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    All’s Well‚ Helen becomes the pursuer‚ while Bertram takes on the role usually given to women‚ of the pursued. In Twelfth Night‚ Viola disguises herself as a man entirely and encounters all sorts of problems with her disguise. Both Helen and Viola undergo a change in status that generates comic effect. Helen changes from the passive romantic to the active pursuer while Viola changes her status as a woman to that of a man. Both Twelfth Night and All’s Well also include character’s whose status is reduced

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    character‚ Viola was on a female soccer team for a neighboring school. Viola’s team was cut because not enough players signed up. Viola’s boyfriend Justin is the captain of the Cornwall men’s soccer team and he tells her that she is better than half the guys on his team. Viola uses this to try to convince the Cornwall men’s soccer coach to let her and the fellow girls try out for the men’s team. The Coach tells Viola that men are genetically superior to women. After returning home Viola talks to her

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    a motif which runs throughout the play. | Orsino | ‘enough no more’ | Suggests Orsino’s fickleness as he quickly changes his mind on whether he wants to listen to music. | Orsino | ‘receiveth the sea’ | Could be a cataphoric reference to viola who will appear from the sea and who eventually ends up marrying Orsino. The sea is used by Orsino many times to describe his love. | Orsino | ‘the noblest I have’ | Suggests Orsino’s self importance as he calls himself ‘noble’. Suggests a narcissistic

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    While walking in the swamp near the old Spackle settlement‚ Todd finds a hole in the Noise which he has never experienced before. He returns home to ask Ben and Cillian about the hole. Ben and Cillian tell Todd that he is in danger because his Noise has alerted the town of the hole he found in the swamp. They give Todd a satchel they had already packed and tell him to leave Prentisstown without a reason. While leaving‚ Todd encounters the hole in the Noise and discovers that it is a girl. He is surprised

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    explore key ideas still relevant in our own time. Shakespeare’s play Twelfth night was written in 1602‚ as a comedy. It contains ideas and themes that link it closely with society. Twelfth Night explores the idea of love through his characterisation of Viola and Duke Orsino. Andy Fickman’s film modernised Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night through the change of some parts of the play and updating them. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is the original text of She’s the Man. Twelfth Night explores the key idea of

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    genders couldn’t be very common back then because we can’t even accept it now! Of course all actors were men‚ so they even played women‚ but what is the likelihood of a woman dressing as men outside of a play. To me the acceptance of the captain with Viola when she decides she will be a man is jarring. I wish it was like that today. With what we perceive as more openness in the world has led to gender identities not just being what was assigned to us at birth. There

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    secret affects the plot and adds to the main theme of the work. Viola‚ a character in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night‚ must keep the secret of her true identity. The play uses secrecy as an important element of the plot by creating irony‚ situational comedy‚ and tension‚ as well as affecting the plot and contributing to the overall meaning of the play. The plot of Twelfth Night is affect by the secret that Viola keeps and reveals. Viola is a lady of Messaline who has been shipwrecked on the coast of

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    Will Shakespeare ‘a lowly player’ with writer’s block and wealthy Viola De Lesseps who dreams of ‘love as there has never been in a play‚’ it explores the idea of ‘the truth and nature of love’ in the Elizabethan era. Madden portrays the harsh realities of the time through filmatic techniques such as dialogue‚ motifs and costuming to constantly remind the viewer throughout the film that the romance that is shared by Will and Viola cannot last in sixteenth century England. This is worth leaning about

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    variation of deception in this play was when Viola disguises herself as a man (Cesario)‚ Viola who barely escapes a shipwreck and gets rescued by a captain from a shipwreck and taken to Illyria‚ Viola feels the need to deceive the strangers of Illyria in order to protect her. She feels‚ it is unsafe and unwise if she reveals her true identity because it could be very easy to take advantage of her in this situation. The captain of the shipwrecked vessel advises Viola to go and find a job with the Duke Orsino

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    is Rosalind‚ a woman that has stolen Romeo’s heart at the beginning of the play. "Romeo and Rosaline. Scene one. God‚ I’m Good." (Norman pg.20). This shows how Will is inspired by Rosaline. It is not until he encounters the young noblewoman‚ Viola de Lesseps‚ that he discovers true love. This love that he meets is the one who takes his heart and is so special. The connection between Will and the woman he fell are love with is so special. Ultimately this movie is about the making of a

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