Hi Tully!<\/p>\n
I was also interested in the origins of the quote “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some \/ have greatness thrust upon ’em” (2.5.136-37). I have only ever heard this quote being used in the utmost sincerity, so it was interesting to learn that it’s original context was as a practical joke. These lines are an inflation of Malvolio’s dreams and desires, not something that Marie actually believes. The underlying humor of these lines are further emphasized when Malvolio repeats them to Olivia with pompous sincerity and (in the production at least) emphasis on the sexuality of the lines (3.4). All of this is to say that I was surprised that these lines were originally intended ironically, given how they now stand as inspiration for class mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi Tully! I was also interested in the origins of the quote “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some \/ have greatness thrust upon ’em” (2.5.136-37). I have only ever heard this quote being used in the utmost sincerity, so it was interesting to learn that it’s original context was as a practical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-trouble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}