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Comparing Sebastian In Twelfth Night And She's The Man
Viola and her twin Cesario/Sebastian are both used for identity change. Although the facts or conditions (that surround someone), reasons, and means used are differences in the two, the general idea is the same. The results are also the same. In both Viola depicted a man successfully changing her appearances to look like men so as to trick different characters. A winding of complexity circles around the comparative general ideas and results. At the end of the day, the creators use diverse strategies to accomplish the same objective.
The Duke of Illyria in Twelfth Night and the soccer commander in She’s The Man, is enamored with Oliva in both the story and movie. Olivia goes gage for Viola, who was masked as Cersario in Twelfth Night, and Sebastian, her twin sibling in bot motion pictures, in She’s The Man. Some hints are given in both that it’s a girl who playing
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Sir Toby returns to Sir Andrew with exchange and mix up of words telling him that Cersario says he is ready for him. As Antonio enters the scene he ends of fight Cesario because he thinks it is Sebastain. Antonio because he’s a wanted man in Illyria. In She’s A Man, at a carvinal, Duke Orsino enters a kissing booth to kiss Viola. Viola ex-boyfriend Justin catches them kissing and he began to fight Duke Orsino, due to Duke Orsino telling Justin they can fight it out on the soccer field. Duke Orsino also finds out Viola is Sebastian twin sister she talked about to him.
There is another similar case where in both the play and movie, some other guy likes Olivia. Malvolio has a crush on Olivia, so the others in the play starts to play jokes on him to make him seem like a fool. There is a forge letter written to be seen by him, he sees the letter and starts to play by the forge rules written down. Malcolm puts a spider name Malviolo in the two teammates room because he sees Duke Orsino has a crush on Olivia

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