Disguise

protagonist used men 's clothing to disguise herself as her brother and change not only her gender but her role. The change of this is where Shakespeare draws a blurry line between what is male and what is female. Other characters used disguises including Malvolio, who puts on crossed garters and yellow stockings to give him the ability to win over Olivia. Feste dressed up as a priest when he spoke to Malvolio after the steward has been locked in a room. Feste puts on the disguise even though…

Shakespeare’s use of mistaken identity in his plays creates humor that is popular today. Among the thirty-seven plays he wrote, mistaken identity often using disguise is a common theme. Mistaken identity is a plot device that dates back to the writers named Menander and Plautus in ancient Greek and Roman times (Kiryakakis 1). Shakespeare borrowed the idea to create comedies that are still read and performed over four hundred years after they were written. Authors today still follow Shakespeare’s…

at its close as she has only chosen this disguise out of desperation. This improvised quality of Twelfth Night prevents Viola from finding liberation and emphasizes her disguise as being a way to escape a difficult situation by going underground (Bloom 231). This differs from She’s The Man where Viola has an ability to adapt her own personality into Sebastian’s when she, as him, enrolls at a new school using the opportunity to her advantage. Her disguise presents her with the opportunity to try…

story is a fairy tale as two daughters with different temperaments end up with opposite outcomes. One of the folklore motifs that appears in this wonder tale is the meeting of beautiful younger daughter and the fairy disguises as a poor beggar woman. (Lang 164). The fairy first disguises herself as a poor beggar woman in order to test her if she has good manners and kind attitude. This motif embodies is the use of deception in a good way, whereas it displays the true nature of the good in the…

Callisto by Angelica Kauffmann (1781), oil on canvas with a 24 inches diameter is a painting in the late 19th century. As soon as our eyes set into the painting, two female figures in the foreground captured our attention. One of them is Jupiter in the disguise of Dianna, while the other female is Callisto. Since the main light source is shone on both of them, they would consider as the emphasis of the artwork and where most tension is created. The overall composition and color choice creates a…

using Viola, and different characters, to prove that women and men are equally capable of a deep, honest Love, contrary to popular belief. Twelfth Night is a story that follows a woman named Viola who, shipwrecked, washes ashore and decides to disguise herself as a man named Cesario. Cesario becomes a servant to Orsino, the Duke of Illyria. Viola,…

The Disguises of Oppressive Governments: A Fable We are living in the age of “Trump’s America”; of Kim Jong Un’s North Korea; of Bashar al-Assad. Despite warnings, such as George Orwell’s, Animal Farm, governments that are copies of the Soviet Union are able to disguise themselves through manipulative oppression. Although when written, Animal Farm represented society of the Soviet Union during communist rule, Animal Farm through history represents these disguises of oppressive governments, even…

Shakespeare uses imagery to reveal the characters deep dark desires to become greater than those around them demonstrating their undeterred ambition. Shakespeare demonstrates characters ambition by using imagery of Blood, Sleep, Nature, Clothing, and Disguise against Concealment. By using these images it reveals characters ambition and gives the reader an in depth analysis of how each character acts throughout the play. One example of imagery revealing character's ambition is through imagery of…

the play that makes the play great. Many elements within the play take on what it was like during Shakespeare's time, while others focused on political commentary. The play talks about the main character Viola and her disguise as a man, while look for her brother Sebastian. Her disguise creates a lot of misperception; many would say that Twelfth Night shines a light on sexuality; however, it's the reader's exploration into Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, in which they will explore the many possible…

In films of this genre, the disguise usually becomes a hinderance to heterosexual pursuit(Straayer 410). In Some Like it Hot, Joe is still in disguise when he kisses Sugar. The audience knows that this kiss is a heterosexual one, but the visual representation is homoerotic. Director billy Wilder crafts the scene in such a way so that we don’t…