Chaos and Order in Twelfth Night

    It is not unusual that the fool should be a prominent figure and make an important contribution in forming the confusion and the humor in an Elizabethan drama. In William Shakespeare's comedy, Twelfth Night, Feste the clown is not the only fool who is subject to foolery. He and many other characters combine their silly acts and wits to invade other characters that either escape reality or live a dream. In Twelfth Night, Feste, Maria and Sir Toby are the fools that make the comedy work in many senses.

through his vanity is easily fooled into thinking it is he who she loves although

Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy which is created through a complex circle of love designed by deception, disguise and practical jokes. The characters use of deception within the play create many unintentional and undesirable outcomes. Through the art of deception, Shakespeare explores the ideas of deceit and self-deception which in turn creates comedic situations within the play. Many of the characters go through extremes in order to get what they want, which is the love that they desire, by deceiving everyone and at times, even deceiving themselves.

Throughout the twelfth night  a play by William Shakespeare, the author conveys the theme of impulsive decisions

The Stratford version of gulling Malvolio scene which is a stage play from Twelfth night written by William Shakespeare is better than the Multicultural version that is presented in a movie version of the play. The Stratford Theater presented the character as very funny and interesting to watch because of the tongue-tied jokes. In the Multicultural, movie version the characters of Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Fabian are shown as very aggressive and malevolent people also Maria who is Olivia's maid is shown as a malicious woman who wants to make a fool out of Malvolio who is Olivia's steward and like's Olivia. The Multicultural version didn't have any background music which is not amusing for some audience, but Stratford Theater had many tones

Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy, and romantic love is the play’s main focus. Despite the fact that the play offers a happy ending, in which the various lovers find one another and achieve wedded bliss, Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain. Many of the characters seem to view love as a kind of curse, a feeling that attacks its victims suddenly and disruptively. Various characters claim to suffer painfully from being in love, or, rather, from the pangs of unrequited love. At one point, Orsino depicts love dolefully as an “appetite” that he wants to satisfy and cannot, at another point; he calls his desires “fell and cruel hounds”. Olivia more bluntly describes love as a

The moment I have decided to write about is right after the ship wreck leading into Violas transformation. In theatre Calgary’s interpretation of “Twelfth Night”, the director took a much more comedic and modern twist on the play in the use of modern references and the elimination of most tragic scenes from the performance. The standard script was seamlessly turned into a silly classic due to the amazing designs of Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and the ability to make the simplest things comedic. A lot of their set and costumes where based off of puppetry. This became a key component in the ship wrecking scene, when you saw a tiny vessel filled with heads to resemble a ship floating across a massive painted landscape of the moving sea. The heads where incredibly large compared to the size of the ship which made it quite the comedic scene. The vessel was skillfully

Twelfth Night and The Servant of Two Masters both relate to this course’s theme of the carnivalesque. Both plays share the commonality of having a clown, or a fool; in Twelfth Night it is Feste or the Fool, and in The Servant of Two Masters it is Truffaldino. Both characters play the fool in contrasting ways to express similar yet different forms of the carnivalesque. During carnival, laughter is prominent; people are laughing together, they are laughing at each other, and they are being laughed at. The laughter of carnival is both malicious and happy and everyone is included in it. Feste and Truffaldino show the different aspects of carnival laughter through their portrayals of the fool. Feste plays the role of the artificial fool

Courage is a virtue which belongs to everyone, it just takes a grim environment to induce feelings and actions in relation to it. Courage is the potential to undertake a grueling situation and transform it into a virtuous circumstance, which otherwise could have lead to one’s dismay. Furthermore, courage is greatly demonstrated and integrated into several of the texts, plays, and academic compositions analyzed and evaluated throughout the duration of the semester. Three of the several texts that contain exceptional specimens of courage include The Other Family by Himani Bannerji, Borders authored by Thomas King, and the comedic play Twelfth Night composed by William Shakespeare. Primarily, the daughter in the short story The Other Family

Towards the end of the play, as the Athenian nobles prepare for the mechanicals’ performance, Theseus remarks, “How shall we find the concord of this discord?”

The introduction of Twelfth Night, written by M.M. Mahood, provides a cultural setting for readers to better understand the play. Although Mahood wrote the introduction for Twelfth Night, the information also allows readers to appreciate the magical freedom that A Midsummer Night’s Dream encompasses. Mahood delves into the cultural significance of Puritanism early in the 17th century through the character of Malvolio. Although Twelfth Night is a comedy, the presence of morally strict Puritanism affects the lightness of the play. The Puritan Revolution took away the foolish fun and celebration in life. Mahood connects the cultural context with Malvolio’s objection of fun throughout the play. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is completely and utterly entertaining, fun, and provocative; the play is essentially everything Puritanism frowned upon. The cultural setting provided by Mahood allows readers to appreciate A Midsummer’s Night Dream for its magic, fantasy, sex, and pure foolishness because that was socially acceptable at that time.

This play of love is just as dramatic as that of Romeo and Juliet, but not nearly so tragic. A Midsummer’s Night Dream may start out with chaos much like how Romeo and Juliet end with chaos, but this play ends in peace and happiness. How the characters get to that point however was rather difficult. It was full of stress and drama; confusion and chaos; singing fairies and a man with an ass’ head. This tale of four lovers is also the tale of a warrior and a duke; a civilist and a king of shadows; and a mischievous sprite called Robin Goodfellow.

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a romantic comedy, and romantic love is the play’s main focus. The play starts by following Viola, a girl who has been shipwrecked. Viola and the many other characters face many obstacles due to who they love. Despite the fact that the play offers a happy ending, in which the various characters find one another and achieve wedded bliss, Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain. Throughout the play, many of the characters seem to view love as a kind of curse, a feeling that attacks its victims suddenly and disruptively. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare shows that the theme is that strong and abrupt emotions, like love and hate, can be the cause of suffering.

Fools, ever since their inception these figures have been well known to be able to spread laughter like a plague in the 14th century through 'blissful ignorance.' A fool, however, is not always a fool, for in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the fool is the mastermind. Feste, the court jester, plays a pivotal role in the play, so far as breaking the stereotype of the average buffoon and actually portraying a man with a razor sharp wit, through his skillful word play, unsolicited yet wise advice, and good ole humor.

Through the example of Maria’s momentary arrogance, and Thomas Hobbes idea of a ‘sudden glory’ it is clear that Carnivalesque is important to the comical nature of ‘Twelfth Night’ through the nature of Carnivalesque, arises the amusing side of this play, because the breakdown of class boundaries and the ability for the lower authority to resist higher authority, is unlike ordinary life, therefore the nature of Carnivalesque presented in this play depicts an exaggerated view on life.