The paradox ‘dying fall ‘contradicts his feelings, changes tone and emphasizes the effect of having ‘excess’ of love and it subsequently dying, like the appetite. The metaphor ‘fresh’ (used several time throughout the scene) can be metaphorically associated with stale food providing reflection on whether Orsino’s love can preserved. This can also be said for The Dukes expectations of Olivia, mourning her ‘brother’s dead love’ then being ‘kill’d’ (‘dying’) by the ‘affections’ of another (himself).
Equally to ‘Twelfth Night’ we can also notice Anne’s ‘dying’ love of her fiancé and her finding the affections of somebody new. The repetition of ‘long’ (I’ve been ready a long, long time) assures the audience of her feeling towards Chris and indicates the amount of time she has had feeling for him.
The theme of love can be seen in ‘All my sons’. We are firstly drawn to this by Chris’s more direct declaration and the repetition of ‘Anne, I love you’ highlighting his lack of words which is very unlike the Duke’s hyperbolic speech. The ellipsis (…) used by Arthur Miller is effective in showing the difficulty in the finding of words and Chris’s declaration of ‘I have no imagination’ highlights a feeling of awkwardness.
In ‘Twelfth Night’ Shakespeare conveys Olivia as somebody tear-shedding hyperbolically for ‘seven years heat’ and the use of simile ‘like a cloistress’ affirm her feelings of love towards her brother. Unlike ‘Twelfth Night’, the death of the brother seems to have different of an effect on Chris and Anne’s growing love. In parts some of Chris’s language contains doubt or skepticism, the dialogue changes, containing questions, for example ‘you feel it’s wrong here, don’t you?’, ‘you’re sure?’ (In the following phrase) assuring him of her feelings and emphasize his feelings for his brother, not wanting to ‘win’ Anne ‘away’ from him. The use of the adjective ‘crazy’ used in later on also evokes Anne’s skepticism of her long lasting feelings towards her fiancé’s brother.
Both extracts are certainly very different in their form and structure and language (Shakespeare’s use of hyperbolical language and poetic devises help him convey Orsino’s idea of love and his self confident role. Arthur Mill’s use of clumsy face to face dialect indicate the difficulties in declaring love . But In their themes we can pick out similarities, love and desire and the effect a death can have on these feelings.