Twelfth Night

The use of deception often has an intentional purpose, whether it is running away from the mob or playing a character who represents a lost brother. In Twelfth Night the character Viola portrays a man named Cesario who represents her twin brother whom she thinks died in a boat crash. She uses the identity of Cesario as a form of mourning, while also keeping his image alive. While Viola uses the appearance of Cesario to mourn, Olivia tries to deceive everyone around her by putting on a veil and…

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…

he 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.…

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-…

“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…

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…

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has a great deal of hurt in this play. Reading ‘Twelfth Night’ would make that believable. Twelfth Night is about twins who are separated in a shipwreck. The female twin, Viola, dresses up as a eunuch trying to woo, Olivia a countess, for the Duke, Orsino; who Viola fell in love with. Then when the twins find each other again they find themselves in a misunderstood situation. Romantic comedies are based on happiness with a little bit of tragedy added, but Twelfth…

The two tales depicts the female's perspective on love and lust which breaks the stereotype of women being too virtuous to express their desires. "Twelfth Night" portrays the idea of falling in love at first sight in which Viola and Olivia fall for the man of their desires. For Viola, her love for Orsino happens suddenly and with no actual reasoning, as she admits to falling in love with him after being told to woo Olivia for his sake. In Olivia's case, despite claiming to be in mourning for…

Twelfth Night is a story that is written by William Shakespeare. Love is a major topic in the Twelfth Night because many major characters in the story fall in love with each other. In the story, the nature of love does not follow the guidelines of social class. Even though love does not follow these guidelines, the characters in the story still realize what social class they are associated in and it sometimes stops them from seeking out certain characters. There are a few love connections that…

bowls of bird seeds. The children must identify which item does not belong, and why. This task proves very easy, demonstrating that humans can easily single out an anomaly from a pattern. This theme corresponds with William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy with an outcast. The main characters, Orsino, Olivia, and Viola, entangle themselves in a hopeless love triangle and act without reason. Even many of the minor characters fall under love’s spell or behave merrily, enjoying…