Love has an influential impact on the behavior of a society. Orsino, Olivia and Malvolio are three characters in the play “Twelfth night” that are all tremendously affected by love. All have dramatic changes in their character due to love. In the play “Twelfth night” by William Shakespeare, love, and its pursuit, dramatically alters the character's outlook on the outside world. Evidently, the play has many examples of love’s potential.
The character Orsino is one of the best examples of love’s connection to not only the fictional society of the novel but also our society. The duke is obsessed with more with the idea of love than even loving others. In one of his most famous line he says “If music be the food of love, play on;/ give me excess of it, that surfeiting,/ the appetite may sicken, and so die.”(1.1, 1-3). This proves that love has
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In the movie she begins as mourning the loss of her brother and closed off to love from everyone including even duke Orsino. “Give me my veil. Come, throw it o’er my face. We’ll/ once more hear Orsino’s embassy.”(1.5,159-160) Olivia has been repeatedly offered love from Orsino but does not love him back and is annoyed with his obsession for love. Within a small period of time, Olivia immediately backtracks on these promises and falls in love with Orsino’s servant Cesario, who is actually a lady named Viola, impersonated as a male. She asks her servant Malvolio to go after Cesario to show her interest, “Run after that same peevish messenger,/ the county's man. He left this ring behind him,/ would I or not. Tell him I'll have none of it.”(1.5, 290-293) Olivia's views on the world and her mourning for her brother have dramatically changed by just one meeting with Cesario, love has taken over her priorities and she later leads onto a continuous chase of Cesario. Olivia's actions were continuously warped by the pursuit of love throughout the