12th_Night_Qoute

12th Night Qoute Quote Essay “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die” These are the first lines of the play, said by the Count Orsino. These lines set one of the main themes in the story, which is that love can bring much suffering. The plays characters seem to view love as a plague or curse which does not bring them happiness. What Orsino is saying in this first passage, is that he wants the musician to play so that the music will feed his love and that once the musician plays enough he will be sick of love and then die. Many other characters claim to be suffering from love as well. Olivia is suffering first of all because of the loss of her father and then her bother. This effected her so much (at first) that she refused to be in the company of men for several years so she could mourn them. Olivia also describes love, suffering, play, viola, olivia, first, characters, because, , orsino, theme, plays, plague, musician, much, man, main, lines, funny, fallen, die, count, bring, bother, years, woman, wealth, wasn’t, view, thought, thinks, themes, terribly, talk, surfeiting, suffers