Essay Comparing A Doll's House And Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will by William Shakespeare and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen are two plays that I find fascinating. In Twelfth Night, I found the way they speak captivating because no one speaks like that anymore. In A Doll’s House, I found the plot very interesting because of how detailed the playwright describes it. Both playwrights have a character that is very similar to each other. In Twelfth Night, it is Orsino and in A Doll’s House, it's Dr.Rank. Both love characters that do not want them. In the end, both of them had a different outcome. Orsino had gotten married to Viola, while at the end Dr.Rank died.
In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare made Orsino ( Duke of Illyria) in love with Olivia who is a noble Illyrian lady. Orsino only cares about himself and tends not to care about anyone's feelings. If he wants something he won't stop until he gets it. In the beginning of the act one, he talks about how beautiful he thinks Olivia is. “Oh, When mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purged the air of pestilence.”(pg 649) In that line, Shakespeare used a hyperbole to describe how Orsino thinks of Olivia. This is hyperbole because “purged the air of pestilence” means she made the air around her sweeter and purer,
He used personification in a line that Orsino had “If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! It had a dying fall;..”(pg 649) It is personification because Shakespeare gave an appetite a human aspect which it getting sick and dying, which it cannot. Also, a strain cannot have a dying fall. Another use of figurative language is when Orsino said “Oh, it came o’er my ear like the sweet sound. That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor.” This quote is a simile because he compared the sound of music and love to the smell of violets using the word