Viola Character Analysis Essay
Viola
She is a immensely likeable character in this play, and she does not have serious faults. Her love unlike the other characters in the play, seem to be the only form of passionate and true love, as compared to self-indulgent love sickness.
(Act two Scene four)
She pined in thought. and with yellow and green melancholy, she sat like patience on a monument. smiling at grief, was it not love indeed?
"Patience on a monument" is an allegory figure of Patience adorned on the Renaissance tombstones . With this, Viola is comparing her imaginary sister (herself, whom she concealed from Orsino, and known to Orsino as Cesario the servant boy) with a statue. This is a contrast of a living thing and a dead thing, which symbolises the passion in her love compared to Orsino's grandeur self-indulgent love, her passion being alive and burning which is silent and eternal-enduring, while his love sickness another form of "dead" love, a love which is fake and untrue, a love which only consists of himself. Using a tomb to show love, also shows that love ultimately is fatal, and brings death of the heart should the person not requite their love.
Orsino & Olivia
These two are similarly alike in …show more content…
So that he will have an overdose of it, and will cease to desire for love anymore. In this quote, Shakespear portrays Orsino as a self-indulgent indiviual, because when you lack love you had two options- starving yourself from it, or to stuff yourself with it. With this logic in mind, Orsino decided to stuff himself with it, which shows his self-indulgence, because he'd rather stuff and lament after that he has no more love, than to starve and lament that he is hungry for love. Because of his upbringing as a noble, he does not face hardships and therefore contributes to such a hedonistic
She is a immensely likeable character in this play, and she does not have serious faults. Her love unlike the other characters in the play, seem to be the only form of passionate and true love, as compared to self-indulgent love sickness.
(Act two Scene four)
She pined in thought. and with yellow and green melancholy, she sat like patience on a monument. smiling at grief, was it not love indeed?
"Patience on a monument" is an allegory figure of Patience adorned on the Renaissance tombstones . With this, Viola is comparing her imaginary sister (herself, whom she concealed from Orsino, and known to Orsino as Cesario the servant boy) with a statue. This is a contrast of a living thing and a dead thing, which symbolises the passion in her love compared to Orsino's grandeur self-indulgent love, her passion being alive and burning which is silent and eternal-enduring, while his love sickness another form of "dead" love, a love which is fake and untrue, a love which only consists of himself. Using a tomb to show love, also shows that love ultimately is fatal, and brings death of the heart should the person not requite their love.
Orsino & Olivia
These two are similarly alike in …show more content…
So that he will have an overdose of it, and will cease to desire for love anymore. In this quote, Shakespear portrays Orsino as a self-indulgent indiviual, because when you lack love you had two options- starving yourself from it, or to stuff yourself with it. With this logic in mind, Orsino decided to stuff himself with it, which shows his self-indulgence, because he'd rather stuff and lament after that he has no more love, than to starve and lament that he is hungry for love. Because of his upbringing as a noble, he does not face hardships and therefore contributes to such a hedonistic