In the Live Globe performance of the Twelfth Night, the issues of gender identity and alternative sexuality registers different from the reading mainly with a sense of humor. For example, when Viola says to Olivia, referring to Maria, “ Most Radiant, Exquisite, and unmatchable beauty-/ I pray you tell me if this be the lady of the house, for I/ never saw her” (1.5. 161-163). In the written play, this line would be read and most likely not get much of a response other than an acknowledgment. Though, in the Globe performance, after Viola says this. The camera focuses on Maria; who then smirks at the camera and receives loud laughter.…
William Shakespeare wrote some of the most influential works in his time that still affect us today. Many of his plays have been adapted into movies; where some of these adaptations fall his plays almost exactly while some have their own take on his plays and are able to change the meaning of the play while still keeping the basics of it. For example, the 2006 movie She’s the Man was adapted from Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. She’s the Man is a modern version of the play with the same plot, relationships, and character names occurring in both.…
Even though Viola loves Duke, and Duke loved Olivia, Viola stayed loyal as a servant. A final example of how Twelfth Night shows loyalty is between the Captain and Viola. First he saves her from the shipwreck, then he agrees to assist her plan of dressing up and becoming a man. The Captain says himself; if he snitches she can take his eyes out, but as we know by…
Twelfth Night Expository Paragraph- Viola In the play Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare, Viola is the character facing the most dilemmas, mostly as a result of her disguise as Cesario, an eunuch. Viola is stranded, alongside a sea captain, as an unaccompanied woman in Illyria, a country foreign to her: "What country, friends, is this? /…
Romeo’s heart was torn into pieces by Rosaline as she didn’t feel the love he felt for her, “she’ll not be hit with cupids arrow”. By Romeo using such depressing language to portray how upset and down he is shows the passion he had for Rosaline, “ sad hours seem long”. Romeo also uses oxymoron’s to describe how grieved and hurt he feels, “ I live dead”, O loving hate”. This reveals how confused Romeo feels as the unreciprocated love has made him feel shut down, “ I have a soul of lead”. Romeo uses negative words against himself to explain his emotions which points out to the audience that unrequited love is very heartbreaking and sorrowful and also that you shouldn’t love someone so instantly as it can result to disappointment.…
Throughout the Twelfth Night, Viola explores the key idea of Hidden Identity. This is shown in the quote, ‘Conceal me what I am and be my aid’ by Viola in 1.3, 50-61. Shakespeare uses the techniques characterisation and dialogue for this quote to the let the audience know that Viola is disguising her identity to get a job since women weren’t allowed to work back in the Elizabethan Era. Therefore, Twelfth Night shows the use of Hidden Identity since Viola’s true identity is being disguised as a male.…
Olivia, a bit skeptical agrees saying, “...we will draw the curtain and show you the/ picture. Look sir, such a one I was this present./ Is 't not well?” (Twelfth Night Act I.V). Even after swearing off men from her life, Olivia can’t help but to show herself to Viola. It isn’t said right away, but that moment is when Olivia fell for Viola.…
Twelfth Night is a play which does not end happily for all its characters. Did this add to or take away from your enjoyment of the end of the play? In the concluding act of ‘Twelfth Night’, Act Five, there is a mix of emotions for all of the characters. During closing stages of the play, several of the characters are unhappy and confused, whilst others are happy and excited.…
William Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night, is a romantic comedy in which the central characters go through the struggles of unrequited love in a humourous and melodramatic fashion. One of the main reasons for such struggles is the use of disguise by one of the parties involved, namely Viola. In Viola’s dramatic soliloquy, found in lines 14-41 of Act 2 scene 2, Shakespeare employs tone, diction, and literary devices, such as personification, to explain how her disguise has conjured up conflict in the form of a complicated love triangle. At the beginning of this passage, the tone seems to be one of confusion as Viola tries to make sense of what had happened with Malvolio and the ring.…
Folly in love in twelfth night Shakespeare’s play ‘Twelfth night’ offers insight into the universal folly of humankind, as the theme of folly is prevalent throughout the play. Humans are shown to be foolish in both their love and their grief, which can be seen throughout the character of Olivia. The majority of the characters fulfil the traditional role of a fool, with their speech and actions causing them to have the recognised behaviour patterns that have been attributed to fools throughout history.…
As a result, this scenario suggests that the true nature of love is unreliable as Olivia, a veiled, teary eyed woman in love with grief, quickly has a change of heart and decides instead to pursue Cesario. Furthermore, this situation depicts fickle love as a result of pain, as Olivia quickly switches from loving her brother to loving Cesario in order to rid herself of the heartache caused by her love for her dead brother, and restore the initial euphoria of being in love. In addition, the wavering nature of love is notably amplified towards the conclusion of the play, when Viola and Sebastian’s mistaken identities are clarified and Duke Orsino realizes that Cesario is in fact a woman named Viola, who has fallen in love with him. Orsino then states, “Give me thy hand, / And let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds” (5.1.263-264). In this quotation, Shakespeare proves the inconstant nature of love as a result of pain because Orsino, who was a short time ago desperately longing for Olivia’s love, has suddenly pronounced to marry Viola, whom he has never previously regarded as a potential partner, in order to free himself from the longing and pain that his love for Olivia enforced upon him.…
Twelfth Night is a story that is written by William Shakespeare. Love is a major topic in the Twelfth Night because many major characters in the story fall in love with each other. In the story, the nature of love does not follow the guidelines of social class. Even though love does not follow these guidelines, the characters in the story still realize what social class they are associated in and it sometimes stops them from seeking out certain characters. There are a few love connections that do defy their social classes.…
As Viola cannot show her love for Orsino, the only way she can express them is in her soliloquies to the audience, this contributes to the dramatic ironies. I believe dramatic irony certainly adds to the magic of Twelfth Night. The disguise also causes mistaken identity, an example of this is when Sir Andrew goes looking for Cesario, finds who he thinks is Cesario, strikes him, the person however is, Sebastian. Sebastian hits him in return, but sevenfold, and Sebastian having been in Illyria only a few days is proposed to by a beautiful lady and is hit by a man he had never seen before, "are all the people mad" Sebastian says. This is an extremely funny series of events started by the disguise of one single woman.…
So in a way Olivia was in love with another woman. So it really questions on whether this is true love or not in Shakespeare’s eyes because “we have no direct evidence of Shakespeare’s personal views” (). Towards homosexuality, but through the story it did show that it could possibly be. The characters that fell in love with Cesario…