How does shakespeare make act 2 scene 4 of twelfth night important?
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Repetitive scenes in Orsino's palace show the paralyzing stasis of his love-melancholy. This melancholy is always linked with artistic or musical performances For the first time in the play, Orsino responds to the emotions of someone besides himself. Although blinded by Viola's disguise, he cannot see the irony that the audience does: he thinks that he shares only a master–servant relationship (like, for instance, Antonio and Sebastian in 2.1). Orsino's interest is also short-lived, and he soon returns to speaking in clichés (his discussion of women's beauty). More melancholy and musical performance. Feste's reference to the "melancholy god" is mocking since Orsino really does seem to worship melancholy. The self-obsessed Orsino doesn't