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    Twelfth Night Essay. Life is not fair‚ the characters in Twelfth Night‚ a play wrote by William Shakespeare‚ generally speaking‚ do not get what they deserve. Some of the characters get too much. And it’s unfair to the others‚ and some get too little. Most of the iniquity happens with the second category. When characters get too little of what they deserve. This essay is going to explain how the characters were cheated out and what they actually deserved. At the end of the story‚ Olivia got too

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    The play twelfth night‚ mainly a comedy‚ presents the challenges faced by the characters throughout the play. During the play many relations those were already going on were broken while the new ones started. The most interesting relation that developed was between Duke Orsino and Viola. The love between them never started as a normal love because Viola always met Duke in the disguise of a male named Cesario and Duke found Cesario a trustworthy person and uses him as an intermediary to confess his

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    Consider the elements of comedy employed by Shakespeare in Act one – how might a modern day audience’s reactions be different to that of a Shakespearean audience? Shakespeare uses several main elements of comedy in Act One of Twelfth Night. These elements are used to promote comic reaction with the audience; some of these elements are still relevant to modern audiences today. Throughout Act One‚ Shakespeare uses antonyms to create comic effect. He uses this element on several of his characters

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    Shakespeare’s ​ Twelfth Night​ ‚ Feste‚ the fool‚ plays an important role in the play. Aside   from adding humour to the play‚ Feste has shown ­ on more than one occasion ­ the true  personalities of characters‚ which helps the reader further understand the play and characters.  Feste in some ways is also deceiving and though he was not seen making profound remarks‚  Feste seems to be the wisest out of all the characters. Feste the fool‚ brings cohesiveness to the  play‚ due to his clever humour‚ decept

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    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 is also significant as a malicious version of the deceits practised elsewhere in the play. The monochrome portrait of an officious autocrat who is only too happy

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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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    Twelfth Night is the merriest of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies‚ it is also the saddest. The Christian associations of the title suggests the carpe diem theme which runs through the play. Epiphany‚ according to Christian mythology‚ is the time when the shepherds recognized the birth of Christ. The feast of epiphany is the last festival of the Christmas season‚ after which death takes over. This cycle of life is an extension of the ancient pagan fertility rituals. The mood is similar in Keats’s ‘To

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    “He is the wisest character in the play”. How far do you agree with this interpretation of Feste in Twelfth Night? This essay will explore the notion that Feste is the wisest character in the play. The definition of wise is “having or showing experience‚ knowledge‚ and good judgment: a wise precaution.” Feste is the epitome of irony‚ I think a modern day audience would the audience may believe a ‘fool’ to be purely someone to make you laugh and be an idiot. However Feste is very much the opposite;

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    In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night‚ we are presented with various characters and plots which supply the play with comedic elements. The comedy of Twelfth Night predominantly stems from the ‘foolish’ characters and the scenarios they are involved in. Traditionally a fool is defined as ‘a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person’‚ ‘a person who is duped or imposed on’‚ or ‘a jester or clown‚ especially one retained in a royal or noble household’. (1) In Twelfth Night it is clear that at

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    not dissimilar to the one that concludes Twelfth Night1 and leaves Feste at the finish-line. “But that’s all one‚ our play is done …” After everything has been sorted out‚ and the proper pairings are arranged‚ verbal and structural rhythms converge to frame a sort of closure—though playing is never done‚ as the next and final verse suggests: “And we’ll strive to please you every day.” Bradley‚ having come to the end of an essay on Feste‚ extends Twelfth Night speculatively beyond the fool’s song‚ and

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