All Has Been Exposed: The Love Triangle

Orsino's love, however, is a courtly love. He claims to be in love with Olivia but seems rather to be in love with the idea of love and the behavior of a lover. Orsino is a Petrachan lover who chooses an object that will not return his love. Because he is not ready for commitment, he courts Olivia in a formal way. By sending his messengers to her house instead of going himself, he does not have to speak to her directly. Early in the play, Viola realises that Orsino's love for Olivia is denied and that she would also reject all men for a period of seven years. Viola believes that Orsino might not be rejected if he visited Olivia himself and says to him: "I think not so, my lord," but Orsino, not wanting to see Olivia himself and wanting to keep up the role of the disappointed lover, insists that Cesario woo her.

entangles Viola, Duke, and Olivia. In both the play and the movie, the love triangle is identical; Duke Orsino is infatuated with Olivia, who is in love with Cesario, while Cesario loves the Duke. This complication foreshadows several conflicts that occur in the story, such as, Malvolio’s love for

Viola is sent by the Duke to woo Olivia even though Viola wants to marry the Duke.

In the movie, the real Sebastian returns to America faster than Viola expected. Olivia sees Sebastian exit the cab he rode back in and kisses him, thinking it’s the Sebastian that was actually Viola. He goes along with it and kisses back until she breaks it off and leaves. Orsino, seeing this exchange, thinks Viola as Sebastian has betrayed him in kissing his crush. Later, they have a verbal fight where they stop being friends. This fight impacts the big soccer game the school has later, because Orsino refuses to pass the ball to Viola as Sebastian, costing the team many goals. “Duke! Duke! I'm open! Give me the ball! Duke! Hey, over here! I'm open”, exclaims Viola as Sebastian, “...Shut up, man”, Orsino bitterly replies. “Duke, I know you're mad at me,” Viola pleas. But it falls on deaf ears when Orsino angrily remarks “Don't talk to me. Get out of my face”. This discourse resembles the banter between Viola and Orsino after he finds out that Cesario may not be who he seems. He distrusts Cesario and refuses to speak with him or heed to reason until the real Sebastian shows up and diffuses the situation. Both iterations have a point where they don’t know what to believe, so they cut it short by cutting the masquerading Viola out entirely until all resolves and both Violas forgiven and even courted. Overall though, it is truthful that while the movie and the play mirror each other’s plots, the

A person's desires for love is so powerful that they want the loved one all to themselves. This is an act of selfishness seen through Duke Orsino he tells Curio and Valentine his messengers that he was the first one who had fallen in love with Olivia, and that Olivia is refusing him only because of her dead

Even though she is falling for Duke Orsino, she continues to be a man, and help him get Olivia. “My master loves her dearly, and I, poor monster, fond as much on him. Ands he, mistaken, seems to dote on me. What will become of this? As I am a man, my state is desperate for my master’s love.” (Act II. ii) She even delivers love letters from Duke Orsino to Olivia. Her love for Duke Orsino is growing, and the pressure is building up. Although, she keeps staying strong and continues to help him. Another example is in Act II. iv. Viola and Orsino discuss love, and the beauty of love. Viola starts to hint about loving Orsino, her passion and love for him taking over. Even though he doesn’t notice, her determination to be Cesario starts fading. “Too well what love women to men may owe, In faith, they are as true of heart as we. My father had a daughter loved a man. As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman, I should your

Viola repeatedly professed Orsino’s love to Olivia even though it meant the possible risk of Olivia and Orsino getting married. Viola says “I’ll do my best to woo your lady. Yet a bartful strife: Woe’er I woo, myself would be his wife” (75). This shows the audience how much Viola wanted Orsino to be happy even though it hurt Viola to see Orsino love another woman. There is no love more genuine than when a person sacrifices their own happiness in order to make their lover happy. This is especially true because during the time period of Twelfth Night, a woman’s success was measured by her ability to marry well. By helping Orsino court Olivia, Viola jeopardized her chances to a socially advantageous marriage. Viola loved Orsino so much that she was willing to sacrifice not only her personal happiness, but also her monetary success. Through Viola’s character Shakespeare demonstrates his hopefulness that true love

By comparing catching feelings to catching a plague, Olivia reveals she believes love to be a painful sickness. In other words, Olivia immediately regrets her love for Cesario as she knows it will cause her to suffer. Because of her love, she tries numerous times to get Cesario to marry her, always failing because Cesario [Viola] had feelings for another. Later in the story Olivia stops a fight in the courtyard between Sir Toby and Sebastian, who she thinks is Cesario. After stopping the brawl, Olivia askes Sebastian if he’d “be ruled by [her]” (4.2.67-8).

Through duke's perseverant nature the countess is forced to deny his love on numerous occasions, repetition is evident in Act I scene V, in which Olivia, a countess of Illyria has to constantly reinstate that she will not accept Orsino's love for her until her 7 year mourning of her brothers death is over: “Your Lord does know my mind. I cannot love him.” “A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him; He might have took his answer long ago.” Olivia emphasizes her pain and anguish for her brother death in her 7-year celibacy and refusal in accepting the duke's proposal thus proving courtly

In the opening scene of the play, the Duke expresses his feelings of love "If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die......" It appears from this quote that Orsino is in love with the idea of being in love. His speech is full of melodramatic words which show that he is over indulgent of love. His feelings of love for Olivia are so intense that he seems overwhelmed by his thoughts of her. As Orsino feels so fanatical about pursuing Olivia, you could claim that he is obsessed with her. The Duke thinks he loves Olivia, but has he ever even spoken to her? The Duke is drawn to an emotion which he believes is love. In doing so, he has created a false image of her and so really is in love with an illusion that he puts Olivia 's name too. Orsino does not seem to know Olivia 's personality. The Duke is drawn to Olivia because of what she can offer him: status, wealth, and beauty "O when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Me thought she purged the air of pestilence ". He feels that marrying Olivia would bring him ultimate happiness. The Duke finds it hard to distinguish between feelings of passion and physical attraction. This is proven when he is talking to Cesario about his views on women in Act 2 scene 4. "For women are as roses whose fair flower, Being once displayed doth fall that very hours". His philosophy is that women 's beauty fades with time. The Duke adores Olivia for what she can offer him as he is very

As the story continues, the plot gets more confusing because Lady Olivia begins to develop deep feelings for Cesario who is actually Viola. This creates the love triangle. Viola is falling in love with Duke Orsino, but he thinks Viola is a young man. Duke Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, and Lady Olivia is developing feelings for Cesario, who is Viola in disguise. It is complicated because everyone is in love with someone who loves someone else. This love triangle is based on lies and deceit all

In Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night we are presented with an extreme love triangle that consists of the three main characters in the play, Viola disguised as Cesario, Duke Orsino, and Countess Olivia. Viola ends up falling in love with Duke Orsino who is madly in love with Olivia. Shakespeare presents various situations that allow the reader to determine the relationship before it is truly presented. Viola was put into a very tough situation when she had to put her feelings aside the help the Duke try and be with Olivia. She had to remember that her objective was to help the Duke regardless of what her feelings for him may have been. This is a difficult position to be in because having to watch the person you care about turn around and want to be with someone else is devastating. So in terms of love she had to put her romantic feelings aside and be a friend when it was needed most. The reader may feel as if Viola had put herself in this position due to her being masked as Cesario, DukeOrsino’s right hand man and closest

Written by one of the best writers in the modernist era in the 20th century, a great story by the name of ‘’Araby’’ emerges. This great short novel was written by James Joyce. In the story Araby, Joyce’s main focal point is the young man who portrays where he lives in North Dublin Street with his family who is his uncle and aunt in a household. The author reminisces the time when he used to run with his friends throughout ‘’the dark muddy lanes of the house to avoid his uncle or when Mangan’s sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea’’ (Joyce 243). The young man is obsessed and deeply in love with the young girl, who’s her appearance was well-defined by the light from the door half way opened ‘’Her dress swung as she moved he body, and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side”(Joyce 243). The author also mentions about the previous house owner, a priest who passed away and left in the back-drawing room several books that he occasionally took a glance at. The young boy’s dominant personality trait is his determination. This results in disappointment and frustration as portrayed by James Joyce in Araby.

The Duke showed his unpredictable nature when he learned that Cesario was a girl. Upon realizing that Cesario was actually Viola, he fell in love with her. Moments earlier the Duke threatened to murder Cesario for Olivia’s love. The Duke is persistent, for four acts of the play the Duke’s love for Olivia was intense. He refused to stop loving her despite her resistance. “Once more, Cesario, Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty” (II.iv. 80-81). The Duke is domineering. He tried to convince everyone that Olivia was possible of loving him. The Duke disregard his employees’ guidance to forget Olivia and he forced them to second his opinion. For example, Cesario told the Duke that he should refrain from his continuous attempts to make advances on Olivia. The Duke responded by making a speech that reinforced his love for Olivia and stated his belief that she could not comprehend the strength of her love for him. The Duke’s behaviour is unorthodox, comparable to Malvolio’s surreal

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