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Shakespeare has a huge impact on the English language. Shakespeare makes love out to be complicated In the play Twelfth Night. Which leads to the statement that love is not just handed to you, you must work for it because love is never easy. Duke and Olivia believe they are “in love” throughout this play but is it really love? Shakespeare conveys the theme of love through touching connections. Orsino believes that he needs more love until he gets sick of it, “If music be the food of love, play…

Shakespeare’s plays often touch on themes of love, marriage, and affection (of both the platonic and sensual matter). This is especially evident in both “Twelfth Night” and “Othello”, one being his “farewell to wit” and the other being a tragedy. Since both plays contain elements of tragedy, it is possible to examine love as a tragedy of sorts. In “Twelfth Night”, there are marriages without love (Sebastian and Olivia), love without marriages (Sebastian and Antonio), and love used to hurt…

Introduction North Africa in antiquity was a region that was constantly under the control and influence of foreign powers. It was a region that was favorably situated for trade with many of its major cities built along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and it was also a fertile region that was able to sustain the agricultural needs of its sovereign rulers. First, it was the Roman Empire that controlled the local North African provinces and the goods they offered, and much later it was the…

and effect between the events that unfolded in Twelfth Night. Shakespeare: I do understand that I never really gave enough explanation to why Viola might have chosen to do what she did — dressing up as a man and lying her way out of situations in Illyria, a location that was quite frankly full of crazy people was precisely a recipe for disaster, although that is exactly what I needed…

which are; Love, Gender, and Deception. The main characters that this drama is centralized upon are: Olivia, Viola, Orsinio, and Sebastian. The minor characters are; Malvolio, Antonio, Andrew Aguecheek, Maria, and Sir Toby Belch. Viola arrives in Illyria because she separated from her twin brother Sebastian. She was rescued at sea by the Captain and now is in need of a job. She wants to work for Olivia, but is informed that she already has a handmaiden and really is not looking for another…

It’s soon revealed in the play that he only plays the fool so that he can seem all the better when he redeems himself, though Feste’s character in Twelfth Night seems content to let the others continue to believe him a fool, with the exception of Viola who sees through his illusion: “[Feste] is wise enough to play the fool, and to do that well craves a kind of wit” (3.1.59). Viola and Feste’s confrontation magnifies the theme of illusion versus reality that appears in both Hamlet and Henry IV-…

different times of being written can allow the reader to recognize different themes in each of the plays. Hamlet is a tragedy and a the Twelfth Night is a Comedy. Hamlet was set in Denmark while the Twelfth Night was set in the imaginary Dukedom of Illyria. The different genres also lead readers to determine the…

Viola hints at her true identity in the first scene of act three in Twelfth Night saying to Olivia: “I am not what I am” (Shakespeare 211). However, it is not just the fictional Viola who masquerades as something she is not. Women were not allowed on stage in Elizabethan England, thus requiring prepubescent boys to act as females (Charles 123). These boys acted as women on stage, and a confusion of character development and intent of these actors stems from cross-dressing. Boys were acting as…

and lust can be a difficult topic to explain. Love is having an intense feeling based on a whole of a person and their traits, while lust is only an attraction for one or a few of their traits. Twelfth Night takes place in the imaginary region of Illyria, which is on the Adriatic Coast. This region is ruled by the love sick Duke Orsino. The title is a reference to the Twelfth Night of the Christmas celebration(January,6) when The Three Wise Men gave gifts to baby Jesus. In this play there are a…