Hamlet Twelfth Night

“Hamlet” and “Twelfth Night” are two Shakespeare plays of complete opposites. Due to one being written as a tragedy, and the other as a comedy, many comparisons can be drawn between the two plays, on themes and motifs that develop throughout the plays. One of the themes that is easily recognisable in the early stages of both plays, is that of deceit and disguise. In “Hamlet”, we learn early on that Hamlet decides to act as a madman in order to try and weed out a confession from his uncle about the murder of his father. Although he does not actually reveal to any other characters his plan until Act 1 Scene 5, when he tells Horatio that he plans to “put an antic disposition on”, the audience can recognise very early that Hamlet is going to show some kind of deceptive characteristics in order to execute his plan.

William Shakespeare once said that “brevity is the soul of wit.” This is heavily evident in regards to Hamlet and all of his short, witty comments throughout the play. In Act I Scene II Hamlet 's wit comes out in full force during a discussion with his mother, Gertrude, and his uncle/stepfather, Claudius, with Hamlet’s very first words in the play:

Ultimately, Shakespeare enhances the depression that accompanies unrequited love through different thematic topics. Twelfth Night depicts several aspects of love through Viola, and teaches the audience that love may equal unjust misery. Viola’s various complications throughout Twelfth Night develop the thematic topic of love causes suffering. Also, unrequited love arrives with the possibility of agony. Shakespeare teaches society that affection appears everywhere in unlikely situations with diverse

Around the beginning of the seventeenth century, William Shakespeare introduced a piece of literature that is considered one of the most important plays written. The tragedy, Hamlet, is considered to be Shakespeare’s most famous piece, even over Timon of Athens, and Cymbeline. This theatrical performance is based from “Amleth”, the medieval Scandanavian tale told by Saxo Grammaticus. Both plays consist of elements pertaining to justice, revenge, and rightful place in social order. However, Shakespeare incorporated more Elizabethan qualities due to the fact he was a resident of England. The emphasis of ambiguity throughout the drama is the reason this play has been praised and performed since its debut. Hamlet begins with the protagonist, Hamlet, returning home from graduate school to find many things have changed since his departure. Upon his arrival, he learns about his father’s untimely death and also about his uncle Claudius’s incestuous relationship with his recently widowed mother. After a long, sorrowful soliloquy explaining how he feels, the ghost of his Father appears before him demanding that he seek vengeance for his death. The reasoning for his father’s vengeance is because not only is Claudius is now Gertrude’s new husband, but he is also responsible for the old king Hamlet’s death. In this dramatic performance, Shakespeare animates a quinessential antagonist who creates a disastrous dilemma for Hamlet,

We all know it, we know whom it's bye,but you haven't seen it like this. Is this broadway or High School ,well at A.B Lucas’s Hamlet by William Shakespeare you probably wouldn't know the difference. It was a great atmosphere on stage when I saw it on February 28. How the director Kerry Bishop got such a high level of perfection with these students actors only age 14-18 is beyond me but somehow she does it. Speaking of student actors the star of this show Hamlet, Mason Sheaves is somehow not on broadway yet. Gertrude was played by Lauryn Andersson, Horatio was played by Meghan Faulkner,Claudius was played by Nathan Campbell and the last(on my list) great main character Ophelia was played by Marissa Rasmussen.

Wrought with tragedy and revenge, Hamlet embodies the theme of deception and fraudulence. Shakespeare adds dramatic irony and tension to grab the reader’s attention and appeal to their emotions. Throughout the play, characters adroitly construct plans and spy on one another, mainly for power and vengeance. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince Hamlet’s deceptive quest to avenge his father’s murder, Claudius’ murder and scheme, and Polonius’ plans to spy on Hamlet exhibit the theme of trickery and guile which intensifies the dramatic action throughout the play.

William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is considered a tragedy by most who read it and it is very easy to see why based on the ending and the development of the plot and rising action. To contrast that William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night is considered a romantic comedy based on the plot and characters involved in it. With this in mind, the characters use of love as a cause for suffering, the deceit between characters, and the mask that many wear are important elements in William Shakespeare’s plays Hamlet and Twelfth Night. In both Hamlet and Twelfth Night the characters use love as some sort of cause for suffering, though they both use that idea in different ways.

Throughout Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night, there are various depictions of gender identity, which causes different relations among the characters. Many of the characters fall between traditional and non-traditional in terms of their courtship rituals; this eventually leads to gender confusion. In addition, the appealing language influences the characters and their decisions.

When analyzing a pair of twins, people will recognize that they seem very identical, but many would argue that their brains function differently and that they behave differently than each other as well. In William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, two main characters Viola-Cesario and Sebastian are lost in a shipwreck, but later reunite with each other and along their journey they confuse many other characters as they mix one another up. Viola-Cesario and Sebastian are twins who look very similar in appearance, but nevertheless they are actually two opposite characters when it comes to their attitudes and characteristics as they think and behave differently from one another. For instance, Sebastian and Viola-Cesario behave differently from each other since Sebastian is an aggressive person and Viola-Cesario is a peaceful person. However, considering the fact that Viola-Cesario and Sebastian are twins, they still look very similar to each other because Viola-Cesario looks exactly like Sebastian when she disguises herself as Cesario. Furthermore, Sebastian and Viola-Cesario both find love in the play, but they fall in love differently because Sebastian is infatuated by Olivia and Viola truly falls in love with Orsino.

Shakespeare’s play, “Twelfth Night” provides a great deal of insight into gender roles, gender identities, and desire in Elizabethan society. In Shakespearean times, women, and to a much lesser extent, men, were subject to a variety of arbitrary limitations based solely on gender. For example, women could not become actresses, and were practically required to have guardians and protectors. Additionally, both men and women were strictly held to separate sets of explicit standards, expectations and values. These roles that people of each gender were held to were very important to developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships. Those who violated these norms would have generally been looked down upon, or even insulted, especially by

Every major character in ‘Twelfth Night’ experiences some form of love or desire. Shakespeare exhibits intricate love triangles within the play that are only resolved when order is restored. ‘Twelfth Night’ derives much of its comic force by satirising the lovers in the play. Love in the play is generally represented as something that is irresistible, spontaneous and overpowering. Shakespeare portrays it as being dangerous and is compared to disease and suffering. In the first scene of the entire play, Orsino describes music a cure for the absence 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.” This metaphoric phrase establishes love as a theme within ‘Twelfth Night’

William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night can easily be interpreted as a romance play. Given that the majority of the characters in the play in some way or another fall in love, but there are many twists that come with these romantic relationships. Some of the characters fall in love with the same character, others fall in love with a character that loves another, who actually loves another causing a chaotic love triangle. Within every romance a character is tragically hurt, turning the romance play into more of a tragedy. Throughout the play the characters throw around a rigid construction of the term “love,” that of a desire and not an actual feeling. Therefore, again turning the play away from a romance play, but now turning it towards a mocked romance play. The aspect that is manipulated causing all the misinterpretation is the representation of the term love, which is implicated by using multiple characters different scenarios of their love. The main characters reside in somewhat of a love triangle, Olivia, Viola, and Orsino. Love is often aligned with lust, stability, and class. None of which defines love as a sense of true selflessness. In the representation of love the reader interprets no selfless actions done to express their love to one another. Love is shown more as an obsession implied on the thought of love with respect to many alternative motives, which also show a lack of love being understood by the characters. In result, of the various representation of love

In one of AMND’s most enduring passages, Lysander states (Act one scene one, line 134) ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’ The conflict that is inevitably born out of love is a central theme at the heart of Midsummer’s Night’s Dream and Hamlet, but is extended by Shakespeare not only to romantic relationships, but to familial bonds as well. The conflict is ultimately resolved in diametrically opposing ways in each play, according to the conventions of their respective genres. Hamlet is a tragedy, and therefore can result only in death, but AMND, as a comedy, uses the traditional method of marriage to resolve its conflict.

Shakespearean plays are often known for their outstanding entertainment and classic comic conflict. In his masterwork, Hamlet, Shakespeare uses these aspects to serve his thematic purpose. He has used comedy throughout many of his historic plays, but in this play, comedy is the drawing point that makes it fun and entertaining, yet clear and intuitive. Generally, his tragedies are not seen as comical, but in reality, they are full of humor. However, these comic elements don’t simply serve to relieve tension; they have much significance to the play itself. The characters of Hamlet, Polonius, Osric, and the Gravediggers, prove to be very influential characters, and throughout the play, they are the individuals that

Love triangles.  They’re complicated and quite messy, as shown in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.  In Twelfth Night, twins Viola and Sebastian of Messaline are separated by a shipwreck, and both land in Illyria, but still separated, believing the other is dead.  Meanwhile, Duke Orsino is attempting to win over his crush, Lady Olivia, but she’ll have none of him since her brother died and she vows to mourn him for seven years, whilst avoiding everyone except her servants during such time.  Viola disguises herself as a man, under the pseudonym Cesario, and joins Duke Orsino’s court.  Orsino sends Cesario to woo Olivia for him, but upon meeting each other, Olivia falls in love with Cesario, not realizing Cesario is actually a woman.  Whilst