BACKGROUND LECTURE ON TWELFTH NIGHT The following information is based upon my taped lecture on this play. Although this text version is not the same as the taped lecture‚ it does contain the same information. All references are based on the Signet paperback edition which you should consult in conjunction with this lecture. Twelfth Night was probably written in 1601 and first performed in January of 1602. We know this because the play is mentioned that year in the diary of a
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Man fears the darkness of night for the same reason he fears dying – because it is a place of uncertainty and within it lies the unknown. Not being able to anticipate occurrences and obstacles is often even more unnerving than being sure of them‚ and not being able to change the outcome. Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost explore this common source of human anxiety in the darkness and the night in their works: “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and “Acquainted with the Night.” In Frost’s poem he examines
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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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characters to redefine what it means to be in love with a female‚ and to reveal to his audiences the drastic lengths that the males go to for their female counterparts. Shakespeare uses Antony from Antony and Cleopatra‚ as well as‚ Duke Orsino from Twelfth Night to demonstrate the subtle power that women had over men because
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Twelfth Night is known for being one of the finest romantic comedies of all time. The play begins with love at first sight‚ which then gradually transitions into a love triangle. However‚ it is kept light with the addition of the subplot. The movie version of the play Twelfth Night is fairly relative to the written version of the play‚ yet it did have some minor differences. As the written version is written by William Shakespeare himself‚ it is most likely the most accurate version of the play‚
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expressed her talent into it. Spring Night was created in same way as well as her other poetry. Of course as if beautifulness is one of her special character‚ Spring Night got this elements that embodied its entire stanzas. At the end‚ once again her readers got impressed from how wonderful the poetry was. All of those impression getting well as we appreciated by understand it by using biographical approach. What does this kind of this approach deal with Spring Night ? Well‚ we could not really tell
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around you‚ my mind has locked this down. I do not feel anymore”. Once you stop being human you no longer have the ability to think. You have lost contact with all outside that you start to act like what they made you which is a animal. In the book Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ he is discussing the topic of dehumanization. The time is 1942 the concentration camps throughout Europe. We are following the story of Elie his father‚ and thousands of others as they struggle to survive hell on earth. Although some
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The Thousand-and-Third Night’s Tale Proposal Main Idea Plants. Vegetation. Trees. Shrubs. Branches. Fruits. Blossoms. Sustenance. Nourishment. Florae serve as the main inspiration for what I wish to write about for this assignment. In The Arabian Nights most of the geography is set in Middle Eastern lands. I took it upon myself to research the green life that is geologically present there and became inspired by what these plants may metaphorically represent. As I studied the information of foliage
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Response for 12th Night If there is one literal device to explain the play by Shakespeare Twelfth Night‚ or What You Will‚ it is dramatic irony. Not only does Twelfth Night have dramatic irony repeated in almost every act‚ but even the ending is one dramatic irony – but instead of the irony directed towards a character‚ it’s directed to the audience of the play. Furthermore‚ dramatic irony is used effectively‚ because of not only adding comedic relief but also to elaborate the story line. One
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No Coincidence One Summer Night‚ written by Ambrose Bierce‚ is a satirical story which involves a presumably dead man‚ Henry Armstrong‚ who was in fact comatose‚ being ironically killed by the shady caretaker of the graveyard. Irony is a recurring literary device in many of Bierce’s short stories and books‚ reflective of his time period where satire and sarcasm in stories was popular. Bierce is quite known for his similarities in plot outlines in his literature. In his most famous short story‚ An
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