Viola Essay

Twelfth Knight is one of the most popular plays of Shakespeare. Twelfth Night 1996 by Trevor Nunn is a good imitation of Shakespeare’s play. The movie follows the same structure and pattern of the play. Twelfth Night movie (1996) follows Shakespeare’s rules for the structure. It starts with a real problem that may leads to death which is the shipwreck and the dividing of twins. Each one of the twins believe that the other one is dead. The use of sounds and imageries in the movie portrays the scene

in "Twelfth Night" fell in love with a disguise; I will detail the confusing relationships and disguises used in the play to show the blindness of love. Olivia is easily the largest victim to love and disguise. Olivia quickly falls in love with Viola, who is disguised as "Cesario". Olivia realizes how far

From Orsino’s superficial, transient love or infatuation for Olivia, to Olivia’s fleeting and overwhelming love at first sight for Cesario (Viola), to Viola’s true, sincere and sacrificial love for Orsino, we can surely see the importance of love in the play. Through these three types of romantic love, Shakespeare creates a love triangle involving the three, and creates a plot

night, Orsino says “For women are as roses, whose fair flow’r, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.” (page 41) With this quote, it was saying that women were just seen for their beauty at a young age, but once aging, they would lose it all. Viola states “Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, for such as we are made of, such we be.” (page 30) Which was explaining how the women are emotionally and

and adapted into a number of modern films. The main plot of the play follows Viola, a girl who is rescued from a shipwreck and enters into the service of the Duke Orsino disguised as a man. Rising quickly in his estimation, Viola begins delivering messages of love on his behalf to Olivia, a noble woman who has no interest in Orsino’s advances. Over the course of the play Olivia falls in love with the disguised Viola, Viola falls in love with Orsino, and Viola’s twin brother Sebastian, who supposedly

In 1941, Bernstein started to work on his Sonata for Clarinet and Piano at the Institute of Modern Art in Boston. It was dedicated to Bernstein’s friend and clarinetist David Oppenheim, even though clarinetist David Glazer premiered the work it 1943 with Bernstein at the piano. The composition was initially met with mixed reviews but eventually became a standard work in the clarinet repertoire. The Bernstein Clarinet Sonata claims many influences, including that of Bernstein’s colleagues and mentors:

through a repositioning of traditional Elizabethan gender roles. The familiar comic formula of identical twins creating confusion is employed with an added twist so that identical twins of opposite gender provide the foundation for the comic confusion. Viola, the protagonist, is stranded on the shores of a foreign land by a shipwreck. She adopts the identity of her brother, Sebastian, so that she can live in safety without a male protector. Shakespeare uses the comedy behind Viola's gender transformation

without any guidance after he lost his partner Victoria. After Jack’s loss he had to keep on going with Julia but in the end he gained more from his losses, just like Todd in The Knife Of Never Letting Go he lost Ben and Cillian and he had to go on with Viola but he ended up with a better understanding of what it really meant to be a man and why the men of Prentisstown were after him. Everybody has struggles of their own and everyone will eventually overcome them with determination. Jack and Todd both

the dual they had a few minutes ago. Sir Andrew then attacks him. But Sebastian, unlike Viola is a strong and brave fighter and while he is fighting he states, “Why, there’s for thee, and there,/ and there. Are all the people mad” (IV, i, 23-24)? A similar scene occurs when Sir Andrew and Sir Toby meets Sebastian after his marriage with Olivia and attempts to fight him again. While Olivia and Orsino confront Viola that she has betrayed them both, Sir Andrew and Sir Toby come rushing in with blood rushing

with his whining and pining towards this love for Olivia, with much exaggeration, due to the excessive use of imagery, and gives us one of the central theme of the play – transient and complex love. Act 1, scene 2 displays Viola and the Captain, and how Viola appears naïve, but is actually a strategist, and plans to disguise herself to get protection and also get closer to Orsino – causing a confusion