The play, Twelfth Night or What You Will, has many parts that contribute to the plot of the story and helps it get put together. One key element seen throughout the play is the deceptiveness of apperences, or in other words, how people hide who they really are in the story. This is used throughout the play for various reasons, either to protect oneself or to try to get a better understanding of your surrondings. Not only that, but disguises are used to help with the plot and to help keep the…
At the end of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the characters end up with something they weren’t seeking despite the happy marriages because the characters push aside their original feelings. Orsino’s undying love for Olivia vanishes at the end of the play when he marries Viola at the drop of a hat. Olivia’s love for Viola or “Cesario” is disregarded when she marries Sebastian. Malvolio wants Olivia’s affection but he truly desires a higher social ranking. Spontaneity is part of love's irrationality…
Twelfth Night Analytical Essay In the context of the Renaissance, our female main character Viola is considered to be intelligent and witty. She should be the perfect combination of beauty and rational. Since she fell in love with the Duke, Viola decided to dress as a man to approach Orsino. The Duke soon appreciates Viola’s words and her wisdom reactions. Even, eventually, she gets the Duke’s love. But a great girl like Viola also has her moment of being foolish. After Viola heard the…
In the play, Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare viola survives a shipwrecked where she was separated from her twin brother, not knowing if he is dead or alive, in Illyria. Being as resourceful as viola is she decides to cross dress as a man and take a job at Duke Orinos court. This shows that viola is able to adapt to different things. She had a well-orchestrated plan in a foreign place, and that she is a strong character. “O, then unfold the passion of my love, Surprise her with discourse…
Conflicts Essay: Twelfth Night or, What You Will There are internal and external conflicts in the Twelfth Night that make a person want to keep reading to see what is going to happen next. The way Shakespeare wrote this play creates a lot of confusion and conflict that makes it more interesting. When reading the play it begins with conflict and it makes a person think how will this conflict and confusion be resolved in the end? This romantic comedy is about love of course, and all of the…
Love is an unyielding force that eventually humbles us all. In his comedies, William Shakespeare attempts to define this elusive entity in the play Twelfth Night . The Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy about a girl named Viola who has to disguise herself as a man for protection after a shipwreck where she thought she lost her brother. As the play continues Viola develops feelings for the man she works for Orsino although he is a lovesick fool for Olivia who doesn’t want a relationship because…
Olivia and Desire In the seventeenth century comedic play, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses Olivia to display how one’s desire affects others’ emotions, which changes how people feel about the person who has desires or about a situation. Desire has importance as all people have some form of aspiration. Desire comes in three main forms: love, wishes, and orders or instructions, and Olivia displays all of these throughout the play. Thanks to Olivia’s desires, Shakespeare teaches readers how…
this quote relates to the play because in the end only the strongest love lasts. “The twelfth night,” is a play written by, William Shakespeare. Throughout the play it talked about all different types of love and the way different characters feel towards others.In the play everyone experiences different types of love some stronger than others. There are many different types of love shown in the play Twelfth Night such as, romantic love, love at first sight and forbidden love. The first form…
Literary Elements in Twelfth night While writing, the writers have to have the skill to mesmerize their readers and to convey the message powerfully and effectively. To keep the attention of the readers intact, the authors use special technique and skill. This technique lies in their skilful use of the literary components. In the composition of literary work, the common components are plot, setting, characters, theme, mood, tone, structure, language, metaphor, allusion, symbolism etc. These…
The comic subplots in Shakepeare’s Twelfth Night and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus function in the overall structures of the plays in many ways. Specifically, I argue that they parallel the main plot, emphasizing the theme of self-love that dominates the main plot. Within Twelfth Night, the emphasis that is placed on the theme of self-love is prominent from the moment the play begins. For example, it opens with the following speech by Orsino to himself: “If music be the food of love, play on/Give me…