Twelfth Night – Exploring the names of the Characters I am going to explore the two names of: * Olivia * Feste Olivia When I first saw the name ‘Olivia’‚ I automatically thought of anagrams. Olivia is almost a perfect anagram of ‘Viola’! Although Olivia and Viola possess a number of qualities which are not just different‚ but in complete opposition with one another other‚ they do in fact have a great deal in common. The names Shakespeare has given the two characters is perhaps a reflection
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 Shakespeare uses disguise in his play‚ Twelfth Night‚ to cause confusion and internal conflict between his characters and it is this confusion and conflict that appeal to the audience. It keeps them wondering how many more of these situations will arise‚ and in the end‚ how will this confusion and conflict be resolved? The first time that this is evident is in Act I‚ Scene IV‚ where Cesario‚ really Viola is sent by her master‚ Orsino‚ to win the love of Countess Olivia for
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Looking back at history‚ documents show the tension between Puritans and Shakespeare. The play Twelfth Night is perfect evidence that shows how Shakespeare disagreed with the Puritans beliefs .Shakespeare decides to use the character Malvolio to represent the puritans at that time period. Shakespeare uses the character of Malvolio to ridicule the puritans and portrays the puritans as ambitious‚ selfish and bitter. The Puritans gained their power after they renounced the Anglican Church‚ this was
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Topic 8: The comic journey of twelfth night is usually from the darkness of ignorance to the light of self knowledge. Discuss this journey in Twelfth Night. The play‚ Twelfth Night‚ was written as a comedy‚ however‚ one can clearly see that it served many purposes such as criticizing the society of the time and as a result posed difficult questions on a society which in itself was ignorant on many issues in the society. Many characters undergo a change from ignorance to being enlightened by self
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Imagery Imagery is the language and poetry that is often visual and with big discrete words bring an image to the reader’s brain. In the two poems “Kind of Blue” by Lynn Powell and “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” by William Shakespeare it is clear that in both of the poems that they use adjectives and are concrete in there writing in order to spark the five senses in imagery. In both of these short poems it is clear that the type of imagery that they use is visual imagery. In “Kind of
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Discuss Shakespeare’s exploration of Saturnalian Vs Puritan in The Twelfth Knight. Within the twelfth Knight Malvolio is considered a puritan; he is a stiff character who wants nothing more than to spoil other people’s fun. The idea of the puritan ties in nicely with the plays major theme‚ the search for happiness. The puritans in Shakespeare’s day were members of the English National Church who emphasised the authority of the bible. Puritans would try and make festive seasons and holidays solemn
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William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night features many love relationships. These relationships can be difficult to follow. At the beginning of the play‚ Olivia the beautiful heiress‚ has sworn off men for seven years because of the recent deaths of her brother and father. However‚ when a new attractive male‚ Cesario comes to Illyria Olivia quickly shifts her thoughts on men. Desperate to find a man to tell her what to do‚ Olivia quickly falls into infatuation. This infatuation is evident because
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The plays tittle refers to the carnivalesque spirit of abandon that surrounded renaissance Twelfth Night festivities. In which the normal rules and order of social life were suspended or else deliberately reversed‚ "serious issues and events mingled perplexingly with revelry and apparent madness." Closer textual and language analysis provides a detailed demonstration of these ideas‚ the comedic elements of the play draw from the tensions created between common social restraints and the unruly
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Duke Orsino Character Analysis in Act 1 Orsino is the duke of the country Illyria. He is lovesick for the beautiful lady Olivia. From the first line of the play‚ Orsino’s character can already be distinguished as he rant about his love for Lady Olivia; “If music be the food of love‚ play on”‚ from this we already get the gist that he is a melancholy character. He uses the words such as ‘excess’‚ ‘surfeiting’‚ ‘appetite...sickening’ and ‘dying fall’ in his rant about his love for Olivia. These
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Explore how the play Twelfth Night portrays the theme of emotions and compare to at least two poems from the literary heritage. Twelfth Night‚ a play written by William Shakespeare‚ is a comedy which presents the theme of emotions in a respective approach. The emotions portrayed vary from different kinds including love‚ lust‚ hatred and jealousy. Twelfth Night can easily be compared to poems from the literary heritage. Sister Maude and He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven are two perfect examples
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