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to Princess Olivia of Verona. 8. Olivia was NOT fit to become the Queen of Illyria since she was a show off, who only thought about herself, rather than kind deeds. She did not care about the people of Illyria, or her snobby big fat cat named Malvolio. Olivia did not love Prince Orsino and she was only marrying him for his money. 9. Soon, there was a drought in Illyria, and the poor were dying of hunger. Prince Orsino didn’t know what to do for the people, so he asked Olivia. She said,…

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a play written by world famous poet William Shakespeare. The romantic comedy, is believed to have been written in the early 1600s to represent the celebration called “Twelfth Night”, which is a celebration during the passing Christmas time and has, since the play, also been coined “Opposite Day”. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare illustrates a balance of the genders by using Viola, and different characters, to prove that women and men are equally capable of a deep…

Olivia and Desire In the seventeenth century comedic play, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses Olivia to display how one’s desire affects others’ emotions, which changes how people feel about the person who has desires or about a situation. Desire has importance as all people have some form of aspiration. Desire comes in three main forms: love, wishes, and orders or instructions, and Olivia displays all of these throughout the play. Thanks to Olivia’s desires, Shakespeare teaches readers how…

upon them throughout the poem. In the very beginning, Orsino depicts love as an “appetite” that he wants to satisfy and cannot (1-3). On the other hand, love is also exclusionary. At the culmination of the play, the blissful lovers celebrate while Malvolio, who pursued Olivia, is prohibited from having whom he desired. Consequently, love cannot overcome all obstacles and those whose yearnings go unfulfilled prove no less in love but experience the burn of its absence all the more relentlessly…

Why Tom is Unhappy and, Eventually, Leaves In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, a young man named Tom Wingfield leaves his family to pursue a more fulfilling life. Tom’s leaving is based on three major factors within his life: the mundane routine of a job he dislikes, his mother’s constant nagging towards everything he does, and the severe lack of excitement. Following in his father’s footsteps, the departure is selfish and for the most part unsuccessful. While he does escape the…

William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night alludes to a variety of themes that commonly include false identity, role-playing, and love. The general plot of the play could be described as a cross-dressing comedy about a woman, Viola, who tries to gain the attention and love of a Duke, Orsino, with obstacles along the way, including Olivia, the Duke’s love interest. The themes mentioned are developed and sometimes scrutinized by the play’s characters, such as Orsino, Olivia, and Feste the clown. In…

Tennessee William’s play “The Glass Menagerie” gives readers a look into the everyday strife of the dysfunctional Wingfield family. At first glance, it seems that their lives are quite abnormal, but Amanda’s “impulse to preserve her single parent family seems as familiar as the morning newspaper” (Presley 53). In reality, the Wingfields are the archetypal family doing whatever it takes to get by. The Wingfields complications, however, arise from their inability to properly converse with each…

Between the years of 1601-1602, Shakespeare created a famous play known as Twelfth Night. During Act 2, scene 5, Malvolio reads a letter that Maria, who is pretending to be Olivia, wrote and quotes these famous lines: “…In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.” This paper will focus on the meaning and concept of this quote, examples of all three, and how Chihiro from Miyazaki’s Spirited Away…

social rules win at the end. Through the use of Toby and Maria, a little hope was brought upon their intermingled class marriage because she was a lady, but she was apart of the court and friends with Olivia. More specifically, the ship captain and Malvolio were punished for acting out of rank and then thrown into a cell. Both men represented the two sides of reaction for the lower class the quiet ones and the revengers seekers. Lastly, the character named Feste who spoke for Shakespeare and his…

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…