love and disguises in the twelth night
Love and Disguises in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night The Twelfth Night is one of William Shakespeare's more prolific plays about love and the absurdity that follows it. He taunts his audience of what every man goes through in life. He shows how entertaining we are when we are in the throes of love, or at least when we think we are. Shakespeare questions the validity of the emotion love. He shows the immaturity of love, and how people are blinded of love. In the Twelfth Night, he puts his characters in a myriad of disguises, physically and psychologically. Shakespeare uses the device of disguises to show the different kinds of love; erotic, fraternal and friendship in the Twelfth Night. Erotic love shows the fickleness and false appearances in the characters. The characters put on disguises and acts, to get what they think that they want. Their reasons for erotic love are even false. Shakespeare shows the reasons for their choices; appearances of their own, vanity, and egotism. Shakespeare introduces the notion of love with the fickle character, Duke Orsino, who in the introductory scene reveals his fickleness. He says, " If music be the food of love, play on/ Give me excess of it; that surfeiting/ That strain again it had a dyin
Antonio recognizes the twins and says to Sebastian, " How have you made a division of yourself? An apple cleft in two is no twin/ than these two creatures. While Lady Olivia is outwardly grieving the death of her brother, Viola is trying to piece back a life in a strange city as a man. After the revealing of Viola, he is quick and ready to take her as a woman even though he still thinks of her as Cesario. She is marrying somebody by appearances alone. In Act 5, they reunite after everyone reveals their true identities. Vanity is also a reason for the immaturity of erotic love. His fickleness roars its head when he accepts the Viola dressed up as a man, whom she/he calls himself "Cesario". She does not care to know the real Cesario. In the Twelfth Night, Maria and Sir. Shakespeare shows Orsino's homo erotic tendencies.
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