Love and Twelfth Night
Compare and Contrast the two plays
Paper 2
Provide examples detailed
Monologue – a long speech when all the characters are present on stage
Twelfth Night – Characters who participate in comedy (Viola did grew) – entertainment – to connect to the audience- conditioned
Importance of being Earnest – Attempt to change identity (nobody grows) stereotypes are made fun of
Similar kind of genre
Different endings when other characters find out the secrets
Difference in social class is seen very much in Twelfth Night where women do not marry men who are lower in class than them and in Importance of being Earnest in Act 1, Scene 2, where Lady Bracknell questions Jack as he grew up loosing his parents and his parents were from a low class. Past affected the plot in earnest. In twelfth night, twins separated through the shipwreck.
Twelfth Night – 5 ACTS
Importance of being Earnest – 3 ACTS
Characters – Wilde – comedy of manners- exposes human nature – mocking the flaws of human nature
Shakespeare – Clown was a wise guy – recognized them – to find identity to the audience – part of his understanding of humans
A lot of stage directions (set) in the importance of being earnest when compared to Twelfth Night (1996)
Themes
Appearance versus reality – Both pretending to be earnest, Barbary and Violia)
Twelfth Night – Gender and sexuality (Olivia said that she loves Viola, a female, Shakespeare comments on sexuality)
Importance of Being Earnest – Identity and marriage (Jack discusses his proposed engagement to the Lady Bracknell)
Treatment of love – Lady Bracknell
Love transformed to marriage is smooth in twelfth Night – not deliberate – marriage is conclusion
Love to reach to marriage in earnest obstacles (change their names) deliberate – all about marriage
PLOT
Exposition in Twelfth Night – Orsino’s court
Complication established – Violia chooses to be Cesario
Climax- Marries Sebastian
The importance of being Earnest
Both climax is
Paper 2
Provide examples detailed
Monologue – a long speech when all the characters are present on stage
Twelfth Night – Characters who participate in comedy (Viola did grew) – entertainment – to connect to the audience- conditioned
Importance of being Earnest – Attempt to change identity (nobody grows) stereotypes are made fun of
Similar kind of genre
Different endings when other characters find out the secrets
Difference in social class is seen very much in Twelfth Night where women do not marry men who are lower in class than them and in Importance of being Earnest in Act 1, Scene 2, where Lady Bracknell questions Jack as he grew up loosing his parents and his parents were from a low class. Past affected the plot in earnest. In twelfth night, twins separated through the shipwreck.
Twelfth Night – 5 ACTS
Importance of being Earnest – 3 ACTS
Characters – Wilde – comedy of manners- exposes human nature – mocking the flaws of human nature
Shakespeare – Clown was a wise guy – recognized them – to find identity to the audience – part of his understanding of humans
A lot of stage directions (set) in the importance of being earnest when compared to Twelfth Night (1996)
Themes
Appearance versus reality – Both pretending to be earnest, Barbary and Violia)
Twelfth Night – Gender and sexuality (Olivia said that she loves Viola, a female, Shakespeare comments on sexuality)
Importance of Being Earnest – Identity and marriage (Jack discusses his proposed engagement to the Lady Bracknell)
Treatment of love – Lady Bracknell
Love transformed to marriage is smooth in twelfth Night – not deliberate – marriage is conclusion
Love to reach to marriage in earnest obstacles (change their names) deliberate – all about marriage
PLOT
Exposition in Twelfth Night – Orsino’s court
Complication established – Violia chooses to be Cesario
Climax- Marries Sebastian
The importance of being Earnest
Both climax is