Twelfth Night Essay

Character Analysis Sir Andrew Aguecheek Twelfth Night, a comedic play, written by Shakespeare, eloquently develops unique traits, actions, and dialogue for each character to defy roles. Throughout the play, there are clear examples that convey the characteristics and the use of Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the play. He is the clueless, cowardly character who is used by other characters to create a humorous scene and plot, and the vehicle Shakespeare used to prove the stupidity of the royal class. In…

Shakespeare was a poet and a playwright. Some of his plays are Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest, and The Winter’s Tale. Also one of Shakespeare’s play is Twelfth Night, or What You Will which is a comedy written around they year 1601 and consists of five acts. According to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night for his “all-male company” (Shakespeare 1187). In which during Shakespeare’s time plays were performed by men acting both the female and male roles.…

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…

Furthermore, in Twelfth Night a character named Feste the clown is presented. In the play, Feste points fun at everyone no matter the class or social rank an individual is and even sings songs pertaining to the mood of the play. The tone of play especially changes once everyone mistook Sebastian as Cesario From “Nothing that is so, is so': Twelfth Night.” author Ryan Kiernan states, “Festevents his irritation in a sarcastic tirade, ironically unaware, for once, that he speaks more truly than he…

Malvolio Manages Messing up Marriage William Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night includes instances of love and loathe. Almost every character is trying to earn another’s love. The understanding of love is necessary to achieve it, and some people, in this play, know more than others do. Olivia’s steward, Malvolio, approaches love wrongly in The Twelfth Night. Malvolio knows the least about love because he is arrogant, and as a result he pursues love for the wrong reason. Malvolio desperately…

Viola/Cesario & Duke Orsino: Mutually, key figures of the main plot of the play. Viola the survivor of a shipwreck, disguises herself as a man named Cesario to work for Duke Orsino. As Cesario she is sent to the grieve-stricken Lady Olivia, and onto the duke’s behalf to woo Olivia, who ignores Orsino’s attention. Under an entangled masquerade Viola as a male becomes privy to Orsino’s inner desires, and as his confidant she falls for him, and Olivia falls for Viola—the male ruse messenger. A…

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of comedy, what one can laugh at and at what point it goes too far and transitions from comedic to cruel. He uses an antagonist named Malvolio to see whether people can find humor in another person’s physical and emotional abuse. However, Shakespeare’s expansion of comedy serves a duel purpose as he uses it to teach his audience some valuable lessons about life and how one should behave. Shakespeare presents the character Malvolio in…

Preforming in act 2 scene 5 in Twelfth Night, I was able to get a more in depth view of Sir Andrew’s character and therefore empathize with him more. I was able to narrow in on just Andrew’s lines and view the world from his perspective, as opposed to reading the book as a whole. Toby, Fabian, and Andrew, along with Maria, write a fake letter in the style of Olivia’s handwriting that falsely confesses Olivia’s love for Malvolio. They leave the letter for the thoughtless Malvolio to find and Toby…

Thesis: Through the symbolism of the twins Viola and Sebastian in Shakespeare’s 12th Night, love can be seen as an unyielding force and can be found in unintentional and mysterious ways. Body Paragraph #1: Viola falls in love with Orsino, after he talks about her qualities, or being similar to a woman, of course, unknowingly that she actually is a woman. P #1: Viola masquerades as a man with the name of Cesario in order to make something of herself. She goes to work for the Duke Orsino, who…

What does it mean to be truly mad? Not mad in the sense of anger but in the sense of insanity. Throughout Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night; Or, Whatever You Will the theme of madness rings throughout. I am going to be examining the theme of madness in this play by looking at Shakespeare’s Malvolio, Sebastian, and Antonio. First let 's have a look at the character Malvolio, servant to the fair maiden Olivia. Malvolio is made out to be a Puritan. Puritans “strove to make it impossible for…