The Hidden Passion of Orsino In the play Twelfth Night‚ the character Orsino is a man of deep passion who attempts‚ but is mostly unsuccessful‚ at hiding his passion. This is seen in many of his speeches‚ including his first speech of the play (1.1.1-15)‚ his interaction with his court in the second act (2.4.1-6)‚ and his impassioned speech when he thinks Cesario has married Olivia (5.1.110-124). In these speeches‚ his thinly veiled passion is seen in several formal elements of his speech‚ including
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Trevor Nunn’s adaptation of "Twelfth Night" is a masterpiece of insight and nuance. Instead of simply playing this gender-bending comedy of mistaken identity‚ the director highlights the dark undertones of the plot which show surprising depth. There are some alterations from the original text‚ but those who are less familiar with Shakespeare among the audience can appreciate the story being more easy to follow. For example‚ when Duke Orsino utters the famous opening line of the play‚ "If music be
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The Twelfth Night bears elements that define the disorder of society‚ and the inevitable chaos that follows from a seemingly innocent act. The abundant carnivalesque elements within the play contribute to the notion that nothing is as it seems‚ building on the age old notion that there is more than meets the eye. In a type of social commentary‚ Shakespeare illustrates the idea that order is nothing more than a façade in the way that it pertains to gender and social roles. With Queen Elizabeth I
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Twelfth Night - Multi-Paragraph Essay #1 "Twelfth Night" is a story about a countess who is loved by various men as she tries to cope with her brother’s death. The story focusses especially on falling love and how it causes one’s character to change. Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night" shows‚ especially through Olivia and Malvolio‚ how different people react to being in love and how their behavior and relationships change. Olivia‚ the beautiful and elegant countess‚ changes from a cunning and smart women
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stories; a popular and recurring one being love. It can be paired with different and sometimes opposite themes to add excitement‚ even making the story have unexpected plot twists. Focusing on two plays; Sophocles’ Antigone and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night‚ the theme of love will be depicted differently. Love‚ a universal subject in many plays‚ can be incorporated as various forms and be paired with themes such as tragedy‚ and humor. Love‚ when combined with tragedy‚ creates unpredictable consequences
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In the Renaissance-era romantic comedy‚ "Twelfth Night"‚ William Shakespeare presents to us an entertaining play riddled with humorous plots and‚ in some instances‚ comical and witty exchanges between the characters in the play. In a novel peppered with subtle notions of deceit and illusion‚ it is fascinating how some of the most revealing truths about the characters actually lie beneath the innocent banters. Under the influence of illusion and deception‚ the figures in the play are often lost in
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Shakespeare’s comedy‚ ’Twelfth Night’‚ is not only about tricks‚ pranks or black humour; moreover‚ it’s deeply about love and different types of love and how they affect different personalities. The different types of love mentioned by Shakespeare in ’Twelfth Night’ are: True love‚ boasting love‚ self-love and friendship. ’Twelfth Night’ consists of many love triangles and the different characters involved in the triangles don’t end up with the ones they love or even their love makes them blind
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Gender Roles in Twelfth Night and As you Like It Much of the comedy in Twelfth Night and As you Like It emerges from Shakespeare’s distortion of traditional gender roles‚ as both plays contain strong female leads who disguise themselves as males. Though both Viola and Rosalind help their less-than-ideal beloveds woo their own objects of desire‚ and both disguises emerge party from the loss of a male familial figure‚ the women inhabit their male facades in drastically different ways. In both plays
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’Dedicated to work‚ sobriety and regular hours ’. To what extent is Malvolio an anomalous character in the revelry of ’Twelfth Night ’? Malvolio is portrayed primarily as the Puritan servant of Olivia against a backdrop of raucous Catholic festivities. Twelfth Night was a celebration in Elizabethan England held on the 5th January‚ whereby for one night of the year‚ households would invert their hierarchy with servants acting as their superiors. A Lord of Misrule would be chosen through placing
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AS English Literature – Unit 2 (Coursework) EXPLORATIVE STUDY Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is studied and his Much Ado About Nothing is used to explore the theme of love. Performances are referred to. Shakespeare’s romantic comedies explore love‚ the “divine passion”‚ in all its moods and intensities. Most characters in these two plays are in love‚ find love or seek it. Twelfth Night‚ reputedly the most mature of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies‚ weaves several such love stories into an intricate
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