The Twelfth

the 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.…

Character Analysis Sir Andrew Aguecheek Twelfth Night, a comedic play, written by Shakespeare, eloquently develops unique traits, actions, and dialogue for each character to defy roles. Throughout the play, there are clear examples that convey the characteristics and the use of Sir Andrew Aguecheek in the play. He is the clueless, cowardly character who is used by other characters to create a humorous scene and plot, and the vehicle Shakespeare used to prove the stupidity of the royal class. In…

William Shakespeare was a poet and a playwright. Some of his plays are Hamlet, King Lear, The Tempest, and The Winter’s Tale. Also one of Shakespeare’s play is Twelfth Night, or What You Will which is a comedy written around they year 1601 and consists of five acts. According to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night for his “all-male company” (Shakespeare 1187). In which during Shakespeare’s time plays were performed by men acting both the female and…

storyline. In Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night the character Viola lands on the shores of Illyria after being involved in a shipwreck. Furthermore, she disguises herself as Cesario to serve for the local Duke, Orsino. In Billy Wilder’s movie Some Like it Hot Joe and Jerry disguise as women to join an all-female band which is headed to Miami. Through the use of the theme of deception through appearance, the film Some Like it Hot is a natural descendant of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The use of…

Furthermore, in Twelfth Night a character named Feste the clown is presented. In the play, Feste points fun at everyone no matter the class or social rank an individual is and even sings songs pertaining to the mood of the play. The tone of play especially changes once everyone mistook Sebastian as Cesario From “Nothing that is so, is so': Twelfth Night.” author Ryan Kiernan states, “Festevents his irritation in a sarcastic tirade, ironically unaware, for once, that he speaks more truly than he…

Malvolio Manages Messing up Marriage William Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night includes instances of love and loathe. Almost every character is trying to earn another’s love. The understanding of love is necessary to achieve it, and some people, in this play, know more than others do. Olivia’s steward, Malvolio, approaches love wrongly in The Twelfth Night. Malvolio knows the least about love because he is arrogant, and as a result he pursues love for the wrong reason. Malvolio desperately…

Viola/Cesario & Duke Orsino: Mutually, key figures of the main plot of the play. Viola the survivor of a shipwreck, disguises herself as a man named Cesario to work for Duke Orsino. As Cesario she is sent to the grieve-stricken Lady Olivia, and onto the duke’s behalf to woo Olivia, who ignores Orsino’s attention. Under an entangled masquerade Viola as a male becomes privy to Orsino’s inner desires, and as his confidant she falls for him, and Olivia falls for Viola—the male ruse messenger. A…

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of comedy, what one can laugh at and at what point it goes too far and transitions from comedic to cruel. He uses an antagonist named Malvolio to see whether people can find humor in another person’s physical and emotional abuse. However, Shakespeare’s expansion of comedy serves a duel purpose as he uses it to teach his audience some valuable lessons about life and how one should behave. Shakespeare presents the character Malvolio in…

he didn’t keep up with the others, is a lot like when Megan witnessed everyone else get good grades and she didn’t because she slacked off, until a few months before she graduated, she was scared that she wouldn’t graduate and have to retake the twelfth grade. Not to mention when Buck was scared that he wouldn’t keep up and that he wouldn’t last till the end of the year, and that he would be killed, that’s similar to what happened to Megan, she was scared that she wouldn’t be able to make it and…

Looking for a job and better opportunities. This concept can be seen in Randa Jarrar’s book A Map of Home. Bruce Anders thinks and feels a certain way of some particular things of this book. In his presentation on Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home’s Twelfth Chapter, Anders gives his opinion. Anders starts by quoting, “When I thought living in America, I pictured straw yellow hair, surfboards, snow…I tasted ketchup and mustard and mayonnaise; smelled streets and new cars and sometimes horses and…