Discuss the different types of love presented in Twelfth Night
Discuss the different types of love presented in the play. True love is sincere based on actions and sacrificial services to make the other happy. It is always quiet and in disguise. Its based on inner qualities and driven by reason, principles of trust and commitment. True love is centered on pleasing the other and is more permanent; growing stronger as time passes. Infatuation on the other hand, is insincere and driven by emotions. It's superficial; based on just words and displays of affection. Infatuation is also self-centered; based on external appearances. It expects the other to meet your needs. Moreover, it's temporary. It's just a phase that one goes through. William Shakespeare shows us these two types of love outlining the entire play. However, there are more than just these types of love being presented in the play. There is also friendship and self-love, which are two other kinds of love, which is presented in the play. Sir Andrew and Malvolio show self-love in the play. Friendship is also another kind of love that is being presented in the play by Orsino and 'Caesario'. Almost every type of love is being expressed in this play. Sibling relationships, genuine love, self-love leading to complete blind love. The characters also seem to go to extremes to get want they want which is the love that they desire. From this we can sometimes even associate love with their
In what way do the Shakespearian characters in Twelfth Night use the issues of disguise and deception?
In what way do the Shakespearian characters in Twelfth Night use the issues of disguise and deception? Shakespeare's play, Twelfth Night effectively uses the issues of disguise and deception particularly through the character of Viola. The play is more or less based around this character and although many of the other characters also use disguise and/or deception, it is not to the same extent. However when Viola says "I'm not what I play" Act1 Sc5. this also true of the other characters in the play. The issue of disguise and deception causes some tension in the audience and even between the characters themselves. For example when disguises seem to slip, Shakespeare cleverly gets a gasping reaction from the audience. Also Viola's use of disguise and deception sets up a sort o chain or connection with the other characters and when her true identity is revealed so the other character' part in disguise and deception is also revealed. At the end there is a great exposure. Shakespeare uses the technique of the main plot about Viola search of he brother and several sub plot involving other minor characters which makes the play very clever and has the effect of a modern day soap programme. In Act 1 Sc2 she first uses a disguise and becomes a boy named Cesario. She does this in order to become a eunuch in the court of the Orsino, ruler of this unknown land for the purpose of finding
“Fools Tell All They Know” or The Wisdom of Feste in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
"Fools Tell All They Know" or The Wisdom of Feste in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Almost all of Shakespeare's plays have a clown character. Clowns were popular and amusing, and were simple characters that the lower class audience members could relate to, amidst all the royal people plays were populated with. But the clowns in Shakespeare's plays served a dual purpose. Not only were they sources of comedy, but also sources of truth. Wisdom and advice are imparted through the lines of these figures of fun. The clowns reflected the true nature or intentions of the other, more "noble characters. They also foreshadow coming events. One of the most striking examples of this type of clown is the character of Feste in Twelfth Night. Feste dispenses advice and exposes truths to most of the major characters of the play. Though he is only a fool, he seems to be the only character in the play that truly has his wits about him. Feste mirrors each of the main characters, revealing facets of their respective dispositions. He often shares knowledge about other characters of which they were not aware. For example, Feste is most closely related to Olivia. She is his patron and calls upon him to amuse her. But Feste does not entertain in the standard way of a clown. He realizes that Olivia is not in control of her emotions when it comes to love, and that she lacks control over her
Love in 'Twelfth Night'.
Shakespeare has presented love in Twelfth Nigh along with his other plays. Love is a major theme in the play, and the plot is based on love. Throughout the course of the novel Shakespeare explores the different types of love. Sure, there is self-love, true love, fake love, unrequited love and many more. There are many love triangles in the play. The main triangle being between Orsino, Olivia and Viola. It goes as such: Orsino loves Olivia, Olivia loves Viola and Viola loves Orsino. SO it goes in a circle with one loving another. However can the love between Orsino and Olivia be true love? Does Orsino really love Olivia for who she is? Many of the characters become involved with love for all the wrong reasons. In the beginning of the play we see Orsino and his desire for love and Olivia. "If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that suffeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall; O it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour" - 1.i.ln 1 This being the first words of the play by Orsino. From this we see that he is lovesick and very much in love. We can see that he is in love with the 'idea' of love, rather than love itself. He sees love as this perfect and beautiful thing, but talk is all that he does. He just goes on about the idea and doesn't
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night The Role of the Fool: Feste's Significance In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the Feste's role might originally appear to be as a minor character, but in actuality his role is of principal significance. Because the action of the play occurs during the revelry of the holiday season, the clown is used as a self-contained commentator on the actions of the other characters. Shakespeare's contrast of Feste's true wit (used to act foolish) with the true and unconscious foolishness of others is central to his role's contribution to the play through true insight. Feste's appearance in the play is held off until the fifth scene of act I. In this scene the reader is introduced to the clown through a conversation with Maria. It is in this scene that his contribution to the play is revealed through and aside: "Wit, an't be thy will, put me in good fooling! Those wits that think they have thee, do very oft prove fools, and I that am sure lack thee may pass for a wise man"Ö"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit" (1.5:29-33). These lines indicate that Feste's presence is not merely comic relief through inane acts and show that the role of the fool requires much intelligence. Feste is also able to recognize that self-proclaimed wits are usually not witty at all and it is this lack of self-knowledge that makes them fools. This subject of self-knowledge (or lack thereof) is
How does Shakespeare present the theme of deception in the first two acts of Twelfth night?
How does Shakespeare present the theme of deception in the first two acts of Twelfth night? Shakespeare's Twelfth night, focuses mainly on the theme of deception in both main plot and the sub-plot. Not only do the characters deceive each other, but many of them are also self-deceived and we, as the audience, begin to realise ourselves that we are sometimes deceived. This creates great opportunities for Shakespeare to create humour and dramatic irony, which a Shakespearian audience would understand. Deception also links in with the other key themes of love and disguise. When Shakespeare first introduces Viola, we realise from the main plot that she is the main part of deception. We learn that she is a strong and resourceful character in her situation. We learn that she has lost her brother in a shipwreck and doesn't no if he is dead or alive. A woman would be very vulnerable, at the time the play was written in strange foreign country all alone, so for protection she decides to dress up as a man. We find out that she will call herself Cesario and try to find work, with the duke Orsino. When she states this intention we know that confusion and humour will be involved in the plot of the play. Viola will be deceiving everyone into thinking she's a man but unlike all of the other characters she is not self-deceived. Shakespeare creates a great ironic twist with Violas situation.
How Does Shakespeare Present Aspects of Folly in Twelfth Night
How Does Shakespeare Present Aspects of Folly in Twelfth Night? All or most of Shakespeare's plays contain playfulness and foolishness and within 'Twelfth Night' there are many examples of this. All these examples of folly add to the overall humour of the play. Throughout 'Twelfth Night' the theme of foolishness links the plot, characters and scenes in the play. In Shakespeare's day, people wanted to go to the theatre and be able to laugh. They loved all plays with an element of comedy, even Shakepeare's tragedies have elements of comedy in them. In Romeo and Juliet there are characters seen as crazy or foolish such as Mercutio. First of all there's Malvolio, one of the main characters. Proud and pompous, he is easily ridiculed as he is lead into dreadful humiliation at the hands of Fabian, Maria, Sir Toby, Feste and Sir Andrew. All the formentioned people make Malvolio look foolish when Maria writes a letter to Malvolio expressing her love for him and signing it from Olivia. Malvolio falls into the trap and begins to believe that Olivia is madly in love with him. The letter says: 'Remember who commanded thy yellow stockings and wished to see thee ever cross gartered.' This causes Malvolio to dress in yellow stockings and cross garters to impress and try to woo his lady. On stage this is a very amusing scene to watch as Malvolio comes on wearing this ridiculous outfit --
Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare explores the theme of love throughout 'Twelfth Night'.
Priya Pillai Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare explores the theme of love throughout 'Twelfth Night' In the play 'Twelfth Night' Shakespeare explores and illustrates the emotion of love with precise detail. Throughout the play Shakespeare examines three different types of love, which are, true love, self-love and platonic love. 'Twelfth Night' is a romantic comedy, and romantic love is the play's main theme. In order to comply with the comical genre, Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to entertain the audience. The play consists of many love triangles, however many of the characters that are tangled up in the web of love are blind to see that their emotions and feelings towards other characters are untrue. They are consequently deceiving themselves and others around them. Count Orsino opens the play with a speech beginning; 'If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, That appetite may sicken, and so die.' The first part of his speech introduces the theme of love and is a metaphorical relation of music and love; Orsino relates music to love and over indulgence in music to over-eating, wishing that listening to too much music would kill his desire for love. Shakespeare defines Orsino's character by using iambic pentameter. The iambic pentameter shows control yet the emphasis here is on the instability and intensity of
Foolish Antics in Twelfth Night.
Sam Tuke Foolish Antics in: Twelfth Night A fool can be defined in many meanings according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The word could mean "a silly person", or "one who professionally counterfeits folly for the entertainment of others, a jester, clown" or "one who has little or no reason or intellect" or "one who is made to appear to be a fool". In English literature, the two main ways which the fool could enter imaginative literature is that "He could provide a topic, a theme for mediation, or he could turn into a stock character on the stage, a stylized comic figure". In William Shakespeare's comedy, Twelfth Night, Feste the clown is not the only fool who is subject to foolery. He and many other characters combine their silly acts and wits to invade other characters that "evade reality or rather realize a dream", while "our sympathies go out to those". "It is natural that the fool should be a prominent & attractive figure and make an important contribution to the action" in forming the confusion and the humor in an Elizabethan drama. In Twelfth Night, the clown and the fools are the ones who combine humor & wit to make the comedy work. Clowns, jesters, and Buffoons are usually regarded as fools. Their differences could be of how they dress, act or portrayed in society. A clown for example, "was understood to be a country bumpkin or 'cloun'". In Elizabethan
By considering only one character, discuss the theme of love in Twelfth Night by referring to three scenes to illustrate your points.
G.C.S.E English By considering only one character, discuss the theme of love in Twelfth Night by referring to three scenes to illustrate your points. The genre of romantic comedy in Twelfth Night usually treated the happier aspects of life such as love and marriage; this play makes lavish use of music and singing. The name Twelfth Night is the name given to the night before the Christian feast Epiphany. In the Elizabethan period Christmas celebrations lasted for twelve days and ended with a big party on the Sixth January. The scenario of Twelfth Night is based on falling in love. During the Elizabethan period there were two opposing views of sexual fulfilment. One of the one hand, it was seen as a healthy and natural form of enjoyment, but on the other bestial, although permissible with the bonds of marriage. Another Elizabethan idea of love, that love can be melancholic in the play both Orsino and Olivia are afflicted by their love which gives them pain and causes them to behave irrationally. Olivia is not introduced directly, but by repeated references in the first scenes; the captain remarks of Olivia and Orsino. Maria and Sir Toby furnish us with information, she is more complex than viola,