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This review analyzes the different types of love that the characters of "Twelfth Night" undergo in their attempt to find love. The paper relates that the various characters in the story experience or show fabrications of love, lustful infatuations, and true conventional love.

From the Paper
"There are various types of love experienced by the characters in Twelfth Night, along with the consequences that are created. The various individuals show fabrications of love, infatuation, as well as conventional love. At the end of the last act, Sebastian and Viola are reunited and their personalities in this scene allow all the puzzle pieces (i.e. mistaken identities) to fit together. The masks and disguises are ultimately removed and the characters can now follow their own identity, gender, and love interests."

Tags:twelfth, night, william, shakespeare, love, olivia, sebastian, malvolio, masks, disguises

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In this article, the writer maintains that in "Twelfth Night", William Shakespeare was clearly concerned to teach several lessons about the nature of love and of human relationships. In this essay, the writer discusses that Shakespeare uses the element of comedy to portray these lessons through different characters and that this was more effective than if the information had just been put across in an instructional manner.

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"In this essay it will be argued that the lessons are made more accessible due to being conveyed by characters and actions in a romantic comedy, frequently in a comic way, than they would have been if the lessons were simply stated in a didactic way. In Shakespeare's time, his plays provided entertainment and often comedy to people who had far less access to entertainment than we do in our time, with our highly commercialized and ubiquitous entertainment industry."

Tags:twelfth, night, Shakespeare

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This paper examines love as a primary theme in literature, and Shakespeare gave particular attention to love and its various aspects in his comedies. "Twelfth Night" is such a comedy and explores the idea of true love and its possibility as well as suggesting how much of love is an illusion. The characters play these ideas out in a setting where women often pretend to be men and so complicate matters even more.

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"Love is a primary theme in literature, and Shakespeare gave particular attention to love and its various aspects in his comedies. Twelfth Night is such a comedy and explores the idea of true love and its possibility as well as suggesting how much of love is an illusion. Twelfth Night is a play based on mistaken identities and grand passions. True love in this play becomes enmeshed in a series of errors, mistaken identities, misplaced affections, and a general social confusion that actually begins when Sebastian and Viola are separated in a shipwreck. The confusions are compounded by having Viola dress as a boy, a device often used by Shakespeare and one that creates a particularly rocky road for..."

Tags:love, shakespeare, play

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In this paper, the use of disguise in Twelfth Night and King Lear are similar in their usage of various behaviors, costumes, and gender roles that are exchanged to discover the real truth through hidden identity. The paper discusses The Earl of Kent's use of disguise of Caius; contrasting with elements of disguise in Twelfth Night that offer a comedic gender role reversal for the men and women involved in love intrigue.

From the Paper
"In this drama study one can compare and contrast the various uses of disguise that arise within Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and King Lear. By realizing the depth and scope of romantic love within the comedic Twelfth Night, Shakespeare intertwines various aspects of relationships that are disguised through gender roles. In contrast to Shakespeare's comedies, King Lear offers a tragic point of view through disguise, which involves the role of power and leadership, which drives King Lear to madness. In essence, by comparing and contrasting the theme of disguise in both tragedy and comedy, one can evaluate how Shakespeare enacts these crucial factors within a textual analysis."

Tags:lear, night, comedy

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The paper notes that the 2006 film "She's the Man" clearly pays homage to Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night" in the names of its main characters and the bare-bones outline of its cross-dressing plot, however, the paper points out many differences. The paper discusses how in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", his Viola disguises herself as a boy because of grief, not out of a love of sports, and, Shakespeare's comedy is more fundamentally based upon emotion, character, and even social class than physical difference. The paper continues by noting that Shakespeare's Viola is both a sadder and more vulnerable character throughout "Twelfth Night", in contrast to the more tomboyish Viola in the modern film who can fend for herself. Finally, the paper relates that the very sinister 'madness plot' and the characters of Toby and Andrew in "Twelfth Night" are toned down in "She's the Man".

From the Paper
"The main character, Viola Hastings, is abandoned by her brother Sebastian when the young man leaves for a music career in London, dropping out of the second prep school he has been forced to attend by their parents. Viola leaves Cornwall Prep and pretends to be a boy so she can play soccer disguised as Sebastian at Illyria Prep. However, in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, his Viola disguises herself as a boy because of grief, not out of a love of sports. Viola finds herself unwillingly rather than willingly in the land of Illyria after a shipwreck. She mistakenly fears that her brother Sebastian has died."

Tags:Viola, Sebastian, Cornwall, Prep, gender, identity

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This paper discusses the theme of true love, as it is depicted in William Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night." It explores the idea of true love and its possibilities and then looks at how much of love is, in fact, an illusion. The paper discusses the plot of the play and the various relationships that exist and also briefly looks at the implications of that love.

From the Paper
"One of the ways this theme is often depicted is in terms of lovers who seem mismatched so that their faithlessness is almost expected. Duke Orsino in this play is a man who has a wandering eye when it comes to women, so it would seem that he is not likely to remain faithful, though he would become apoplectic if his wife were to stray as he does. He proposes to Viola in a less than convincing manner and claims that all women are unfaithful. At this stage, Orsino is doing no more than projecting his own character onto the women he meets, and he does learn a lesson in the course of the play."

Tags:faithlessness, Orsino, Viola, match, Elizabethan

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This review looks at several passages from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" to critique Shakespeare's topsy-turvy presentation of the battle between the sexes. The writer of the paper argues tha,t at face value, it may seem like a play that is not meant to be taken seriously, but in actuality, it has a very serious underlying message. The writer explores love, passion and similar subjects in this humorous play, and asks the readers to look deeper at the nature of love.

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"Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy that on the surface looks like it's not meant to be taken terribly seriously. After all it takes place in a country called Illyria which is pretty close to Deliria. A strange madness reigns, especially concerning the subjects of love and gender. The things that happen in this play are so farfetched that it doesn't seem we are meant to believe them at all. The title itself suggests a celebration of merry misrule which is apparently what the Elizabethan celebration of Twelfth Night was like. The What you Will part of the title is like saying, "whatever," or "anything goes." Everything is crazy and unbelievable--the business of the twins, a woman masquerading as a man, and the craziness of ending with Sebastian marrying Olivia, a woman he doesn't even know and of Olivia, instantly loving the brother of the woman disguised as a man who she thought she was in love with just a few minutes ago. It's a world turned upside down, especially where romance is concerned."

Tags:What you will, Malvolio, Olivia, Sebastian, Orsino, twins, sexual identity

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This paper explains that William Shakespeare illustrates in "Twelfth Night" that love is not always joyful but also can cause pain, turmoil and frustration. Orsino, Viola, Malvolio, and Olivia, the author points out, are characters that demonstrate the power and lack of power over love. The paper presents examples from this comedy by which Shakespeare demonstrates the ways that love is complicated and beautiful at the same time.

From the Paper
"From this opening scene, we become aware of the tone of the play as well as see what the power of love can do. For instance, Orsino loves love. In fact, he may love the idea of love too much. His feelings for Olivia are over the top - so much so that he seems like a raving lunatic. If he were living today, he might stalk her. His intensity, however, is critical because it allows us to see the influence that love, or what we think to be love, can have over us."

Tags:characters, emotion, secret, lessons, plague

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In this article, the writer points out that many scholarly articles and studies of 'Twelfth Night' tend to downplay the literary importance of the play by categorizing it as a genial and charming play. The writer maintains that there is not anything inherently abominable about being either genial or charming, but these two words do not do justice to Shakespeare's deceptively "light" play. 'Twelfth Night' is not a tragedy, but this does not prevent Shakespeare from exploring, through comedy, several fundamental themes of human existence: love, grief, and desire. This paper analyzes Shakespeare's exploration of these existential themes as they appear in 'Twelfth Night' and argues that the playwright, through comedy, unveils the ludicrousness and inappropriateness of extravagant and sentimental emotion.

From the Paper
"The question and the man who asks it barely register in Orsino's mind, but he is quick to pull out his readily available stock of conventional wisdom as soon as he breaks his reverie, and responds to Curio's question with a trite metaphor on love and hunting. No wonder, then, that the servants show signs of impatience and restlessness: their master is luxuriating in a state of complete self-absorption, and the outside world (or the beings that inhabit it) have ceased to exist. Of course, this matters not at all to the extravagant Orsino, as he is completely clueless as to what transpires around him and simply lacks the energy (in the manner of all love-sick gentleman) to engage in hunting or other depleting physical activities.
"Olivia, too, embodies these same characteristics, and it is perhaps unfortunate that the two do not make their own happy ending. Similarly to her determined pursuer, Olivia's emotional "disorder" reveals itself through her conversations with Cesario. The reader knows, before even encountering Olivia, that she is in mourning for a beloved brother. "

Tags:character, play, comedy, behavior

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"The Twelfth Night" is an example of how a play can function both as theatrical performance, and as literature. The Twelfth Night is a play based on gender impersonation and openly mocks the assumptions about feminine and masculine behavior or expectation. This paper focuses on Viola, and Olivia, as they are so clearly designed to complement and contradict (even through the names, which are different arrangements of the same letters.) As Viola impersonates the young man with whom Olivia has fallen in love, the differences in how Viola manages to speak as a man are as varied as Olivia's relations for speaking as a woman in relation to men.