Illyria

disintegrated kingdom Macedonia in the north of Greece. Facing many invasions, Philip II taken into captivity by the Thebans from between 386 to 365 BCE. While hostage, he noted their military techniques and brought them back to Macedonia to defeat Illyria. His army supremacy granted him the domination to become emperor. His influence turned deadly when others became offended by his power. Under his strong prominence Macedonia went through an intensive transformation. “Philip built a…

Throughout “Twelfth Night”, Olivia and Viola are both in mourning, but while one decides to hide away from the public eye for 7 years, One has the inspiration to keep one going and is even willing to Cross-dress in order to work for the Duke of Illyria. The reason? Inspiration to move on from the death of a close sibling. Or at least of the thought of death. Whereas the other doesn’t have that inspiration, or at least not yet. Motivation, Determination, Judgement, and decision-making are what…

Twelfth Night begins in the mythical land of Illyria where Orsino the nobleman is in love with Lady Olivia. She is currently mourning for her deceased brother, resulting in her unacquainted love for Orsino. Off the coast, a storm produced a horrifying shipwreck that swept Viola onto Illyria’s shore…

In the Shakespeare play The Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, a girl named Viola is shipwrecked on an island called Illyria where she hides in plain sight dressed as her brother Sebastian but going under the name of Cesario. While acting as Cesario she goes to work for the Count Orsino who is in love with the wealthy Olivia. During Viola’s time working for Orsino as Cesario, she eventually fell in love with him, but as she is known as a boy to Orsino, she cannot profess her love to him. Instead…

The play Twelfth Night and film Some Like it Hot both include the idea of deception to help make the structure of their story. Twelfth Night is about a woman who plays the role of a man in order to work for the Duke in Illyria, but eventually has Countess Olivia fall in love with her while being a messenger of the Duke’s love letters. Some Like it hot is about two men who join an all woman jazz band to run away to Florida after witnessing a mob murder. The characters in both Twelfth Night and…

When stuck between fighting and fleeing, it can become difficult to choose. This is the main theme of the story “On The Rainy River”, written by Tim O’Brien, which recalls the events and struggles from when he was drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. Applying a biographical lens to Tim O’Brien’s “On The Rainy River” reveals the relationship between how the narrator’s story can relate to Tim O’Brien’s life. You can clearly see the similarities between his views on the war and his conclusion to…

Sebastian is Cesario/Viola’s twin, separated from his sibling because of a shipwreck. However, both of them would end up finding each other, but not without some love shenanigans first. When Sebastian arrives to Illyria, Olivia is very pleased to see him, believing that he is Cesario, the one that she is in “love” with. She whisks Sebastian off to her house, not realizing anything. In a nutshell, Sebastian and Cesario find each other, everyone finds out about Cesario’s…

Life is a Tragedy “Life is a tragedy full of happiness.” Romantic comedies are usually light and funny throughout the whole story, but Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has a great deal of hurt in this play. Reading ‘Twelfth Night’ would make that believable. Twelfth Night is about twins who are separated in a shipwreck. The female twin, Viola, dresses up as a eunuch trying to woo, Olivia a countess, for the Duke, Orsino; who Viola fell in love with. Then when the twins find each other again they…

Prior to the 8th century Corinthians subsisted on agriculture and pastoralism; however cultivable land soon was in short supply (Angel, 1972; Gwynn, 1918; McIlvaine, 2012; Pomeroy et al., 2004; Stallo, 2007) During the 8th century BCE, ruling members of eight villages formed Corinth and dominated their neighbors beginning their local expansion. This small independent city-state soon became a regional powerhouse (Antonaccio, 2003; Dietler, 2005; Gwynn, 1918; McIlvaine, 2012; Stallo, 2007).…

Scene 1 1. What is the major theme of the play? Love is the major theme of the play. 2. With whom is the Duke in love? He is in love with Olivia. 3. In what kinds of poetry does the Duke express his love? He express his love with puns, metaphors, similes and synesthesia. 4. Is it entirely true that the Duke is “in love with love”? No, because Duke is in love with Olivia. 5. What type of metaphor does the Duke use when he addresses the “spirit of love”? He uses falconry as the metaphor. 6. What…