Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare

Love is an everlasting theme throughout literature. In the play “Twelfth Night”, Shakespeare explores and illustrates 3 different types of love--true, self, and friendship. For each type of love, Shakespeare created its own characters to represent it, and these characters and their love played a major role in the play.
True Love: There are three romantic love stories in the play. In the opening, Duke Orsino expressed his deep love for Countess Olivia. Later, in the following scene, Viola disguised herself as a man, named Cesario, and serves the Duke. Soon after Viola found herself falling in love with Orsino, she was asked by Duke to woo Olivia for him. To make things more complicated, Olivia fell in love with Cesario, who is actually Viola disguised. In fact, Duke Orsino’s love is a kind of lust, he don’t even once met Olivia and just attracted by her grieving for her family; Olivia’s love is a kind of illusion, she just attracted by the some idiosyncrasies of Cesario, not the person.
Viola’s love is, unlike the love of the other two characters, a genuine feeling toward her beloved, Orsino. This true love never changes throughout the play, it is a main clue that leads the whole play. For example, in Act I,
One character value friendship so much is Antonio, who is not only Sebastian’s saved but also his faithful friend. Moreover, Antonio gives his purse to Sebastian, and fight for Cesario because he mistakes one twin for another. Antonio once said to Sebastian: “If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant” and “I could not stay behind you: my desire”, which show his passion to Sebastian. The second deep friendship is between Orsino and Cesario, Orsino regard Cesario as a favorite young lad and a very close friend. So he trusts Cesario, and telling Cesario his inner love, "unclasp'd to the book even of my secret