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and 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…

“fancy-sick” for the love of Olivia” Viola’s character are the problematic events that resolve throughout the play. When Viola arrives to Orsino, pretending to be Cesario, he sends Olivia to sends his message of love. When Viola arrives to Olivia’s house rather than persuading Olivia to marry Orsino, Viola ends up causing Olivia to fall in love with her. Olivia falling in love with Viola/Cesario is the first step towards a new society, however it also causes greater…

brother Sebastian in the wreck. Viola decides to serve the duke, but realizing that she will be unable to because of her gender decides to use a disguise. She assumed the identity Cesario, which allows her to take on her brother’s history and behavior. Viola, disguised as Cesario becomes a page in the service of Orsino, the duke. Viola tries to use her disguise as Cesario to woo Lady Olivia, a countess. Olivia, instead of falling for Orsino, becomes woo’d by Viola, who against is still…

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…

beauty and resourcefulness, Viola is the most blatant embodiment of deception in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Altering her appearance in order to ensure her safety, Viola seeks help from a sea captain to obscure her identity: “Conceal me what I am, and be my aid / For such disguise as haply shall become / The form of my intent” (1.3.53-55). Viola…

William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night takes place in the kingdom of Illyria, where twin brother and sister Sebastien and Viola become shipwrecked, both assuming the other is dead. Viola, a young woman with slight features similar to those of her brother, decides to disguise herself as a eunuch and calls herself Cesario in order to serve the Duke Orsino, for whom she falls deeply in love. However, when her brother Sebastien shows up in Orsino’s court, the plot implodes into a mess of confusion…

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…

Later, the girl reveals her name is Viola but for a while she stays mute. Todd has a hard time getting used to the fact that Viola doesn’t have Noise because to him silence meant you were empty, you felt nothing, you were basically nothing. Right after Todd earns Viola’s trust, Aaron comes back angry and starts strangling Todd, nearly killing him before Manchee bites Aaron in the calf. When Aaron realizes Viola had escaped he takes off after her and captures her. Todd follows…

From line 80 - 126 in Act II Scene IV, it continues to show Duke Orsino suffering the torments of Olivia’s unrequited feelings. It begins as he speaks to Viola/Cesario of his love for the countess of Illyria, and all of its imperfections. However, Viola does not completely approve of Orsino's cynical view of women, as he argues that there can be no comparison between the kind of love that a man has for a woman and vice-versa. In the start, Cesario reminds Orsino that Olivia has denied his…

for such struggles is the use of disguise by one of the parties involved, namely Viola. In Viola’s dramatic soliloquy, found in lines 14-41 of Act 2 scene 2, Shakespeare employs tone, diction, and literary devices, such as personification, to explain how her disguise has conjured up conflict in the form of a complicated love triangle. At the beginning of this passage, the tone seems to be one of confusion as Viola tries to make sense of what had happened with Malvolio and the ring. This soon…