The Celebration Of Carnival In Twelfth Night And Paradise Lost

In the novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, two boys named Jim Nightshade and Will Holloway discover a strange carnival. (Bradbury, 25) Not long after this discovery of the strange carnival, the two boys realize the dangers and mayhem this carnival holds. As they try to spill the faults of the carnival, they find themselves in danger. Mr. Dark, the one in charge of the carnival, tries to rid of the two boys so that they won’t bother his carnival any more. In place of Jim and Will being scavenged by Mr. Dark and his carnival freaks, Wills dad steps in to aid the boys until the storm that will temporarily end the carnival comes. After hiding and running away from Mr. Dark, the boys get caught and become captives of the carnival. Soon Charles Hall

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.” -Aristotle. Olivia’s clown, Feste has a very intriguing role in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Throughout the play, Feste is a bold and valiant character who continually makes daring comments towards everybody, including his mistress. The clown’s job is to be silly and crazy but in reality, Feste has the most wisdom and intelligence of all characters.

Andy Fickman updated Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to explore the key idea of hidden identity through his characterisation of Viola from She’s The Man. In She’s The Man, an example of hidden identity in relation to Viola is Viola purporting to be a guy (Sebastian) to play soccer. While Viola is playing soccer as Sebastian she got hit in the crotch and says,“Oh. Right. OWW! OH, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! IT BURNS!”. This quotes has used dramatic irony by letting the audience know that Viola is a female mimicking Sebastian’s appearance. Viola’s has no reaction to getting hit in the crotch but realises she is trying to portray Sebastian so she fakes that she feels the pain. This shows the use of hidden identity through Viola pretending to be Sebastian.

In William Shakespeare's comedic play, Twelfth Night, a recurring theme is deception. The characters in the play used deception for a variety of purposes. Viola's use of deception involves her disguising herself as a man in order to obtain a job with the Duke of Illyria, Orsino. On the other hand, Maria, Olivia's servant, writes a letter to Malvolio in Olivia's handwriting to make Malvolio act foolishly because of his love for Olivia. While some use deception as a means of survival, others use deception to trick others and make them act foolishly.

She’s the Man is a modern adaptation and interpretation of The Twelfth Night but the

In spite of the promise of three weddings to be celebrated, the play concludes on a sour note when Feste, the clown, depicts life as grim, "for the rain it raineth every day" (Act V Scene i). They play’s primary central theme is that of the comic relationships between men and women. Furthermore, it illustrates the traditional, societal notions of “interdependence, and the newly emerging attitudes towards individual choice and personal desire, or as the play puts it, ‘will’” (Malcolmson 163). Although Twelfth Night is a story of love and courtship, nevertheless, it is also a “comedy of gender,” because of its ability to override the traditional Elizabethan notions of the female role through the characters of Viola and Olivia.

A carnival is an event that entails some form of public celebration which includes a simplified version of a circus, costumes, masks and is aught time accompanied by some form of street or community party. With this in mind, Pulitzer Prize Winning novel, Dressing up for the Carnival stories, written by Carol Shields, enlists the reader for getting ready to go to the carnival. However, Shields is not getting us ready for an actual carnival, The stories that were analysed from the book are, “Dressing Up For The Carnival”, “A Scarf”, “Weather”, “Flatties” and “Keys”. Each story ultimately offered its own individual flare and highlighted how effective Shields was in captivating the interest of the reader through the entire collection of stories.

The World’s Columbian Exposition, more commonly known today as the Chicago World’s Fair, brought forth numerous innovations people use commonly today: Juicy Fruit chewing gum, Shredded Wheat, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ferris Wheel, books printed in Braille, automatic dishwashers, even Aunt Jemima pancake mix. In The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Erik Larson presents these brilliant inventions with a flourish that makes the reader feel as though he is there, experiencing the magic in person. However, despite the spellbinding descriptions and otherworldly air, the author explores a more macabre side to the story. The reader can never get too comfortable in the mystique of the Fair because lying at the end of each chapter about beauty, Larson reconstructs the White City in a different light. In the novel, Erik Larson uses diction and pathos to disquiet the reader while telling the chilling story of H.H. Holmes, what he did, and how he got away with it for so long.

The only reference to Twelfth Night during Shakespeare’s own lifetime is to a performance on February 2, 1602. A law student named John Manningham wrote in his diary about a feast he attended at the Middle Temple in London where he was a law student and where “we had a play called Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will." This was likely to have been an early performance since it is generally agreed that the play was probably written in 1601. In 1954 Sir Leslie Hotson’s book, The First Night of Twelfth Night, sought to identify the exact date of the first performance of Twelfth Night. He used the evidence of old records to suggest that Queen Elizabeth asked for a new play for the last night of the Christmas 1600-01 season, the Feast of the

Romantic desire is struggle ingrained within William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, strained by the nature of homosexual love. The depths of human sexuality are explored in Twelfth Night through the relationships between Duke Orsino and Viola as Cesario, Olivia and Viola, and Sebastian and Antonio. Twelfth Night represents homoerotic love in both radical and conservative ways, while furthermore questioning the boundaries of gender and disguise depicted by the relationships featured in the play. Shakespeare’s work is profound, since the play acknowledges homosexual love without punishment, and challenges if love is truly determined by gender, while also upholding

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

Cross-dressing in ‘Twelfth Night’ makes Viola 's gender identity ambiguous, Viola is both a man and a woman, possessing both masculinity and femininity, therefore cross-dressing helps to break down renaissance gender stereotypes and eventually, the patriarchy. The 'original practice ' of ‘Twelfth Night’ was reconstructed in a 2012 globe production which replicated the way in which the play would 've been enacted in the Elizabethan era, by having an all-male cast. This added to the madness of the

Our group proposed, presented, and directing the stage performance for the Twelfth Night. In the beginning of the semester I had no clue of what to expect from this course, and reading the syllabus made Shakespeare’s Plays seem complex. I am somewhat familiar with William Shakespeare’s plays stemming from a Shakespeare course that I had taken at Harold Washington (City College of Chicago). My professor (Hader) informed the class that if we were looking to go on to a four-year university as an English major that we will have to take another course, and it will be taught from a different perspective or angle—quite frightening. As a person who had not connected or have read anything that the playwright had ever written, I was afraid that I

The instances of mistaken identity are related to many disguises in the play. Viola, who puts on male attire, begins to have everyone believe that she is a man. By

Viola contributes a great deal to the theme of Disguise versus Identity in Twelfth Night. Viola must bundle up her personal emotions which she has for