Twelfth Night Essays

In the Twelfth Night, disguises and masks are used to add to the comical nature of the play. The disguises that are used in the play conceal the identities of characters as well as show the truth and negative sides of a person. In the Twelfth Night, Shakespeare implies that disguises are a form of deception and can only lead to confusion and negativity. Viola’s disguise as Cesario leads to a confusing love triangle between Viola, Olivia, and Orsino, in which no one knows who loves who. Before Viola

Shakespeare’s use of comedic features such as dramatic irony. Despite the creation of exuberant comedy within the play, principal sub-plots in ‘Twelfth Night’ such as the gulling and confinement of Malvolio, prove that when looked at in more depth, to some extent, the play’s comedy cloaks themes of cruelty and suffering. The very title of the play, ‘Twelfth Night’, directly links to the twelve days of festivity that traditionally took place during the Elizabethan period. During this time, not only were

In Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Shakespeare subliminally gives his thoughts and views on Elizabethan era. Through the characters, Shakespeare uses extremities that were considered shocking to his audience to aid him in exploring ideas of homosexuality and religion. In Elizabethan era, homosexuality, or even any signs of a private relationship was regarded as immoral. Tom MacFaul, author of, Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, points out that “[A]ny friendship that was too

play, The Twelfth Night Viola dresses up as a boy in order to get a job for Duke Orsino. In the movie She’s the Man Viola’s soccer team gets cut due to not enough girls wanting to play. Leading her to wanting to join the boys soccer team. The coach for the team says that girls aren’t capable of playing on the boys team. So, she dresses up as her brother Sebastian and goes to the school Illyria to play on the boys soccer team and beat her old school 's team. In the play The Twelfth Night, Violas boat

The opening scene in act one of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is an important moment in the reading of the play because it directs the audience in how to interpret the themes and characters that are being presented. The themes of self knowledge, romantic love, and realism and the artificial are introduced in this passage to advise us of their deceptive and sometimes unstable nature as they reveal themselves during the course of the play. The characters in this passage, Duke Orsino and Olivia primarily

One of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, Twelfth Night, is full of romance and comedy. It tells the tale of twins, Sebastian and Viola, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola assumes that Sebastian is dead and disguises himself as a man called Cesario. He finds work as a page in the house of Duke Orsino and becomes one or Orsino’s favorites. Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, so he sends Cesario to call upon her. However, Cesario (Viola) is falling in love with Orsino while Lady Olivia is falling

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

In William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will, the strongest woman character, Olivia, presents traits of mastery throughout the play. The play begins in Illyria where a female named Viola undergoes a shipwreck, thinking her brother Sebastian is astray. The captain who found her tells about a Duke named Orsino who is in love with a woman named Olivia. Viola then decides to dress as a man and titles herself as “Cesario”, now beginning to work for Duke Orsino but swiftly finds herself falling

In this passage the word “music” stood out the most. “If music be the food of love play on”. Twelfth Night, act one scene one (p4). Orsino company the music because he feel that the music expressing his feeling to Olvia. He used the words “excess” to explain his love’s suffering, and food as the love’s nutrition.Orsino do not know how to make Olivia fall in love with him, but he instead love her deeply enough to wait for her so many years. No one has understand how far Orsino loved Olivia, but by

behind this ‘wall’ they have created in front of themselves. In the play “Twelfth Night”, William Shakespeare demonstrates what mistaken identity does to a person, whether it be intentional or not. A young woman, Viola, is washed ashore after a shipwreck and decides to disguise herself as the male Cesario. Now as Cesario, she works as page for Duke Orsino and becomes entangled in a disastrous mess of identity confusion. “Twelfth Night,” displays the misunderstanding that follows mistaken identity, and

the characters in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night each change from the beginning of the writing to the end of the writing. They all have different personalities, from Feste, the mischievous clown to Sir Andrew Aguecheek, an arrogant man who is swallowed in the idea that he is witty and cunning. The setting has a large influence on the characters, as well as the plot. All of these combined add up to one of the most impactful and famous plays of all time : Twelfth Night, or What You Will. At the beginning

Twelfth Night In the play Twelfth Night there were many themes within the play. For this essay I will be focusing on the theme manipulation, rather than the other themes. This theme occurs commonly in the play, but I will be focusing on the three most important ones. One of the many uses of manipulation was Toby telling Andrew that the money he was giving him went to wooing Olivia. While in reality it was being spent to Tobys and Andrews drinks. Toby also manipulated Andrew in many different cases

The story of Twelfth Night has a main focus of love, the play itself is a romantic comedy. Shakespeare examines different types of love: true love, friendship, and the idea of love. Shakespeare carefully illustrates the emotion of love with a lot of detail, and you will notice that most of the characters are only in love with the idea of love. Twelfth Night consist of many different types of love and many different people loving everyone and anyone , however most of the characters do not care to

College’s production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, director Tim Espinosa beautifully executed Shakespeare’s skillfully written portrayal of mistaken identity through scenery, costumes, and music. The simple, yet intriguing set with constantly moving pieces, and multiple levels kept the audiences eyes moving around the stage. The costumes in this production were colorful and elegant. The music played by Feste was beautifully placed throughout the play. Twelfth Night is a light and cheerful

Orsino will be pleased with her services. The captain agrees, and promises to not tell anyone of Viola's true identity. We are introduced to Sir Toby Belch, Olivia's cousin. We quickly infer that he is drinks a lot of alchohol, stays out late into the night, is fairly stubborn and rowdy by

In Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” he outlines the role that deception plays within appearance and reality. This is best explained through Olivia’s interactions between Malvolio, Viola and Sebastian. Deception is a common theme seen with Olivia’s connection between characters. Deceptions effects can be recognized through the character Malvolio. This character believes he has received a love letter with instructions from Olivia. He then goes on to follow the letters instructions by making a fool of

Angel Guerrero Mrs. Batchelor English 3 6 March 2018 Deception in “Twelfth Night” In “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare, disguise and deception have recurrently been used. In many different ways, the themes have been used throughout the plot for varied purposes. While some deceptions are disguised, some deceptions are deceptive hence painting symbolism in the whole of the play. The most overt disguise example of deception in the comedy involves Viola whose use of deception appears when she disguises

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. Viola goes to her brother Sebastian to tell him the recent events. Sebastian refuses to let his sister go alone and opts to go with her. He talks to Olivia who chooses

Viola ex-boyfriend Justin catches them kissing and he began to fight Duke Orsino, due to Duke Orsino telling Justin they can fight it out on the soccer field. Duke Orsino also finds out Viola is Sebastian twin sister, she talked about with him. In Twelfth Night, Feste talks to Sebastian who he thinks is Cesario. Sebastian Girlfriend talks to Viola who is pretending to Sebastian while he is gone. Since Viola is in Sebastian role, she doesn’t know how to react or talk to his girlfriend, so she breaks up

Wisdom and Foolishness is an important theme in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In this play, foolishness is utilized to show that love can make people do foolish and crazy things, particularly with the characters Olivia and Malvolio. In this essay I will explain how Olivia’s love for Cesario and her deceased family make her stubborn, while Malvolio’s love for Olivia makes him gullible and desperate. I will also explain how Feste is the wisest character in the play because he isn’t tangled up in love