Twelfth Night

The power and acceptance of reality is an underlying theme in the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. This play has a touch of comedy, and tragedy but also comes around full circle in the end. Many characters in the play demonstrate tragedy of love throughout the play. Through the character of the Duke Orsino, we realize that it is better to accept reality and be down to Earth, rather than having unrealistic expectations. One example of the Duke having unrealistic expectations is through…

Young Lady Rescued From Devastating Shipwreck! Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, began in a city named Illyria. It was a small city beside the sea. At the shore, a young woman named Viola was rescued after a disastrous shipwreck that nearly killed her and her brother. However, Viola assumes that her brother was killed, and she was never going to see him again. She talks to the captain of the crew that rescued her, and pleaded for advice on what to do to support herself. The captain explained that…

The world is a crazy place, anyone can be crazy. In fact, the average person walks by 36 murders in their life time? So, in perspective how many unstable people have walked near you in this lifetime? As examined in twelfth night the characters themselves live in a society that accepts actions that are abnormal. Such as proposing to someone they barely know. Olivia reminds most to be the girl who doesn’t think things through, which is most girls that have been encountered in everyone’s life, may…

After all the inadvertent gayness, cases of mistaken identity, and awkward sexual tension present in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, our protagonist, Viola, finds herself preparing for the marriage festivities at the end the final act. Heteronormativity has been reinstated with the correcting of the vaguely gendered parings: Viola finally gets to be with her darling Duke Orsino, and Olivia seems pleased with her replacement Cesario, Sebastian. A deeper analysis of the play, however, proposes that…

hopeless situation yearn to escape its cruel grasp. When loves ensnares someone, he or she often acts uncontrollably and thinks delirious thoughts. Shakespeare explores the ridiculous responses to love through a hopeless love triangle in his play Twelfth Night. At the beginning of the play, Count Orsino of Illyria mopes around his home and pines for the grieving lady Olivia by sending messengers to her to express his feelings. Viola arrives on the island due to a shipwreck, and enters Orsino’s…

Twelfth Night Opinion Essay Many people argue that Twelfth Night is a play that shouldn’t be taught in schools. Although Twelfth Night should stay as a teaching guide to grade nine students. The morals, English skills and humor taught in the book can help students not only in school academically, but also in real life situations. In this day and age many adolescents do not know what the word loyalty means nor do they know how to demonstrate it. However by reading Twelfth Night students can…

figurative masks. The play Twelfth Night, is about a girl named Viola who thinks her brother is dead, so she dresses like him and calls herself Cesario to mourn for him. Eventually a girl name Olivia falls in love with Cesario, but is really falling in love with Viola. Then later in the play Sebastian comes back alive, Viola and Sebastian are both happy that they knew each other was alive. But Sebastian is confused why Viola would be dressed up as him.In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare indicates the…

Twelfth Night Thesis In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, love is found in many miraculous ways; friendship, pranks, dismissal. Although love does have many different forms, the underlying theme of love in this particular piece would be, that love can appear unexpectedly, and with no warning in advance. Love can be found in even the most grim looking situations. Unrequited love specifically. The love of Olivia to Viola, Viola and Orsino, Orsino to Olivia, and humorously enough, the love that Toby and…

the play Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare shows various of ways of sanity going on. In today’s society people are going sane, and insanity. A quantity of people believe that all humans are sane. Once in awhile people start to slip and multiple things start to happen. But are people naturally sane? Or is it just madness going on like a disease spreading around. Humans start to rise and become more sanity or insanity. Shakespeare uses words such as “mad” and “madness” in Twelfth night in…

traditional gender roles in Twelfth Night with the twin characters, Viola and Sebastian. Shakespeare has complicated the gender roles between Viola and Sebastian by cloaking Viola as male, not only through her dialogue (and Sebastian’s as well) but through her persona. Shakespeare chooses this idea in his writing to flow the characterization of these two perplexing individuals who washed up on shore and focused on their arrival to Illyria. From the beginning of Twelfth Night when Viola discovers…