Viola finds herself shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria. William Shakespeare, the author of Twelfth Night, explores and shows the emotion of love in detail. Shakespeare has also created a romantic comedy about three persistent characters that are trapped in a love triangle that seems continuous. One of the main characters is no other than virtuous Viola. During the play, Viola displays her intelligence as she is the first one to discover about the love triangle and is able to understand almost everything brought to her. As the play develops, Viola shows how well-spoken she is by the words that she uses to express herself and by using certain terms to impress even the highest level of class. In addition, maybe Viola's best character trait of all is her decency towards others as she demonstrates this throughout the play.
             As the play unfolds, Viola presents herself to others as being a very clever and quick-witted person. Viola's intelligence is present early on in the play as she, along with the help of the Sea Captain, decides to come up with a plan to disguise her as a man. This proves how intelligent she is since she is able to fool everyone with her disguise throughout the play. A fool is considered a very intelligent person since they have to carefully observe who they plan to play a prank on and understand that person's background. Viola's intelligence is also seen when she is introduced with the fool for the first time. Viola asks the fool, "Where do you live?" The fool the tells Viola that he lives by the church but what he really means is that his house is next to the church. Viola's intelligence becomes clearly present as she shows an understanding of what the fool's statement really means by answering in an equally witty manner. Her intelligence in understanding the fool's words is evident when she replies, "So thou mayst say the king lies by a beggar if a beggar dwell nea...