Themes and Ideas (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Festival when normal social order was temporarily overturned

Unpredictable, constantly shifting force

Uses hyperbole to satirise excessive romantic sentiment

Changeable costume, vulnerable to error and exposure

Boy actors played female characters who then disguise as male

Killjoy rigidity and joyless ambition

Walks about the orb like the sun

Feste's songs about life's fleeting nature

Idealisation of distant, unattainable love

Agency and freedom