Night

William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night and the film Shakespeare in Love deal with the complexities of gender and sexuality. Even though the play Twelfth Night was published nearly four hundred years before Shakespeare in Love was released, Shakespeare’s play represents a more modern outlook on gender. Both materials involve cross-dressing, but cross-dressing is more of a feature in Shakespeare in Love, while Twelfth Night actually delves into the complexities of what it means to be either male…

Attaining independence through opposing gender roles in the 1600-1800 In the play Twelfth Night and the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen female and male characters experience a phenomenon that had rarely been seen before in this time period. Gender roles had been an important part of history since the beginning of time and seemed to be respected and followed by citizen of all kind in England during the 1600-1800. Society had expectations for women and men and how they were expected to…

addresses the “spirit of love”? He uses falconry as the metaphor. 6. What is the subtitle of the play? Its “What You Will”. 7. Toward what does the title Twelfth Night orient the reader? i think it orient festive atmosphere and playful. 8. What recreation does Curio ask the Duke about? Curio asked if he is going hunting.…

Edward Hopper’s painting Night Hawk is set in the film noir days (1920s); it shows people sitting in a classic style diner after midnight I presume because of the empty streets and closed shops around the diner. It displays the night sky in contrast to the brightly light interior of the old “mom and pops” style diner. Noticeable forms in this work of art include the wooden counter, which matches the surrounding stools, metal coffee containers in the aft, green trim around the windows, which…

landscape. Basically, I think of a landscape to make someone feel happy. My thoughts of a landscape are similar to van Gogh’s because he has buildings, houses and rolling hills in his landscape. My thoughts differ because his landscape is dark and also at night where as I picture a landscape being during the day or at sunset. Also, in his landscape I can’t tell if there is any grass which leaves me thinking if there was grass or not. When I think of a town without grass I think of a desert and a…

“The act of love is largely the art of persistence,” said Albert Ellis. This concept could be brought into Shakespeare’s comedy, Twelfth Night, where the character Orsino was madly in love with the character Olivia; however, after learning that Olivia had already married Sebastian, Orsino transfers his love to Sebastian's sister, Viola, and marries her. Very similarly, although Olivia was in love with Cesario (Viola) she also then transfers her love to Sebastian after she had realized that she…

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…

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-…

A Very Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh created Starry Night in an asylum looking out his window. This is the way that Van Gogh depicted nature. The painting was the most famous of all the paintings he did. It was the only painting he sold. Van Gogh painted two pictures of Starry Night but they did not come out the way he wanted them to. The idea of Starry Night was over a “land scape and not a town.” (Soth) He wrote to his brother Theo about his vision of what he thought about what he saw outside…

155-1556). Malvolio says this to Olivia after encountering Cesario. Cesario being a girl in reality has many feminine features which makes Malvolio question his/her appearance. This is one of the many examples regarding identity confusion. In Twelfth Night, mistaken identity adds confusion in the play. Mistaken identity also incorporates humour in the play to engage the reader furthermore. The role of gender confusion also causes many characters to suffer from love throughout the entire story.…