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    Twelfth Night

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    Twelfth Night 1 ) Characters Sir Andrew Aguecheek is very similar to very modern day sitcom males. He would be portrayed as slow and hard to understand. If he was the clown at work and in an office scenario he would be the one that would get blamed for the bad things happening around the office. Sebastian would be a character that always gets in trouble. Trouble follows him everywhere he goes. But‚ in the end things always work out. He goes with the flow and doesn’t get too worked up. Malvolio

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    34-5); Viola observes that he ‘is enough to play the fool’ (line 58): perhaps Feste knows more about her than he is saying explicitly The treatment of Malvolio in this scene brings out the latent cruelty inherent in comedy‚ and offers a darker perspective on Feste’s role. The play’s insistent questioning of categories of madness and sanity‚ or wisdom and folly is also brought to the fore. ‘I am well in my wits than a fool’‚ is Feste’s unpitying retort (lines 88-90). Feste’s disguise as Sir Topas

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    When I was reading the drama‚ A Doll’s House‚ I could instantly tell that the play would be best analyzed through the feminist perspective. The Feminist perspective centralizes on the actions and identifications of the female characters in a literary work. This perspective is mostly used to analyze the protagonist‚ which is Nora in this play; a pathological liar and manipulator. She acts as though she is innocent when regarding her actions‚ but she isn’t ignorant and knows that what she has committed

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    Ice-Candy-Man: A Feminist Perspective * Summary In Ice-Candy-Man the women characters cannot be easily subjugated. Lenny‚ her Ayah Shanta‚ her mother and Godmother are capable of new roles and responsibilities. It is the second novel by a woman writer dealing with the theme of Partition of India. It is likely to be a more neutral on account of the traumatic event of Partition which caused divisiveness‚ disharmony‚ mutual suspicion‚ hardening. Writer depicts the events overtaking the Partition

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    Article 1: Multiple Bodies ’Sportswomen‚ soccer and sexuality’ by Barbara Cox and Shona Thompson (The University of Auckland‚ New Zealand) In the text ’Multiple Bodies ’Sportswomen‚ Soccer and Sexuality’‚ Barbara Cox and Shona Thompson address how women face the pressure of biding by the rules of the ideal female body‚ and the social exclusions women face if they digress from the ’norms’ or struggle to achieve these optimal female traits. They explore how and why sportswomen are continuously being

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    Twelfth Night Essay

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    Witty‚ dark and humorous‚ Twelfth Night is a comedy written by Shakespeare and published in 1623. Shakespeare explores love and deception throughout the play‚ using dramatic irony and imagery to convey the themes. He presents unique characters including viola and Orsino. Twelfth night is an entertaining and humorous play with dark undertones. Romantic love is a key aspect of the twelfth night. Many characters seem to view love as a curse. Olivia describes love as a “plague” from which she suffers

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    All characters are presented as victims of a need to hide from their true selves. Choose four characters and summarise briefly how this comment relates to them. We are first introduced to Viola‚ one of the twins and central characters in this play. Going by the name of Cesario‚ she seeks to disguise herself in a man’s attire to assume the position of the Duke’s comrade‚ immediately conveying the notion of deception. In this manner‚ she illustrates that she does not deem herself fit to court the

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    Love and Twelfth Night

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    long speech when all the characters are present on stage Twelfth Night – Characters who participate in comedy (Viola did grew) – entertainment – to connect to the audience- conditioned Importance of being Earnest – Attempt to change identity (nobody grows) stereotypes are made fun of Similar kind of genre Different endings when other characters find out the secrets Difference in social class is seen very much in Twelfth Night where women do not marry men who are lower in class than them

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    this true of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night? It is easily argued that Shakespeare’s comedic plays have a similar‚ formulaic‚ structure. Dr Schwartz from the California Polytechnic State University argues that the ‘action of a comedy traces a movement from conflict to the resolution of conflict’. There are many disorders and complications in each plot‚ which by the end of the play must be resolved for the satisfaction of the Elizabethan audience‚ and in some perspectives‚ this applies to the modern

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    depiction of love in Twelfth Night. “The course of true love never did run smooth” is one of Shakespeare’s infamous quotes from one of his plays‚ namely‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is a quote that remains timeless throughout the ages and is centered on the theme of love and it explores the hardships associated with being In ‘true love’. Such is the same in Shakespeare’s depiction and presentation of love in another play written by him‚ which will be the main focus‚ Twelfth Night. The quote addresses

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