Question

PLEASE HELP!! Which three sets of lines in this excerpt from act II, scene IV, of Twelfth Night suggest that a woman is inconstant in love?
DUKE: There is no woman's sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart So big, to hold so much; they lack retention. Alas, their love may be call'd appetite, No motion of the liver, but the palate, That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt; But mine is all as hungry as the sea, And can digest as much: make no compare Between that love a woman can bear me And that I owe Olivia. VIOLA: Ay, but I know— DUKE: What dost thou know? VIOLA: Too well what love women to men may owe: In faith, they are as true of heart as we. My father had a daughter loved a man, As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman, I should your lordship.

Answer 1

Answer:

The set of lines in this excerpt that suggest a woman is inconstant in love from act II, scene IV, of Twelfth Night, is the first sentence which says

There is no woman's sides

Can bide the beating of so strong a passion

As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart

So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.

The lines above talks about how a woman is unable to hold her feelings when it’s come to having a romantic interest in somebody. This inconstant love makes them lack retention.