Identity is often misinterpreted in common films and novels. These originated from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night about a girl named Viola‚ who washed ashore and dresses as a man so she can raise money to return to her land. One of the films that is based off the idea of deception through appearance is Some Like it Hot‚ two men searching for employment in a band dress as girls‚ cloaking themselves from a mob. Deception in appearance is common throughout these two stories in several ways. Disguise
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or reveals a 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
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Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night explores the idea of sexuality being fluid through cross-dressing and mistaken identities. There is a specific love triangle that really explores ideas that went against the societal norms of Shakespeare’s time. The love triangle occurs between Oliva‚ a noblewoman‚ Duke Orsino‚ and Viola‚ who is also disguised as a man named Cesario. Viola is in disguise as a man to work for Duke Orsino. The play progresses and Viola begins to fall for Orsino. However Orsino is in love
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Twelfth Night Comedy in Other Writings While Great Expectations and Gulliver’s Travels were not written as comedy‚ humor is seen in them. The comedy in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night can be related to the comedy in those writings‚ although Shakespeare used a variety of comedic techniques‚ not used in either Great Expectations or Gulliver’s Travels. The comedy in Twelfth Night varies greatly from the comedy in Great Expectations and Gulliver’s Travels at times. Irony is a common comedic element seen
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study‚ Shakespeare’s moments of sudden love will be examined in both art and science. Shakespeare has depicted the unyielding pain of longing for or losing love‚ and its unpredictable nature through his writing. Let us take his masterpiece of Twelfth Night where Olivia is sought after by Duke Orsino who is in pains for her love. But alas‚ Olivia has vowed to sworn off men as loving tribute to her dead brother and Orsino sends Viola to profess his love to Olivia. Enter the unpredictability of this
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The fluidity and ambiguity with which Viola presents gender is central to the drama of Twelfth Night. But to what extent are Viola’s gender roles essential to the comedy of the play? The arrivals of Viola and Sebastian in Illyria serve as the catalysts for drama in Twelfth Night. The presence of twins of different sexes yet identical in appearance is a dramaturgical device crucial to the comic resolution‚ whilst being somewhat farcical. It is the misunderstandings which Viola’s cross-dressing inevitably
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Twelfth Night A mood of self-indulgence prevails in Illyria. The Duke‚ Orsino‚ languidly pines for the love of Olivia‚ a noblewoman who has forsworn society to spend seven years mourning her dead brother. Contrary to Olivia’s assumed somberness‚ frivolity reigns in her house. Her uncle‚ Sir Toby Belch‚ presides over drunken riots attended by Sir Andrew Aguecheek‚ a rich but foolish knight whose wooing of Olivia Toby encourages for the financial benefits it affords himself‚ Olivia’s gentlewoman‚
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Parallelism is often used in pieces of literature to make characters and moments from the plot memorable to the reader‚ whether it be fiction or non-fiction‚ novel or play. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is no different as parallelism is scattered all throughout the story in many different forms and through many different characters. These characters may seem similar to one another in a lot of ways‚ but their outcomes at the end of the play are often very different. These characters- Orsino and Olivia
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In modern day‚ it is almost impossible to find someone without social media. It connects friends‚ business‚ and even family. During Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night‚ twitter and facebook did not exist. What would happen if did? Our group was assigned to create social media for characters in the story. When developing the project‚ we thought about each character relationships and behavior. Ultimately‚ to create an accurate Yahoo Answers account. Malvolio-- a character involved in a subplot to the Viola-Olivia-Orsino-
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The Twelfth Night bears elements that define the disorder of society‚ and the inevitable chaos that follows from a seemingly innocent act. The abundant carnivalesque elements within the play contribute to the notion that nothing is as it seems‚ building on the age old notion that there is more than meets the eye. In a type of social commentary‚ Shakespeare illustrates the idea that order is nothing more than a façade in the way that it pertains to gender and social roles. With Queen Elizabeth I
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