Deception through appearance is a literary device comedies use to entertain their audience and create the plot and additional subplots of the storyline. In Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night the character Viola lands on the shores of Illyria after being involved in a shipwreck. Furthermore, she disguises herself as Cesario to serve for the local Duke, Orsino. In Billy Wilder’s movie Some Like it Hot Joe and Jerry disguise as women to join an all-female band which is headed to Miami. Through the use of the theme of deception through appearance, the film Some Like it Hot is a natural descendant of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
The use of deception often has an intentional purpose, whether it is running away from the mob or playing a character who
The use of deception often has an intentional purpose, whether it is running away from the mob or playing a character who