How Does Shakespeare Use Disguises In Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is a comedic play written by William Shakespeare, full of love triangles and misunderstandings. Shakespeare uses disguises, classes, and lies to unfold the misjudgment of devotion and love characters have for each other in the play. Love blinds people, causing them to prioritize and risk their life and jobs to aid their loved ones, but in Twelfth Night characters also become blinded from social classes and unreciprocated love to the point where other characters in the book judge them.
Love makes characters in Twelfth Night prioritize the people they love: put them before themselves and their reputation. Throughout the play Malvolio, a steward in Olivia’s court, time after time risks his job and reputation for the one he loves:
In multiple occasions love deprived characters in Twelfth Night view pursuing someone or something unattainable as mad and crazy. Maria sees the love Malvolio has for Olivia as a joke and even uses it as his achilles heel because she finds his devotion to someone that would never love him crazy. Maria confides her judgmental opinion of Malvolio and wicked plots aimed at Malvolio in Toby, Andrew, and Fabian;
“If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach before my lady. He will come to her in yellow stockings, and ’tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow me.”
Olivia falls in love with Cesario, someone who isn’t real but instead an illusion. Not only does this feed Shakespeare's comedy of errors but also proves that Viola herself judges someone for loving someone they can’t have when she herself loves Orsino as a “man”. In a monologue Viola pieces the puzzle together, “Poor lady, she were better love a dream./Disguise… As I am man,/My state is desperate for my master’s love.”(2.2.26...36-37) Love in others is hard to understand and can easily be judged because it’s not ours to understand and private. In Twelfth Night, love plays an essential role and allows the audience to walk through the maze of disguises and love triangles. Love in the play reveals what charcters like malvoio are capable to do for those they desire, reveals complications in l, and unleashes brutal judgement from other characters. Without the role of love in Twelfth Night there there would be no