Gender Confusion In Twelfth Night Essay

Interview about Gender Confusion in Twelfth Night Our presentation about the play, Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, was about gender confusion. Our interview demonstrated how gender confusion took place in the play since the characters were deceived into believing that Viola was a male. Our presentation was in the form of an interview, which had two characters from the play and two audience members. I believe that our presentation was well in the terms of context of the interview and the overall topic that was demonstrated to the audience. Our group had a great topic to discuss in the interview, which demonstrated one of the main topics in the play itself. There were some parts of the interview that could have been improved to prove …show more content…
This would make the audience more attentive and as a result, everyone would listen. The problem with our presentation was that we were all mainly looking at our scripts rather than making eye contact with the audience. When we did make some eye contact, the audience was focused on our presentation postures and other presentation skills. To make sure that this problem does not occur again, we should try to remember some of our lines from the script and we should also practice as a group rather than independently. The other major problem that occurred during our presentation was the lack of execution of the role of characters in the interview. This problem also falls into the eye contact problem because to execute a great presentation you must have enthusiasm, which most of us did not. Our presentation lacked the enthusiasm that could have made it a lot more interesting and could have really engaged the audience to pay attention. Our presentation lacked enthusiasm since our voices were monotonous. We did not convey our feelings through expression when we were saying the lines of our script and we also did not have much of a conversation with each other. Instead, we were simply just reading our