Do Orsino and Viola share a similar kind of love in Twelfth Night?
Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night as a comedy that opens many plot lines but eventually closes all of them. The main story revolves around the love that Orsino and Viola eventually share in the end. Their love is unique because it seems to be genuine, but it came about in a unique way. Duke Orsino is very physically attracted to Olivia when the play first opens. He also holds a unique type of genuine romantic love, or rather he’s in love with the idea of love. This quality is what makes Viola fall in love with him. Comedically, it would have been funny to see Viola played by a man, playing a woman, who is playing a man try to explain true love to a clueless Orsino. Shakespeare is trying to make the point that love is complicated, but not always this comically complicated. He is showing that love can be …show more content…
Disguise and lies are hitched together on the grounds that it’s absolutely impossible to shroud your character without lying about your identity. Viola understands the kind of chaotic love disguise can cause when Olivia sends her a ring unceremoniously by Malvolio in front of the house. Humorously, Viola presents the critical idea of camouflage and disguising one’s true identity in the opening scene she is highlighted in with the sea captain. While she is conversing with him, she understands that in spite of the fact that he is advising her significant data, she has no genuine confirmation that he is giving her truthful data. She tells the sea captain that he is attractive and that she hopes his beauty is also on the inside. Viola states, “There is a fair behavior in thee, captain, And though that nature with a beauteous wall Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee I will believe thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character”
Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night as a comedy that opens many plot lines but eventually closes all of them. The main story revolves around the love that Orsino and Viola eventually share in the end. Their love is unique because it seems to be genuine, but it came about in a unique way. Duke Orsino is very physically attracted to Olivia when the play first opens. He also holds a unique type of genuine romantic love, or rather he’s in love with the idea of love. This quality is what makes Viola fall in love with him. Comedically, it would have been funny to see Viola played by a man, playing a woman, who is playing a man try to explain true love to a clueless Orsino. Shakespeare is trying to make the point that love is complicated, but not always this comically complicated. He is showing that love can be …show more content…
Disguise and lies are hitched together on the grounds that it’s absolutely impossible to shroud your character without lying about your identity. Viola understands the kind of chaotic love disguise can cause when Olivia sends her a ring unceremoniously by Malvolio in front of the house. Humorously, Viola presents the critical idea of camouflage and disguising one’s true identity in the opening scene she is highlighted in with the sea captain. While she is conversing with him, she understands that in spite of the fact that he is advising her significant data, she has no genuine confirmation that he is giving her truthful data. She tells the sea captain that he is attractive and that she hopes his beauty is also on the inside. Viola states, “There is a fair behavior in thee, captain, And though that nature with a beauteous wall Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee I will believe thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character”