Miscommunication Twelfth Night

Another example of deception is when Maria, Olivia's servant writes a letter to Malvolio, Olivia's head servant and Maria's coworker. Maria deceives Malvolio by writing in Olivia's handwriting. In the letter she says that Olivia loves men in yellow stockings. "Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered" (2.5. 143-145). Maria knows that Malvolio will follow this ridiculous deed because of this love for his lady Olivia. Sir Toby Belch says, "He shall think by the letters that thou wilt drop that they come from my niece, and that she's in love with him" (2.3. 154-156). Maria places the letter in her garden where Malvolio will definitely find it. Thinking Olivia will fall in love with him because of his clothing, Malvolio dress up in yellow stockings and goes to see Olivia. When Olivia sees Malvolio and the way he is acting, she isolates him for fear that he is insane.

In William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, love as the cause of suffering is one of the most prominent theme of the story. Even though this play ends in love and wedded bliss, Shakespeare also shows us that love can also cause pain. The characters often view love as a curse, something that is thrust upon you and you cannot easily or willing escape. Examples include Malvolio’s love for Olivia, the love triangle between Olivia, Duke Orsino, and Viola as Cesario, and Antonio’s crush on Sebastian. There are countless occasions where unrequited love for another results in heartbreak and sorrow.

Another aspect of the play that can easily relate to modern audiences is, William Shakespeare’s use of mistaken identities and true-life experiences especially mourning for the loss of family and love obsessions, are among the main focuses of the play. Many people in the audience of today would most likely be able to relate to Olivia’s intense mourning of her brother, since people’s feelings and actions at the time of loss don’t change just the periods of times that they occur do. Love is commonly used in many forms of works of entertainment because it is an unsolved mystery that everyone usual enjoys watching or reading. The infatuation that the Duke has for Olivia is comical throughout the play and forces the Duke to say

Another story where love is fickle is in Twelfth Night. Orsino loves Olivia and tries to woo her, but Olivia rejects his love. However, when Orsino sends his manservant Cesario to declare Orsino’s love for Olivia, Olivia begins to fall in love with Cesario. Throughout the story, Orsino begins to take interest in his manservant and Olivia falls deeper in love with Cesario. Orsino’s love for Olivia is love at first sight, which does not last very long when he begins to love Cesario. At the end of the play, Olivia mistakes Sebastian for Cesario and marries Sebastian. In this play, Shakespeare shows that love is fickle and characters marry before they truly know if they really love each other. Olivia’s marriage to Sebastian does not display any

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.

There is a certain degree of expectation with the genre of comedy that despite whatever difficulties appear within the play, by the end these will be resolved and the play will have a traditional happy-ending with a marriage or a celebration in the final scene. The “Twelfth Night” is no exception to this rule. Despite problems of confused identities and sexualities, the play ends with marriage for the major characters because they “have learned enough about their own foolishness to accept it wisely, and their reward, as it should be, is marriage.”(Schwartz 5140). There is a resolution of harmony to a certain extent and an endorsement of romantic love yet despite the happiness evident in the last scene, there are many elements in the play

Love is a passion that everyone wishes to live. It’s known as the art of living. Love is represented in many different forms. Similarly the lack of love is the reason for unhappiness and misery. The situation changes to such that at times this desire to be with our loved ones is left incomplete with thousands of obstacles in front of us. In twelfth night, Shakespeare focuses on romantic love. His way of playing around with his word makes the reader wonder on the true lovers who will remain victorious at the end of the play. In the setup, we are brought to two characters identically the same, Viola and her twin brother Sebastian. The reader is under the impression that the resemblance between Viola and Sebastian is not just a coincidence, but it has an important part to be act in the play. Lost by her past, the young women Viola decides to overcome her grief by making her own way in the world. She enters the Duke of Illyria’s palace, Orsino. Her entrance to the

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare is skeptical of love which is evident when you analyze the characters of Orsino and Malvolio. Orsino experiences the constant rejection of Olivia’s love while Malvolio on the other hand is blind to the fact that he is narcissistic. Viola’s character has the most genuine love within the cast of Twelfth Night since she is willing to put her own love for Orsino aside to try and woo Olivia into loving Orsino. Shakespeare uses numerous kinds of love throughout the play which include self-love, false love, and unrequited love which helps us differentiate between what both men and woman desire from love.

The play Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, explores and makes fun of love. In the beginning of Twelfth Night, a young girl, Viola, is shipwrecked, saved, and brought to an unfamiliar land. She then decides to cross-dress as a boy in order to get a job in Duke Orsino’s court. She soon falls in love with Duke Orsino, who loves the Countess Olivia, yet she finds herself in the middle of a love triangle as Orsino sends her to woo Olivia. She is put in a pickle as she does not want to disappoint the Duke but neither does she want her efforts to succeed.

Romance has been a theme in literature for years and years. It has recognized many hardships, it has recognized many happily-ever-afters as well. In Shakespeare 's play, Twelfth Night, there are many profound and overpowering themes of love that float around throughout a majority of the play. Most of the main characters find love near the end of the play; however, a few are not so lucky. Although this is a comedy, Shakespeare utilized comedic plans and tricks to make characters fall in love; however, some get left to feel the burden of deteriorated love.

There are multiple types of love in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, but which really express true love? True love is requited sentiment and affection despite circumstance. This essay will discuss three types of love expressed in the play: recompense, unrequited, and family. The only one of these that also expresses true love is familial love.

After attending Texas Theatre and Dance’s full play production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, I am decently surprised to realize that the ‘Romantic Comedy’ genre can be timeless when done properly. This play, written in year 1601, still manages to translate the hardships of infatuation, loss, and gender identity surprisingly well to a modern audience. In this production, the tragedies of the main characters turn into an awkward love triangle in which no one is who they seem. Although the play Twelfth Night appears to be all about love and the characters endeavors to gain each other’s affection, it is clear that none of the characters are truly in love.

"Twelfth Night" was one of his best plays that he has composed. The play presents different topics, for example, affection, sexual orientation, and insanity. Each of these topics all related back how love is an effective compel that causes individuals to do certain activities or think a specific way. Cherish causes a man to follow up on their longings. This can bring about torment or as it were, love causes torment. Being in confusion of sexual orientation, for example, Viola, can misdirect each other which prompt the homoerotic thoughts. At the point when Shakespeare composed the play he planned to be seen as a satire, however there is additionally more to it. He passed on his own musings about adoration through the subjects of the story. By investigating the subjects it indicates what Shakespeare may have

The socially unacceptable tendencies of human nature are taboo subjects among the public life. The veil on these attributes are snatched in Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night. This play is representation of human nature and its response to love and hatred, most notably between the characters of Olivia and Viola, and Maria and Malvolio. The circumstances between each pair includes falling in love with the same gender due to disguise; and hatred between an assertive personality and a witty one. These emotions of anger, humor, and love contribute to acknowledging the vulnerability of mankind and its flaws.

The play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare shows us how mistaken identity can affect people in many ways. Two main characters, Olivia and Viola, disguised as Cesario, caused this confusion. Viola and her brother Sebastian were on a boat that crashed. Viola washed upon the shore of Illyria and thought her brother dead, but Sebastian wasn’t really dead, he had just washed up on a different nearby island. Wanting a job, Viola disguised herself as a man named Cesario, and Olivia fell in love with “him”. Eventually Viola’s brother came to Illyria, which caused confusion to everyone because Sebastian looked just like Cesario. Mistaken identity in Twelfth Night caused characters confusion and, in some cases, pain.