening he explain why he wishes that it continued cultivating when he says “That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound” meaning that he is willing to endure the bitterness of one sided love because it is came to him so sweetly in the beginning and he wishes to hear it like that again just as you wish you could hear an overplayed song and have as much joy as you did the first times you listened to it. We also see how fickle he is when he retracts his statement about his love toward Olivia when he says “Enough; no more: Tis not so sweet now as it was before” (1.1,7-8) meaning that he is imagining the fullness of the sickening …show more content…
We see the irony first when he says “O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour” (1.1.5-7) meaning that the love he shows toward Olivia in order to capture the sweetness of Olivia’s love is overlooking Viola and casually picking up the sweetness of her love, Viola being the the “bank of Violets” and “odor” being her sweetness. This foreshadows how fickle Orsino is with his love because here he says how he wants the sweetness of of Olivia’s love but is given Viola’s instead which he accepts which is what happens later in the
First Orsino compares music to love very melodramatically when he says “If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die” (1.1.1-3). He is saying music is like love because we overindulge on it in the moment until it sickens us and we don’t want to hear it anymore. He’s saying that if it is true that love is like this then bring it on. He’s saying that even though love is sickening he explain why he wishes that it continued cultivating when he says “That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound” meaning that he is willing to endure the bitterness of one sided love because it is came to him so sweetly in the beginning and he wishes to hear it like that again just as you wish you could hear an overplayed song and have as much joy as you did the first times you listened to it. We also see how fickle he is when he retracts his statement about his love toward Olivia when he says “Enough; no more: Tis not so sweet now as it was before” (1.1,7-8) meaning that he is imagining the fullness of the sickening …show more content…
We see the irony first when he says “O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour” (1.1.5-7) meaning that the love he shows toward Olivia in order to capture the sweetness of Olivia’s love is overlooking Viola and casually picking up the sweetness of her love, Viola being the the “bank of Violets” and “odor” being her sweetness. This foreshadows how fickle Orsino is with his love because here he says how he wants the sweetness of of Olivia’s love but is given Viola’s instead which he accepts which is what happens later in the