Significance of ending


Is there a special reason why the director had Toby and Mariah/Malvolio/Andrew/Feste walk out of Olivia's estate one by one at the end?

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Yes i think there was a reason for them all leaving seperately. They each seemed to leave at a specific part of Feste's song, as if these words are referring to them exactly. The best example is when Antonio leaves it is to the words of "'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate". It gives a good summary of their character in a way.

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It's to demonstrate their exclusion from the happy, closed circle of the lovers, who, as lover's sometime do, treat outsiders with indifference. See also the last shot of John Ford's, "The Searchers".


But you ARE Blanche ... and I AM.

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Yeah, the aristocratic quartet were basically in their own little world. I kind of felt really bad for Antonio, who was so devoted to Sebastian and kinda just got shut out.

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Well, Trevor Nunn isn't posting on these boards, so who knows? I thought it was a sign of the restoration of rationality after all the topsy-turviness of the feast of Twelfth Night. All the lovers are paired off, the criminal is shown mercy and given a chance to escape, the false suitors pack up and go, and even poor Malvolio learns to love himself as he is -- without his ridiculous toupe.


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