Twelfth Night, By William Shakespeare

“It’s easy to say I love you but if it's not behind the eyes or the truth then it's nonsense and the audience will see it”(Johnny Depp). In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare shows that love is a blind journey that can cause pain. When you have found your love or are already in love, you become a walking zombie; the only thing you see is the good things about your partner and your relationship. When we tend to fall in love we often make the worst mistakes of our lifetime. In Twelfth Night Shakespeare is saying that love makes you not able to see the truth. Viola is a girl playing a boy who works for the duke; but since the duke is madly in love with a lady named Olivia he isn’t able to see that Viola loves him. Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night to express how easily we fall under love’s spell; however, in the end we are always left with pain.
Love can be precious like a puppy or evil like a knife. We let love control us, and our heads become clouded because we let the love overtake us and we aren’t able to see the right things. In Twelfth Night Duke Orsino lets his love for Olivia take control and he is not able to notice how Viola has confessed her love to him. “ Hath for your love a great a pang of heart as you have for Olivia. You cannot love her. You tell her so. Must she not then be answered?”(94). Viola explains to Orsino there is a lady who loves him as powerfully and agonizingly as he loves Olivia. Viola also expresses how she is the lady who loves him, but he can’t love her because she is thought to be a boy. This is an example how love is a quest of true emotional pain and