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    In Twelfth Night there are many disguises five of which are found in Act One alone. These disguises are played by the characters of Orcino‚ Viola‚ Sir Toby‚ Olivia and Malvolio. Eash and every disguise functions on its own way in the plot development. the first disguise is that of Orsion’s. He is the wealthy Duke who has become love sick over Olivia. He says‚ ’If music be the food of love‚ play on.’ He is the supposingly most deep or poetic lover . Despite this strong love he seems to be more in

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    Twelfth Night Questions

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    TWELFTH NIGHT: SCENE QUESTIONS ACT 1‚ SCENE i 1. Where does the play open? 2. Imagine you are the director of a Twelfth Night production. What kind of music would you have played for this scene? 3. The Duke has a very famous speech‚ in the beginning of the play‚ about love. How is the Duke feeling about love as the play opens? 4. What news does Valentine bring the Duke? How does the Duke take this news? 5. Even though we haven’t met Olivia yet‚ what do we know about her? ACT I‚

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    Soliloquy Twelfth Night

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    Soliloquy Analysis Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a comedy of love and betrayal. This play was written in verse which adds a metrical pattern which consists of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse). At the start of the trumpets Duke Orsino enters wanting to be loved by Countess Olivia. However‚ she refuses to be seen for seven years because she misses her father and brother. Meanwhile‚ after a shipwreck‚ Viola is found a survivor. Viola disguises herself as a man with the name

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    Maria In Twelfth Night

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    in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that I identify with most is Maria‚ who is loyal and obeys authority‚ but is still able to enjoy herself; I share all of these qualities with Maria. Maria’s loyalty to Countess Olivia is demonstrated many times throughout Twelfth Night‚ and I demonstrate my loyalty to my family and friends every day. Maria‚ eager to do Olivia’s will‚ often reprimands Sir Toby Belch. Maria: “By my troth‚ Sir Toby‚ you must come in earlier o’ nights: your cousin‚ my lady‚ takes

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    Hamlet, The Twelfth Night

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    Hamlet‚ Macbeth‚ The Twelfth Night. All famous plays written by Shakespeare‚ an innovative playwright and author. Shakespeare has changed the way people view poetry and the world itself. He was the first playwright to give women rights. Shakespeare is a talented and brilliant author. At the end of these plays‚ it all comes down to one question: Should Shakespeare still be read to this day? While Shakespeare’s language is outdated and burdensome‚ the works of art are still relevant due to some marginalized

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    In William Shakespeare’s comedic play‚ "Twelfth Night"‚ a recurring theme is deception. The characters in the play used deception for a variety of purposes. Viola’s use of deception involves her disguising herself as a man in order to obtain a job with the Duke of Illyria‚ Orsino. On the other hand‚ Maria‚ Olivia’s servant‚ writes a letter to Malvolio in Olivia’s handwriting to make Malvolio act foolishly because of his love for Olivia. While some use deception as a means of survival‚ others use

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    The overall ending of Twelfth Night is subversive‚ from Malvolio’s uncomfortable promises of revenge to Viola still in her Cesario attire after the grand unveiling of her identity. Feste’s song highlights these ambiguities: it is the only epilogue song with the exception of Love’s Labours Lost which is not celebratory (the latter being overshadowed by death). Feste’s lyrics emphasise the uselessness of material possessions when faced with the onslaught of time‚ and comes directly after Orsino’s professed

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    During the “willow cabin” passage in Twelfth Night‚ hyperbole and polysyndeton are used to exaggerate the tone of Viola’s irritation and desperation. The entire speech is an amplification of how Viola feels and what she would really do in this kind of situation. The speech speaks highly of the love that Viola has for Orsino and the extent of what she would do to get it. Not only is she desperate for his love‚ but he is gunning after Oliva‚ someone who will never want him back. Viola tells Olivia

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    Twelfth Night Ambiguity

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    on genuine love‚ love of love‚ and false love. All there‚ becoming more and more evident throughout the play. Although a strange play; with cross-dressers‚ homoerotic attractions‚ and strange ambitions‚ his message became clear. Although “The Twelfth Night” creates an atmosphere of confusion and ambiguity

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    The sub-plot of Twelfth Night‚ the gulling of Malvolio by Sir Toby Belch‚ Maria‚ Feste‚ and Aguecheek‚ is justly famous as one of Shakespeare’s funniest experiments in New Comedy‚ that is‚ in a style of comedy which is basically quite different from the pastoral romantic style of the main plot. The basis for the sub-plot is one of the oldest and most popular subjects for New Comedy - the unmasking of the hypocrite‚ a satiric exposure of apparent virtue so as to humiliate the hypocrite and make him

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