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    Olivia's words around to make it seem like she likes his yellow cross-gartered tights when in reality she dislikes them. Sir Toby just considers himself and no one else, not even his companions. He ignores Maria's notification about drinking into the night, and he continues to push Sir Andrew and Olivia to court. Even though he believes that Sir Andrew doesn't have a chance. Olivia considers the all-inclusive community around her, yet she furthermore assumes that no man is meriting her brilliance. She

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    Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night, the play consisted of many love triangles and complex characters that are tangled up in the idea of love. In every work written by Shakespeare, an important concept is conveyed, but never truly resolved for the audience. Instead, he leaves the questions unanswered by surrounding the play with humor, chaos, and a happy ending. In “The Different Types of Love Presented in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night” and “William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night”, both essays express

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    Due to this patriarchal society prevalent in Elizabethan literature, women were often seen as dangerous. While the Twelfth Night is more obvious, “Sonnet 130” is more subtle about the dangerous woman. By describing his mistress as defying all of society’s beauty standards, the speaker’s mistress is leading to the downfall of male control. Historically, women have gone to great lengths to meet a beauty standard which men helped create and enforce since they have to meet male standards in order to

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    Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare should be considered a comedy because it fulfills all the elements of comedy, specifically puns and mistaken identity. Twelfth Night is a play about twins who are shipwrecked and separated. One of the twins, Viola, disguises herself as a man so she can work in Duke Orsino’s court. She quickly befriends him and is sent to woo Countess Olivia, the object of Orsino’s affection. Much to her dismay, Viola falls in love with the Duke and Olivia falls in love with her

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    Twelfth Night Foils

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    dull sides just like people in the comedic play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and in "Missing Fathers: Twelfth Night, The Reformation Of Mourning." by Suzanne Penuel and "Melville's The Lightning-Rod Man As Foil" by Linda Pergolizzi Gallagher. This writing shows great information of foil characters especially in Twelfth Night where Viola and Olivia identify foil characters. One of them will materialize as the successful foil character. Twelfth Night describes about two royal sibling crashing in

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    The author of the book Half Brother is Kenneth Oppel. This book takes place in Victoria, Canada and it is modern day. Ben is the only child of his family and is 14 years old. His dad, Richard is a behavioral scientist and always wanted to try to see if a chimpanzee can develop American sign language. One day out of the blue a scientists chimp had babies and the scientist called Richard. They adopted an eight day old chimp, that they named Zan. Richard told Ben to treat him like a brother. Ben was

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    Twelfth Night Viola

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    they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception” (Degenerez). This quote applies in an interesting way for Viola, who the only way those in the play know her true self is when she speaks, since she wears a literal disguise. Throughout Twelfth Night, Viola is a character who part of play is centered and her progression of her place in the comedy. She goes from the confused, shipwrecked girl to the masked, controlled image of a man and then to a realization of everyone, including herself, of

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    In the play, The Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare, a wealthy nobleman named Orsino is the Duke of Illyria. Orsino falls madly in love with a countess but is devastated to know that her heart does not belong with him, but with a different “man.” He has many loves other than a countess in his kingdom. Through many love affairs, Orsino becomes fond of someone other than Olivia, a “male.” Because the Duke of Illyria is lovesick, passionate, and dynamic he affects the play mildly in the way

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    Gender Twelfth Night

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    Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s popular comedies, in which a female character, Viola, disguises herself as a man, creating a mess of same-sex sexual attraction along the rest of the play’s characters because of her breaking gender expectations. In the world in which the play takes place in, there are very sharp gender expectations, based on age, social level and appearance. In the play, surprisingly, Viola and her male character Cesario, are liked because as a girl she portrays characteristics

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    this passage threaten to turn the traditional patriarchal concept of courtship upside down, or as Olivia says turn "night to noon" (139). Every character in the play is involved in a situation where they think one person is someone else. These situations lead to turmoil and humor in the play. The many instances of mistaken identity and uncertainty of gender in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night contribute

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