Duke Orsino is one of the main characters involved in the love triangle and dynamics of Twelfth Night. At the beginning of the play‚ Duke Orsino is very obsessively in love with Olivia. He changes his love interests very quickly when he finds out that Cesario is actually Viola‚ which puzzlingly suggests that he was not in love with Olivia but rather with the idea of being in love. Therefore‚ I imagine he is handsome‚ due to Viola immediately falling for him; strong‚ to satisfy his need to uphold
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This essay talks about the role of love as it used in Shakespeare’s comedies. It directly talks about “Much Ado about Nothing” and “Twelfth Night”‚ and how they use love in their stories. “Shakespeare expects us to accept wonder as having some kind of value in itself and in its relations to the action that has gone before. We are presented with the wonderful as an incitement to knowledge and to pleasure; and we are asked also to consider the dramatic fact that those who participate in the happy ending
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How does Shakespeare present the theme of deception in the first two acts of Twelfth night? Shakespeare’s Twelfth night‚ focuses mainly on the theme of deception in both main plot and the sub-plot. Not only do the characters deceive each other‚ but many of them are also self-deceived and we‚ as the audience‚ begin to realise ourselves that we are sometimes deceived. This creates great opportunities for Shakespeare to create humour and dramatic irony‚ which a Shakespearian audience would understand
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Paradoxes within Shakespeare’s ironic drama Twelfth Night In Shakespeare’s uniquely constructed comedy‚ Twelfth Night‚ there are several paradoxes within the characters. Misinterpretations as well as false presentation of reality are both common occurrences within the characters. Nearly the entire cast of characters use or fall victim to some form of deceit. Both Andrew and Viola present themselves as people they are not‚ and Orsino and Malvolio are fooled themselves about who they are and where
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How does the dramatic device of the fool contribute to the comedy in Twelfth Night? Feste is Shakespeare’s comedic tool in Twelfth Night. He uses puns and a mix of prose and iambic pentameter to titillate the audience. However‚ in a different manner‚ Malvolio is also presented as a fool‚ but in the sense that he is at the end of the jests of others‚ which amuses us due to how Shakespeare has made the audience dislike him. Typically‚ in Shakespeare’s comedies such as As you like it‚ the fool is
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and Andrew for their drunkenness‚ but she also tolerates them and shows her own capacity for pranks by initiating the phony love letter ploy against her supervisor‚ Malvolio. In I.iii‚ Maria draws our attention to Sir Toby Belch’s habitual late nights and drunkenness when she warns him that his niece‚ Countess Olivia‚ has lost patience with his dissolute behavior. She also prepares us for the entrance shortly afterward of Sir Andrew Aguecheek by referring to him as "a foolish knight" whom Sir Toby
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Usually stories have only have one humor going on whether that be stupid humor‚ jokester humor‚ accidental humor‚ or just any kind of humor throughout the tale. Well in this tale‚ the Miller (the one telling the tale) would probably be in the range of accidental humor. It just turned out to be that his take was funny and he was acting funny. First of all the Miller was drunk when he
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that is so is so.” To what extent do you agree with this in relation to Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night”? In Shakespeare’s comedy ‘Twelfth Night’‚ the main theme of disguise and façade is used to create comedy as the characters ‘conceal’ themselves. This adds to the confusion and consequently the characters‚ and at times the audience‚ are doubtful of what is real. Shakespeare makes it clear that ‘Twelfth Night’ is up for interpretation through the use of his double title ‘what you will’; he introduces
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To What Extent Does Shakespeare Present Love as ‘Foolish’ In ‘Twelfth Night’ Gemma Hanham William Shakespeare wrote ‘The Twelfth Night’ in the midst of his career‚ during the early 1600s. The play is considered by most to be one of the author’s greatest comedies. The play explores issues of deception‚ disguise and the extremities characters will go to as a result of love. Shakespeare presents love as foolish in ‘Twelfth Night’ by using the inadequacy of characters affected by love as a catalyst
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Sense of Humor What do you know about sense of humor? Did you know that it helps you control human health and emotions? “Sense of humor is a way to produce and experience pleasure by provoking or being provoked to laugh. It is also a trait of appreciating the humorous‚ you can’t live without humor it is inexplicable” (McMahon). “Most people have it and are able to laugh at jokes or funny situations that people make. This is developed at a very early age‚ and it is considered vital part of human
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