Twelfth Night

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare contradicts vapid stereotypes about gender. Through Viola’s disguise as Cesario, he is able to prove that a woman is able to fulfill a man 's role in society. She is able to fool the other characters and is even able to woo another woman. This reinforces ideas about how invalid the rules and regulations society has made since Viola easily broke through them. Later on in the story, Sir Andrew challenges Viola to a duel. Viola expects Sir Andrew to be a great fighter, and he expects the same from her. This creates a comedic situation since they both are too afraid of each other to engage in the fight. (3.4, 223-298)

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

Yet the atmosphere of the play may render Malvolio’s aspirations less unreasonable than they initially seem. The feast of Twelfth Night, from which the play takes its name, was a time when social hierarchies were turned upside down. That same spirit is alive in Illyria: indeed, Malvolio’s antagonist, Maria, is able to increase her social standing by marrying Sir Toby. But it seems that Maria’s success may be due to her willingness to accept and promote the anarchy that Sir Toby and the others embrace. This Twelfth Night spirit, then, seems to pass by Malvolio, who doesn’t wholeheartedly embrace the upending of order and decorum but rather wants to blur class lines for himself alone.

Shakespeare, the favorite dramatist of all time fascinates himself with the usage of the language of Elizabethan poetic drama. His plays were lived to a full appreciation and pleasure. One of his most common plays full of comedies, twelfth night published in 1623, was written with a well hatched plot where the analysis on love is brought in both comic and tragic situation. The reader will note the three very different story lines within these paragraphs. The following prognostications will outline the final act.

He could be seen as a hidden fool as Feste is considered as the paid fool in the play. Malvolio is used for the other characters’ entertainment ,especially Sir Toby and Andrew Aguecheek, as he is so grave and is against anything frivolous and fun. The other characters like to poke fun at Malvolio and tease him, they like to see how he reacts to their foolish behaviour. I also think that Shakespeare uses Malvolio's being in the play to apply contrast against the other characters, especially Toby and Andrew who are always merry (although this may be because of their excessive drinking habits which cause the behaviour) but Malvolio in relation is much more reserved and solemn in parts of the play. Malvolio does or can come across as a bit foolish in some parts of the play for example when Maria and Toby trick him with the fake love letter and trick him into wearing yellow stockings etc.

"I swear, that Tobias is going to hear an ear full from me once I see him. I mean, how reckless can he be?" Noel fumed, pacing back and forth.

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.

In Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, there are quite a few characters that don't seem as important and generally irrelevant to the overall message of the story. Although it may seem that way while glancing at what the characters say and their frequency in the play, they are all deeply relevant. One in particular is the fool. The fool is one of the most impactful characters of them all by influencing other characters.

Malvolio is the head servant in the household of Lady Olivia and is very efficient but also self-righteous. Within the play ‘Twelfth Night’, Malvolio can be interpreted as a victim who the audiences sympathise with but can also be argued to be a legitimate comic target which the audience learn to dislike. He has a poor opinion of drinking, singing, and fun and emphasises the importance of dignity, decency and ‘good order’. Due to Malvolio’s priggishness and haughty attitude, it earns him the enmity of Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria. Malvolio, unlike Feste, is seen as natural fools who are considered simple, often lower-class characters who seemingly lacking common sense and intelligence.

Twelfth Night, a play constructed by William Shakespeare, revolves around a chaotic misconception of love. Well known for the way he presents love stories, among other skillful attributes, it is the use of dramatic irony within the play causes that confusion amongst the characters as to who they should love. To truly understand the play, there must be an understanding of dramatic irony. This type of irony consists of knowledge that is prevalent amongst the audience and possibly a character within the play, meanwhile the rest of the characters are left clueless to vital information. In this play, the one character who holds the most knowledge is Viola, who is known as Cesario while secretly dressed as a man.

Shakespeare often writes his plays to be found comedic by using similar key elements. In the comedy the Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses the elements of love triangles, role reversal, and rule breaking to create humor. Shakespeare often uses love triangles to create unusual situations of love’s absurdity. To create this, in The Twelfth Night, Shakespeare creates a woman, Viola, who dresses as a man in order to gain entrance into the noble world. Duke Orsino is madly in love with Olivia who falls in love with Cesario, who is really Viola.

Because of his rude and bossy actions Maria, Toby, Feste, Andrew, and Fabian made an evil plan. They planned to trick him and make a fool out of the steward. By making him think Olivia loves him and that he is a madman, they would sure get their revenge. Maria first wrote a letter to Malvolio playing as Olivia. The letter is a love poem to Malvolio, claiming she loves him but wishes to keep it a secret.

The women in Shakespear's play: Twelfth Night, are all depicted as having power, comedic and being very emotional.

William Shakespeare, in his well-known comedy Twelfth Night, creates a plot that revolves around mistaken identity and deception. Mistaken identity, along with disguises, rules the play and affects the lives of several of the characters. Shakespeare's techniques involve mistaken identity to bring humor, mystery, and complication to the play. Many characters in Twelfth Night assume disguises, beginning with Viola who is disguised as a eunuch, Maria who writes a letter to Malvolio as Olivia, and then the mix-up between Sebastian and Viola are revealed.

Maria is one of Twelfth Night’s characters whose superior intellect seemingly clashes with her social standing