This metaphor establishes the love situation between Orsino, Olivia, and Viola.ĭoes this mean that the passive voice should be avoided? No. Viola claims that she is “no fee’d post”, which Warren and Wells define as a “hired messenger (wanting a tip)”. Olivia offers Viola, or Cesario, a purse of money but she declines it and says: “my master, not myself, lacks recompense”(1.5.275-8). The first two lines subtly achieve a metaphor comparing love and money. Rewritten in the active voice, the paragraph reads much more clearly: Active verbs are usually best to create action and movement in your writing, making it light and smooth to read. The passive sentences in this paragraph fail because they create unnecessary focus (the purse of money is not as central to the sentence as Olivia who is doing the action) and weakness (passive verbs sound weak compared to active verbs). The love situation between Orsino, Olivia, and Viola is established through this metaphor. Viola claims that she is “no fee’d post”, which is defined by Warren and Wells as a “hired messenger (wanting a tip)”. A purse of money is offered to Viola by Olivia, but Viola declines it and says: “my master, not myself, lacks recompense”(1.5.275-8). In the first two lines of the passage, a metaphor comparing love and money is subtly achieved. In the following paragraph about Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night, the passive voice is particularly ineffective: The passive voice has a reputation of making your writing appear weak, so you will often be advised to avoid using it. Object Verb What does it do to my writing? In changing a sentence from active to passive, the subject is sometimes discarded: Passive Voice: My sandwich was stolen by the raccoon.
This is the reverse of sentences in the active voice, where the focus of the sentence is the subject.Īctive Voice: The raccoon stole my sandwich The passive voice occurs when the focus of a sentence is changed from the subject (the doer) to the object (receiver).
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