Viola is considered to be the hero in the play.Viola is the only character that truly knows what she wants. Viola is in love with The Due and she is truly passionate about him this is shown when she is describing the love she has for him in the line “She pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy she sat like patience on a monument, smiling at grief was not this love indeed?”(Shakespeare). Viola causes many conflicts with her identity. She must be herself but also be Cesario. Viola finds herself forgeting who she truly is because she is around people who don't know her truly. Viola feels pressure she must keep her identity a secret but she would also like to tell The Duke that she isn't a man because she likes him. All of this …show more content…
Viola is very confident in herself. Viola believes in the woman's traditional need to be safeguarded by a strong male. Yet because she has been deprived of both her father and her brother, she makes the bold choice of taking on that role herself. Instead of turning to the Duke and asking for shelter, her impulse, on landing alone in Illyria, is to "conceal me what I am" until she is ready to be "delivered to the world"" (Hamilton). This proves that Viola can provide for herself. Viola's intelligence, engaging wit, and immense amount of charm helps her obtain her position with The Duke, and they are also the same qualities which cause Lady Olivia to immediately fall in love with her. It is her charming personality that won her the sea captain's loyalty, without his help her disguise would have never succeeded. "Viola's charm lies in her simple, straightforward, good-humored personality. She could have used her disguise for all sorts of connivings, yet she is forthright and honest in all of her dealings with Lady Olivia and with Duke Orsino, albeit she does use her disguise to entertain the audience with delightful verbal