What thematic strands have you located?
Heart-Love-Longing-Desire-Survival-Hart-stag-hunt-chase-capture-keep-

Where is the data you retrieved found? What is happening in context when Shakespeare employs this particular theme or image?
Act I, Scene 1- Duke Orsino
Act I, Scene 3- Sir Andrew (2x)
Act I, Scene 5- Viola (4x)
Act II, Scene 5- Malvolio
Act III, Scene 1- Olivia (2x) Viola (1x)
Act III, Scene 2- Fabian
Act III, Scene 4- Maria, Olivia
Act IV, Scene 1- Olivia
Act V, Scene 1- Duke Orsino

The use of Hart

Act 1, Scene 1- Curio and Duke Orsino

- Most of the time when the word heart is used it is a sad situation. Usually one person is longing for the love/affection (heart) of someone from whom they cannot have it. All of the characters of Twelfth Night are in love with, or have given their heart away, to someone who does not feel the same way about them. The word heart is also used in the context of a chase or a thing that must be tamed also.
- When the word Hart is used it is used as a play on words. Duke Orsino says that he has been turned into a hart. What he means by that is that he has been turned into a heart, or love sick person. He then goes on to say that his desires pursue him. Comparing his love sick state to that of Hart trying to escape hounds his how Shakespeare chooses to metaphorically describe Orsino’s state.

How does the data you retrieved support your first thoughts on Shakespeare’s obsessive use of a particular image? What can you argue about Shakespeare’s figuration?
In most of Shakespeare’s plays affairs of the heart are never easily managed/resolved. He is fairly consistent in making the heart (or love) something that is often sought after but rarely returned by the person who is originally being sought. Instead by the end of the play each character (almost all of whom have displaced hearts) find someone else to be the recipient of his or her love.