Twelfth Night Ppe Quotes

In this play, Viola’s cross dressing experience is important to both the central complication and resolution to the plot. In Act 1, scene 5, Viola, who is

All throughout Illyria, there is romance, passion, royalty, and an immense amount of gender stereotypes. William Shakespeare imagines the kingdom of Illyria to have very traditional norms for both women and men in his play Twelfth Night. In Scene 2 of Act 1, Viola, recently rescued from a shipwreck, hears about a duke named Orsino and instantly comes up with a plan to get closer to him. Her plan is to disguise herself as a boy who she will name Cesario and become one of Orsino's’ attendants. Right off the bat, we begin to see gender stereotypes. Why must Viola become a man in order to work for the duke? Elizabethan society “molded women into the form of the dutiful wife and mother” (Elizabethan Women). Viola could not have served duke Orsino as a woman because as a woman she was expected to work at home and be either a “dutiful wife [or a] mother”. Scene two prepares the audience for the idea of gender throughout the rest of the play. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is very traditional play due to its ideas of gender stereotypes in Elizabethan society.

Viola’s power was demonstrated in (5.1, 62) when Viola uses her influence over Orsino to save Antonio’s life by saying “Antonio did me kindness, sir. Drew on my side…” Due to Viola’s statement towards Antonio, his life was spared. Showing Viola in control and commanding while giving reasons to spare Antonio’s life was used as a way to scorn at women whom were in control and took command of their life and household, making decisions. In the time of Renaissance which was Shakespeare’s time, many women such as Queens had power, but the majority did not as husbands and fathers were considered the head of the house leaving women with no control, having to bid to the male authority. For example, “Most women, even those in privileged circumstances, had little control over the direction their lives took. The women would be wed through arranged marriage and then the husbands would ‘own’ the women and everything she would come with.” (http://www.bl.uk/the-middle-ages/articles/women-in-medieval-society). This text shows how Shakespeare gave women such as Viola and Olivia to compare how women should act based on his time by how the two heroines acted in Twelfth

At the very beginning of the play, Viola asks the Captain of a ship to help her disguise herself, and keep her secret. He agrees, and gets her a position with the local Duke, as one of his servants. Now dressed as a man, Viola has a heavy weight on her shoulders that she must keep. Being a servant for Duke Orsino is

In She’s the Man Viola decides she wants to disguise as her brother and

In Act 1, Scene 2 of Twelfth Night, as Viola lays down her plans before the captain, she speaks about a major theme of the play: the way a person seems outwardly versus their true self. Viola says she is aware people cannot be trusted based on their looks, but trusts the captain. She then requests his help so she can be dressed as a boy for the remainder of the play. The way she behaves also hits on another theme, the contrast between people that can act as a balance. Through comparison, she can be seen as a counterbalance to Sebastian in the way they both conduct themselves.

Many claim that Viola, or Cesario in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a character who goes through struggle after struggle in order to prove a point, however, it is clear that she is simply a character who dresses as her twin brother,

Viola, alone in a strange land, disguises herself as a man in order to gain access to Duke Orsino's palace. She plays the role of Orsino's servant, Cesario, to be near him for she knows that he is the man who can help her in Illyria. On first hearing Orsino's name, Viola says: "Orsino! I have heard my father name him: He was a bachelor

Sir Andrew is one of these men; he is egocentric man who believes himself to be like a god, when in reality he is nothing a cowardly man, who cannot stand his ground in a fight. He had challenged Cesario to a fight, but when someone else warned him that Cesario was a talented, deadly swordsman (which was indeed a lie) he immediately responded with: “Plague on ’t, an I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I’d have seen him dammed ere I’d have challenged him. Let him let the matter slip, and I’ll give him my horse, gray Capilet.” (Shakespeare 172). Sir Andrew’s cowardly nature completely defies the stereotypical man of the 1500’s. Men were perceived as always being superior to woman yet here; Sir Andrew is intimidated by false information about Cesario, who in reality is a woman. Without knowing it Sir Andrew had basically surrendered himself at the feet of a woman, ironically so, because he believed that as a man it was his responsibility, his duty, to “protect” women. On the other hand Duke Orsino is truly the typical egoistical man from the 1500’s he considers himself to be superior to women in every aspect. As seen in Act 2 Scene 4, where Viola was defending women, Viola was defending women and there emotions from Duke Orsino, he had the belief that women could not have feelings as strong as those a man could have. He believed that men were the only ones

Sir Toby finally has to point out that "‘accost' is front her, board her, woo her, assail her" all in all this makes a very confusing scene. The other two women (Viola and Olivia) are used to add comedy through mistaken identities, since Olivia believes Viola to be a man and falls in love with her. In (2.2.20-21) Viola discovers that Olivia is in love with her and exclaims: "For she did speak in starts distractedly. She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion". While there are a great deal of comedic scenes there are also those with great sentiment in them.

Unlike the other characters in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Viola's sense of love is genuine. She

The unhappiness of Olivia's impossible situation could be seen as a lesson for taking on the wrong role. By leaving her place as object and becoming the actor Olivia is unknowingly chasing after someone she can never have. When Sebastian appears, a male replication of Viola, then all the problems seem to evaporate because the proper gender roles have been restored. Yet without Sebastian, without the true male, chaos reigns and reason breaks

This letter is written to discuss the popular upcoming rendition of Twelfth Night. All of the casting is done except for the role of Viola. Thus, it is an honour to recommend Gillian Watson for this part. It would be greatly appreciated, if she could audition for the part of Viola in order to demonstrate her abilities. She is an exceptionally talented and powerful actor and furthermore, is conscientious. She has greatly studied the play and knows it like the back of her hand, especially Viola’s part. Therefore, Gillian would be an ideal choice to play Viola because she easily recognizes Viola’s subtle temperament that other actors do not, such as her selflessness, cleverness, and resourcefulness.

She feels pity for Olivia and herself with the statement "Poor lady, she were better love a dream" (2.2. 25)! Viola's use of deception causes a cross gender love triangle with which she can not deal.

Viola is not the only one affected by her plan; Olivia falls in love with Viola,