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While she is on the convent she creates a disguise using the clothing available to her. This not only allows for her to hide her femininity, but it also allows for her to create a masculine façade. Throughout these two decades of living as a man, Catalina cultivates a masculine persona, and by the time this book comes to an end there are no traditional female characteristics obvious in her nature. During her time disguised as a man, De Erauso tests her disguise by going back to the convent where her mother and father are. No one at the convent recognizes her, which in turn boosts her confidence.
Viola reveals that she was acting as Sabastian while he was away because her soccer team got cut, and she was showing how that girls can be better at soccer than boys. So she revealed that she was a girl by lifting up her shirt and Sabastian revealed that he was a boy by pulling his pants down. But Sabastian did not even know that his sister was acting as him for the whole two weeks while he was away playing in a band. The principle was shocked when Sabastian pulled his pants down and viola lifted her shirt up.
Twenty-one is the number of transgender teens that were murdered as of 2015. (Jennings, 141). These are people who were trying to be themselves and trying to live their lives to the fullest. Forty percent have been assaulted in some type of way by others. (Jennings, 203).
In the play viola uses the name Cesaro, but in the movie she uses her brother's name Sebastian. In the play viola didn't really switch from viola to Cesario, she just stayed as Cesario, but in the movie viola switched from Sebastian to viola a lot. In both Twelfth night and she's the man in the end Duke Orsino and viola fall in love. Olivia and Sebastian also fall in love at the end. In the middle of the play and the movie it was still a crazy love mess.
Olivia Lynch Mrs. Butterfield AP Lit 5/1/16 When you are ready to dive into the vast world of Shakespeare, you can begin by using what is known as a critical lens. The lens that may help you understand the background details of one of Shakespeare’s plays would be the Historical lens. Although there are many different lens that you can use to interpret a story, the Historical Lens is a great lens to dive into to find what really influenced the great ideas of William Shakespeare as he wrote Hamlet including the role gender plays, the comparison of Elizabeth Tudor, and the religious incorporation throughout the play. First, we can take the Historical Lens and dive into the idea of how gender roles were highly represented in Hamlet
Olivia loves Cesario and does everything to impress him, but Cesario (Viola) has mad feelings for Duke Orsino and does everything he orders for him to do. It all fits together, but at the end seems to all work out. Duke Orsino is madly in love with Olivia most of the
A mythological allusion is being used. The goddess Moira was the goddess of Fate. She controlled the thread of life and she has the authority over the destinies of people. The goddess of Fate is able to cut the thread when it is time to end a man’s life. The slim woman is described as sleepwalking since she is so absorbed in her knitting and is barely conscious of her surroundings.
Numerous individuals in Twelfth Night expect a mask of some kind. The most evident illustration is Viola, who puts on the attire of a man and makes everybody trust that she is a male. This camouflage causes incredible sexual disarray, as an odd adoration triangle results in which Viola is infatuated with Orsino, who cherishes Olivia—who adores Cesario, the male character that Viola expect. In this manner, by dressing his hero in male pieces of clothing, Shakespeare indicates how pliant and self-preposterous human sentimental fascination can be. Another character in camouflage is Malvolio, who dresses strangely (in crossed straps and yellow tights) in the trust of winning Olivia.
Twelfth Night seems to present gender as a mask to be worn and taken off at will, a fluid concept that changes to suit one’s needs and emotions. By playing Cesario, Viola partly becomes this version of herself, so Olivia, by loving Cesario, has feelings for Viola by extension. When Sebastian makes his reveal, Olivia marries him for two reasons. The first is an external piece of reasoning, being that in Elizabethan comedies such as this, heterosexual pairings must happen for the play to follow the fairly strict expectations of a comedy. The second falls to Sebastian’s demeanor.
Instead of a scene, we did an entire act. In the act, Duke Orsino ends up seeing Cesario dressed up as Viola and finds her revoltingly hideous. After this, he refuses her. Viola is so angry from this rejection that she vows to go murdering beautiful people in the land of Illyria. This causes Duke Orsino to ban her from Illyria.
For a woman to show interests in current affairs, express opinions, write literature was unladylike. Viola, fending for herself, in distant land, disguises herself as a boy named Cesario. Cross-dressing, in Elizabethan society, was seen as highly immoral. Viola 's male disguise “allows her to escape the confinement of a single perspective and a single voice by momentarily unfixing sexual stereotypes (184)”(Melchoir). Furthermore, Viola’s situation in Twelfth Night is not typical of an Elizabethan woman because she proves herself to be capable and intelligent.
Vanity, one of Twelfth Night 's major concerns, is displayed throughout the play by characters who are plagued with emotional conditions which prevent them from loving others. The lives of Illyria 's Duke Orsino and Countess Olivia, for example, remain circumscribed by vanity and narcissism. Similarly, Olivia 's steward, Malvolio, remains encumbered by vanity and narcissism, while Olivia 's Uncle Toby shows himself to be selfish, and his drinking partner, Sir Andrew, stands as a caricature of vanity. In contrast, Viola, an outsider shipwrecked upon Illyria 's shore, suffers solely from grief for her sea-drowned twin brother. In further contrast, Olivia 's lady-in-waiting, Maria, displays none of these characteristics, but instead operates as the play
In Twelfth Night, Viola and Olivia are the central characters to the play’s plot. Each are young women that take approaches to dealing with the people around them, which are mainly men. There is much trickery that goes on in Twelfth Night, but the ending is for the most part happy. Viola marries Orsino and Olivia marries Sebastian, but the events leading up to this are more or less chaotic. Ultimately, I argue that while Olivia uses her higher social status in order to maintain control of herself and others, Viola resorts to trickery in order to bring about her desires.
She further suggests that there is a tendency to look beyond cross-dressing or ‘transvestism’ as it challenges the binary of ‘female and ‘male’. Garber is careful not to call it the ‘third sex’; instead she classifies it as ‘third’ which puts into question “identities previously conceived as stable, unchallengeable, grounded and known” (Garber 13). Keeping this in mind it is also important to answer certain questions regarding the cross-dressing motif. Questions such as does the use of cross-dressing motif point towards an interest in the historical practices or does it bring out the contemporary debate around gender? Secondly, what is accomplished by using this motif: - blurring of the gender differences or the heightening of the same?
Shakespeare uses Viola (Cesario) as an example of a mechanism that can throw internal conflicts into temporary chaos. Viola willingly faces whatever comes in her way. Her love for Duke Orsino seems too constant and true, unlike the other characters in the play. The temporary chaos of the play is when Viola falls in love with Orsino, who falls in love with Olivia, who on the other hand falls in love with Viola’s disguise, Cesario. This love triangle is very complicated as none of them realize that Cesario is a woman, making this an internal conflict for Viola, as she cannot ‘truly’ love whom she wants.