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The Twelfth Night: Gender Roles and Disguise Shakespeare often wrote his characters to portray literal and figurative disguises in order to accomplish some sort of goal. This idea was exemplified and prevalent in The Twelfth Night; a Shakespearean comedy written between 1599 and 1601. In this play, the main protagonist, Viola, disguises herself upon arrival to the country of Illyria to search for her brother, Sebastian, who was lost and thought to be dead after a shipwreck and storm. She…

understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” This quote very much relates to the characters in the play, “Twelfth Night” written by William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy with unrequited love being one of the main focal points of the play. Despite the fact that resolutions are sought resulting in the play ending happily, where after much confusion, lovers come…

Gogh painted The Starry Night. Kloss states: it is “majestic, expressionistic and unexpected. It is often cited as one of the most important precursors of German and Nordic Expressionism.” “At least one art historian has observed that it is more powerful, and more imaginative, than anything in later Expressionistic art, which proceeded from a similar charged vision of Nature (L44). Van Gogh’s work around this time was full of “passion and turmoil” yet his Starry Night is an extreme expression…

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…

Stafford’s “Traveling through the Dark” and Snodgrass 's "Driving Late at Night" are the same poem written by two different people but have a whole different felt to one another. Stafford’s poem gives a dark, eerie feeling while Snodgrass’s has the same effect but it doesn’t feel as dark and eerie due to the lack of detail throughout. To summarize Stafford’s whole poem would be a man is driving alongside a mountain on night when he comes across a dead dear. Therefore he decides to push the deer…

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…

Information: Rylant, Cynthia. Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1998. Print. Curriculum Area: Language Arts Student Age: 7-9 year olds Group Size: 25-30 Students Measureable Objective: • Students should be able to ask and answer question about key details found in the test. (CCSS L.1.1) • Students should be able to recall information about character, places, and events found in Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night (CCSS L.1.4) • Student should demonstrate proper…

Shakespeare’s comparison of ignorance to darkness and hell in Twelfth Night illustrates the ironies inflicted on the main characters and shows that as long as they do not know the true state of their situations, they will be in the agony of their own personal hells. Feste and Malvolio deliver a shared simile in 4.2, which reveals the foundational theme of the play: the characters in Olivia’s house (sphere of influence) are ignorant of their true situations. MALVOLIO. I say to you this house…

One of the most interesting characters in Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet is Mercutio. We never know what he looks like on the outside, but his character traits are vivid, like a bouquet of flowers. Mercutio is Romeo’s good friend, they share life, stories and thought together. Shakespeare created Mercutio in direct opposition to Romeo, the main character. Even though Mercutio's life in the play is very short his appearance dominates the dialogue and the action whenever he appears in…

paper “Springheeled Jack” had struck again. Unable to recall where he was the night before and fearing to look in his trunk. The mans wife believes he was with another woman, so does our narrator now. The college student is externally conflicted as the fog has possessed him compared to the tranquil collectively passionate feeling it gives. Conflicts arise as the young father tries to recall where he was the night before to his wife as she cries in the next…