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A Midsummer’s Nightmare Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream suggests that its relationships are happy ones, but this suggestion is complicated. In fact, the interplay between each of the couples indicates a nefarious quality present in all these relationships. This sinister quality can become even undeniably present in productions of this play. Brown writes that while scholars cannot consider any performance to be an authoritative adaptation, every performance brings interpretative…

Twelfth Night to She’s the Man In the comedy play Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare explores the key idea of Hidden Identity through his characterisation of Viola and Duke Orsino. He also explores how in some situations girls/boys have to dress or pretend to be someone they’re not to fit into society. This idea has been transformed into a modern day context in the Andy Fickmans film She’s the Man. She used the same characters that were in both texts but placed in a new setting and a new…

Shakespeare is known for his history in literature. In every book he has written, the drama that occurs engages the audience. In the play Twelfth Night, there are various parts where drama is created through the forms of betrayal . Throughout this play I, learned that honesty can prevent betrayal just like misunderstandings can create betrayal. Although there were many forms of betrayal demonstrated towards the end of the play, there was only one friendship in the form of betrayal between the…

Love is Overrated, Right? Saying one thing and doing another is a very common occurrence, and reveals one's true self. Though much of Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night is focused and revolved around Countess Olivia and what she does, her thoughts and actions prove to be very jellylike, allowing some to believe she is the most self-indulgent, overrated character in the play. One weakness that makes her an overrated character is her erratic behavior. In the very first scenes of the play, we…

romantic comedies we see in present day. One of the prime examples of this is his play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Shakespeare uses one of his ever-present techniques of crossdressing to create commotion, that eventually resolves itself and allows the characters to receive a happy ending (at least those who deserve it). A perfect example of this takes place in the third scene of act four of Twelfth Night. Prior to this scene, Olivia has given Sebastian a pearl as a token of her love.…

Airport Fiasco Every summer since I was ten years old I have gone to my dad’s house for the summer. It used to be a lengthy, mudane car ride to Idaho, but I didn’t mind because my mom always bought us snacks for the drive and I would sleep most of the way there. It was completely stress-free trip, there and back, until about three years ago. That’s when my dad moved to New Hampshire, which is about a thirty-three hour drive, and my mom was not up for it. That meant my sister and I would have…

The protagonist of the play Twelfth Night is highly regarded as Shakespeare’s strongest and most developed female character by both critics and scholars. Viola is a cunning character who prompts a central issue in the play by disguising herself as a man; she provokes hetero- and homoerotic responses. Though Viola is a very intellectual woman, it is not her mind that stirs these emotions from Olivia and Orsino. Due to the soft and gentle features Viola has when in disguise, both males and females…

It was very late at night. I was not a hundred percent sure what time it was. If I were to guess, I would say that it was 11:30. As I was thinking to myself, I said "Wow it is really late I need to go to bed". As I was getting ready to lie down I heard a loud bang. I thought that maybe it was my neighbors, since they are always working on things at all hours of the day and night. When I heard another loud noise, a short time later I decided to go back downstairs to see for myself what it could…

The Three Stages of Madness: The Essence of Twelfth Night Throughout history, madness has been used as a scapegoat to blame people for attempting to break the social standards in a society. In fact, ones who break those social constructs can never achieve a happy ending, as society deems them mad. In Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, after Viola has been shipwrecked in a violent storm off the coast of Illyria and disguises herself as a boy, she, thus disguised becomes a messenger in the…

The most well-known Post-Impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh, paints most of his paintings when he is in an asylum. As absurd as it seems, van Gogh paints his most known painting, Starry Night, in a mental hospital (Harmon). From the fact that he lives in a mental hospital, people deduce that van Gogh does not have the happiest life. He is often depressed and does not know how to express himself. However, he finds freedom in painting. He paints many different subjects during his life time…