Twelfth Night

challenged those norms and turns them on their end. In Macbeth and Twelfth Night we see the way that Shakespeare upends gender expectations by assigning traditionally masculine characteristics to female characters. In these two plays, that differentiate quite a lot, Shakespeare plays a lot with gender expectations and power the women hold over the men with Lady Macbeth and Olivia. Macbeth and Twelfth Night, I feel…

Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night not only proves the importance of words in society, but provides explanation of word usage through the minor character Feste the Jester. Feste plays an important role as a “corrupter of words” and explains to the reader how powerful words are. With this understanding, he affirms that people are what they do; which can be proven, through Feste’s words, to be true. It is prudent to know that Feste does not believe people are constant. From Twelfth NIght we find…

romantic comedy, Twelfth Night. With many scenarios filled with hilarity, this play uses different aspects of love to conjure laughs from the spectators or readers. Each character has a different form of love they feel, including the love of being in love, the love of one’s self, and being blinded by love. Thus, we can wonder if Shakespeare intended for this play to be entirely ironic, in the fact that almost everyone’s love is superficial, false, or arrogant. Although Twelfth Night…

Baldwin's claim that Shakespeare "defeats all labels" and complicates all battles" in his work. He does this in many different works but the two that strongly support this claim are the plays Othello, in the case of Iago complicating the play and Twelfth Night with the miss representation of which people truly are versus who they claim to be. Iago is one man of many Shakespearean characters who (to me) complicates the story. He is deceiving and makes it hard to understand how anyone can trust…

Foolishness of Love in Twelfth Night Love plays a big role in everyone’s life. In most cases, affection is a wonderful thing that unites people together. But on occasion, love can be mad and crazy. Four hundred and fifteen years ago, William Shakespeare wrote the comedic play, Twelfth Night, in which the central theme of love was discussed. Twelfth Night is a comedic play in which humour is seen through the foolishness of love demonstrated by the characters: Olivia, Antonio, and Sebastian.…

times, portray a three-dimensional, sort of self awareness of their dramatic situation. For example, in The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio often speaks his plans unnecessarily aloud to the audience with comical descriptions. Additionally, Feste in Twelfth Night portrays his "self awareness" through dialogue only the audience would find comical given their omniscient view point and detachment from the story. However, as mere characters in a play, Petruchio and Feste aren't truly self-aware. In…

By: Hashim Twelfth Night - Similarities Between Viola and Olivia Shakespeare’s play, Twelfth Night, introduces two main characters in Viola and Olivia. Regardless of the fact that they share a few differences, Viola and Olivia are two very similar characters with a lot in common. One way they are similar is their personalities. They are both strong-willed and stubborn women. Olivia shows how she is stubborn when she argues with the Clown about her way of mourning. Her mourning methods are…

In some instances, Shakespeare 's play 'Twelfth Night ' could be seen as a romantic comedy due to the common themes of despair and infatuation that the audience find to be amusing. The play 's main focus is romantic love, and the many aspects of comedy derive from seeing characters pining after one another. However, the play itself could be seen as a satire due to the stereotypical vision of love that is created. Shakespeare often mocks the idealistic image of love by demonstrating emotions as…

Twelfth Night and She’s the Man Many people struggle in discovering who they truly are in certain situations. Some struggle with career choices, relationships, religion, and so many other things that life throws at you. The Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a comedic play about identity, true and false love, and adaption to new situations. This is also found in the movie based of the play called She’s the Man. In both versions a young woman named Viola makes a choice that effects many of…

me to stand straight. You know what that is? Listen now. I am going to use a word. Freedom! Ja, I have heard them talk it. Freedom! That’s what the White man gave us. I have got my feelings too, sister. It was a big I had when I stood there. That’s why I laughed, why I was happy. When we picked up our things and started to walk I wanted to sing. It was freedom! (203)”. Boesman is taking the whole apartheid situation as a joke or something he can joke with. Their homelessness and have said that…