Love In Orsino

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.

The play opens with Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, expressing his deep love for the Countess Olivia. Meanwhile, the shipwrecked Viola disguises herself as a man and endeavors to enter the Duke’s service. Although she has rejected his suit, the Duke then employs Viola, who takes the name of Cesario, to woo Olivia for him. As the

One can observe Orsino's love for Olivia as obsessive. Orsino’s first words “If music be the food of love, play on,” introduce him as a love-sick character whose mind revolves around a woman who does not return his feelings (I.i.1). Olivia constantly populates his mind and he does not cease his pursuit for her love, even after she expresses distaste towards him. Shakespeare mocks love-sick individuals for acting like fools and putting themselves through misery. After learning of Olivia’s marriage, Orsino realizes he has lost her and lashes out at Cesario. He threatens him by stating “I’ll sacrifice the lamb I do love to spite a raven’s heart within a dove”(V.i.33-34). Shakespeare uses Orsino’s love for Olivia to differentiate between good and bad love. Unrequited love can cause an individual to pursue violent actions in blind rage. Orsino shows how love is consuming, crippling, and hinders the ability to live out life.Orsino believes his love for Olivia is true, but he is actually in love with the idea of love, and believes he can only obtain it from Olivia. Shakespeare tries to inform the audiences that they could mistakenly believe they are in

In Twelfth Night, Feste asks the “most simple and at the same time most complex of questions,” “What is Love?” (The English Review). Some people believe that love is easy, effortless, and leads to fairytale endings. However, in Twelfth Night, Shakespeare shows the other side of love. Love is not a simple feeling, and it is a confusing emotion which leads to heartbreak, or pure happiness. These two polar opposites are derived from either true or false love. Shakespeare portrays the idea that love is not always easy, and differentiates between false and true love in Twelfth Night.

Sara Bell Professor Endicott Literature 181 11/22/15 What is Love? The idea of true love is a popular theme in Shakespeare's writings. In his play, Twelfth Night, Viola, Olivia, and Orsino are all involved in a love triangle, but their love is not based on reality.

Within Shakespearean comedies, love remains a relentless theme. In some cases, such as Much Ado About Nothing, the characters’ fight against their feelings to provide the audience with laughter at the lover’s stubborn. Often, Shakespeare also has a character fall in love with the wrong person first, before magically rendering a character for them to fall in love with. For example, in As You Like it, Phoebe proclaims she madly loves Ganymede, but by the play’s end marries Silvius. Duke Orsino from The Twelfth Night also portrays this Shakespearean trope. At the beginning of the comedy, Orsino depicts his love for Olivia time and time again. He sings her messages of affections, sends others to sing his love when he cannot, and offers her many gifts. However, Olivia constant rejects Orsino, stating lack of interest for her behavior. Easily, one could interpret Orsino’s proclamations as a desire to be loved himself, however, it is equally as suggestable that Orsino and Olivia were simple mismatch like many other Shakespearean characters. While many critics would interpret Orsino as a self-loving bastard who simply uses Olivia for his hero worship of himself, Orsino actually represents a man in love with the wrong person, who suffers constant rejection and eventually moves on.

In the play, Orsino devoted almost all of his waking thoughts to Olivia and his unrequited love for her. But in the film version, he often changes his romantic interests between Olivia and Viola, or other girls in the school. “I'm goin' out with Olivia”, he says casually. However, Viola is shocked and hurt at this quick change of heart and exclaims: “What the hell?! I thought you liked Viola now”. Orsino, confused that a fellow ‘man’ is appalled by his decision, says: “Dude, come on. You're a guy. What would you do if the hottest girl in the school came up to you and asked you on a date”? Here in the film Orsino was previously going to go on a date with Viola, but when Olivia, his original crush, saunters over to make Viola as Sebastian jealous, he ditches Viola to focus his attraction towards Olivia again. As stated, the play version of Orsino never doubted his proclaimed adoration for Olivia as seen here: “Why, so I do, the noblest that I have: /O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, /Methought she purged the air of pestilence! /That instant was I turn'd into a hart; /And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, /E'er since pursue me” (1.1.37). His everlasting love for Olivia is as obvious as it is potent as her distaste for

Yet he still continues to get a “yes” from Olivia. He grows rambunctious and upset when he says.” O’ she hath the heart of a fine frame, to pay the debt of love but to a dead brother” ( Shakespeare page 11 33-34) He lacks sympathy towards Olivia for her problems, but he has time to listen to his own desires. Nonetheless rather grieving with her, he goes and gives her his words of love. Duke Orsino knows that Olivia is unsure and this is an act of selfishness. Furthermore, he craves something he can’t have, Olivia’s love. Love is to crave to the extreme, it’s hunger that lovers hope they can never fully

From what seemed to be a harmless plan of becoming her brother has now turned into a disaster waiting to strike. Things seem to become very tense and rough between Sebastian (Viola) and room mate Duke Orsino, as Duke believes that Sebastian is trying to do everything he can to keep Olivia away from him. Duke is in some ways right with what he is saying as Sebastian (Viola) is attempting to get Duke away from Olivia, because deep down, Viola actually loves Duke, but she knows it won’t be that easy to explain to him that he has been living with a girl this whole time. This fits perfectly with Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, as in the storyline, Duke Orsino sends his servant Cesario (Viola) to woo Olivia and proclaim Duke’s Love for her. A quote from the book is when we read Viola’s emotions in first person.

The duke's love for Olivia is reciprocated by Olivia toward Cesario. Another problem that arises is that Viola falls in love with Orsino while working with him for a few days. She can not do anything about it because Orsino thinks she is a male. This gender uncertainty allowed Viola to get a job within the walls of the house but does not allow her to follow her heart or her feelings for Orsino.

He is passionate in many ways in the play, like, his fond over music and his fascination of love itself. On the other hand, the film switches his love of music to love of soccer. His obsession over Olivia is widely expressed in both the play and the film adaptation. For example, when Orsino is head over heels in love with Olivia, she does not want to marry him, but he still loves the idea of loving her in every way possible. His passion for soccer in the movie comes into play when he finally finds out that Sebastian is Viola, he says they should not “be afraid of greatness.

However, instead of respecting her time of mourning and caring about her pain, Orsino twists this tragedy into something that might benefit his courtship: “O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame / To pay this debt of love but to a brother, / How will she love, when the rich golden shaft / Hath killed the flock of all affections else” (1.1.32-35). Orsino’s feelings for Olivia beg the question of whether or not love has to do with the person who is loved or the lover’s imagination: “So full of shapes is fancy / That it alone is high fantastical” (1.1.14–15). Orsino often describes Olivia’s beauty and the effect it has on him, but he never provides persuasive reasons for why he loves her. He declares that he suffers inescapable pain, yet he gives the impression that he enjoys it to an extent, that he cannot, doesn’t know how to be, without it. The authenticity of his love is even further invalidated at the end of the play when he quickly shifts affections from Olivia to Viola.

Shakespeare presents Orsino as furious and irritated at Olivia’s constant refusal of his love and starts noticing how Olivia is not the perfect woman he claims she is while discreetly implying a shift of his romantic feelings for someone else (Cesario/Viola).

Olivia fell immediately in love with Cesario after meeting him on behalf of Orsino. Because Cesario was actually Viola, she did not have the same feelings for Olivia. Cesario shared that he possessed feelings for another person. Cesario rejected Olivia’s profession of love a multitude of times, but Olivia did not accept it. Her self-absorption stopped her from realizing Cesario’s real emotions. Olivia possessed money, beauty, and high status that caused her to feel entitled. Therefore, she was unable to fathom why Cesario did not love her. She begged Cesario with, “Stay, I prithee, tell me what thou thinkest of me.” (Shakespeare 3.1, ll. 128). Olivia urged Cesario to stay with her. Olivia wished to know what Cesario thought of her. Olivia believed Cesario had to love her because of her beauty and status. She took everything Cesario said to her out of context. When Cesario said he pitied her, she believed it was a way of showing he loved her. She did not care about Cesario’s feelings. Olivia only worried about herself and what she

The play starts off by Duke Orsino saying how madly in love he is with Lady Olivia, but she won’t have anything to do with any suitors, due to mourning over her brother’s death. Viola is found from a shipwreck where she believes her brother drowned. Viola disguises herself as a man and seeks a job with the Duke. Within days, Cesario (Viola) has made it as one of the Duke’s favorites. Cesario created a friendship with the Duke. The male friendships in the Elizabethan Era was not your average male friendship that you would find today. They had a very close and intimate friendship. Males looked to other men for companions because men were looked upon as more superior and females were looked down upon (Stanley 120). Males would hug, walk arm in arm and they would even kiss in the public without people giving it a second thought about