TN, Act 5 Synthesis Exercise | 1
Name:__________________________
Date:______________
Twelfth Night, Act 5: Synthesis Exercise
Directions: Annotate both Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 20” and each passage from Twelfth Night. Subsequent to annotating both texts, analyze them based
upon each question. For each response, compose a topic sentence that allows the reader to understand your argument. You will share your responses
with your classmates. You will also record your classmates’ responses. You must use textual evidence from both Twelfth Night and “Sonnet 20.”
1.
SONNET 20
VIOLA
A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
If nothing lets to make us happy both
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
But this my masculine usurp'd attire,
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
Do not embrace me till each circumstance
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
That I am Viola: which to confirm,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
I'll bring you to a captain in this town,
A man in hue, all hues in his controlling,
Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help
Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
I was preserved to serve this noble count.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
All the occurrence of my fortune since
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, 10
Hath been between this lady and this lord. (V.i.245-54)
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. (1-14)
TN, Act 5 Synthesis Exercise | 2
How might the perception of gender play an integral role in both of these passages? Why?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ideas learned from classmates:
TN, Act 5 Synthesis Exercise | 3
2.
DUKE ORSINO
…[To VIOLA]
Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.
SONNET 20
A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
VIOLA
And all those sayings will I overswear;
And those swearings keep as true in soul
As doth that orbed continent the fire
That severs day from night.
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
DUKE ORSINO
Give me thy hand;
And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.
Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
VIOLA
The captain that did bring me first on shore
Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action
Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,
A gentleman, and follower of my lady's. (V.i.255-73)
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all hues in his controlling,
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, 10
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. (1-14)
TN, Act 5 Synthesis Exercise | 4
How might Duke Orsino and the speaker of “Sonnet 20” share similar conflicts? Why?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ideas learned from classmates:
TN, Act 5 Synthesis Exercise | 5
3.
DUKE ORSINO
[To FABIAN]
Pursue him and entreat him to a peace:
[Exit FABIAN]
He hath not told us of the captain yet:
When that is known and golden time convents,
A solemn combination shall be made
Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister,
We will not part from hence. Cesario, come;
For so you shall be, while you are a man;
But when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen. (V.i.373-381)
SONNET 20
A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all hues in his controlling,
Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, 10
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. (1-14)
TN, Act 5 Synthesis Exercise | 6
To what degree are Duke Orsino and the speakers’ perceptions of gender identity oppressive? Why?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ideas learned from classmates: