Viola

in love almost instantly. Viola, who is posing as a man servant to Duke Orsino, proclaims her love for the Duke practically out of nowhere. An example of how the people don’t give very much thought to love. In modern day people take love as a very powerful thing, that is to be take seriously and not played with. But the characters just see love as a game and they don't take it seriously. Furthermore, the characters all have dangerous games surrounding love. Viola and Sebastian are twin…

since she has no idea that Cesario is actually a woman. On the other hand, maybe the situation with Olivia and Cesario demonstrates that one’s sexuality is not as definitive as one would initially believe. The feelings that Olivia and Orsino have for Viola are never truly clear, which demonstrates that one’s gender and sexuality can be rather fluid. These two concepts of gender and sexuality do not necessarily remain constant over…

undying love for Olivia vanishes at the end of the play when he marries Viola at the drop of a hat. Olivia’s love for Viola or “Cesario” is disregarded when she marries Sebastian. Malvolio wants Olivia’s affection but he truly desires a higher social ranking. Spontaneity is part of love's irrationality. The marriages happen suddenly without regret. Love is uncontrollable, which is seen vastly throughout the play. Olivia falls for Viola even though she swears to only mourn her brother. The…

situations. Unrequited love specifically. The love of Olivia to Viola, Viola and Orsino, Orsino to Olivia, and humorously enough, the love that Toby and Maria find. All these characters share a common goal: capture the love they desperately, and irrevocably want. While some may have more direct approach, others find it in the end, in an almost fairy tale ending. Love is a mysterious, lecherous being,…

love, it tracks the journey of realization and allows the audience to discover the differences between passion and true love. In this essay I will discuss the different forms of love portrayed within Twelfth Night, focusing predominantly on Orsino, Viola and Olivia. I will explore how the nature of sexual identity plays a central role in this journey to find love and lastly I will explore how…

The Inequality of equality “She shoots she scores” is not a phrase heard often and when it is said most of the time the team in question is composed of all females. For Viola Hastings in She’s The Man a very modern and well done adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night Viola was playing for the Men’s soccer team at Illyria High school. This now CO-ED athletic team made possible by the ever famous and largely talked about Title IX. Title IX most commonly known amongst college students as it…

females are to stick with jobs that require minimum physical strength. Compared to the real world, the movie She’s The Man focuses its whole plot on the stereotypes women face. The protagonist Viola Hastings’ team is cancelled because the school, Cornwall, does not require a female soccer team. When Viola finds out, she requests a chance to join the boys soccer team to which the coach refuses. To prove the coach erroneous,…

between Duke Orsino, Viola, and the Countess Olivia where Orsino is trying to woo Olivia, who refuses his advances because she is mourning the death of her brother; Viola is in love with Orsino, but can’t show her affection since she is disguised as a man; and Olivia is in love with Viola disguised as Cesario. After all sorts of different complications getting in between their love for each other, Olivia marries Viola’s brother, Sebastian who was believed to be dead, and Viola and Orsino marry…

The artwork evokes the meaning of birth, death, time, human consciousness, baptism and it also links to violas psychological experience as a child. During the beginning of the film a man standing naked near the pool contemplates then decides to leap into the water, this links to when viola jumped into a lake as a child, this traumatic experience has been endeavored into majority of viola’s works as it was a crucial event in his life, he often describes…

Mama covers an 18-month span chronicling the battle an 89-year-old grandmother, Viola, has in keeping her grandson, Walter, out of the foster care program. Walter’s mother was an addict who delivered him while she was under the influence, only to disappear completely from his life shortly after. Subsequently, while on his deathbed, Walter’s father, begged his mother to take care of Walter, though it would seem that Viola was unable to secure custody of Walter immediately following the death of…