Act 5 — Twelfth Night — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Act 5
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Antonio before Orsino, Olivia's claim on Cesario as her husband, the twins' reunion, Orsino's promise to marry Viola,
Malvolio's release and vow of revenge, and Feste's closing song.
Key quotations: 'Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!', 'His life I gave him and did thereto add / My love, without retention or restraint', 'Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, / Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death, / Kill what I love?', 'I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love', 'Cesario, husband, stay', 'One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons', 'An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin / Than these two creatures', 'My father had a mole upon his brow', 'Madam, you have done me wrong, / Notorious wrong', 'And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges', 'I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you', 'He hath been most notoriously abused', 'Orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen', 'For the rain it raineth every day'.
Structure: the comic resolution in one long scene, the twins' reunion, and the endings left open: Viola still in men's clothes, Malvolio's exit, Antonio's silence and Feste alone on stage.
Context: comedy's ending in marriage, and how far the festival's disorder is put back in order.
Eduqas's Shakespeare questions don't mark context: the extract question (15 marks) and the whole-play essay (20 marks, plus 5 for spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structures) both mark response and analysis of language, form and structure (AO1 and AO2). Use context only in a phrase that supports an interpretation, and say which question each worked paragraph practises.
