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    Twelfth Night Essay. Life is not fair‚ the characters in Twelfth Night‚ a play wrote by William Shakespeare‚ generally speaking‚ do not get what they deserve. Some of the characters get too much. And it’s unfair to the others‚ and some get too little. Most of the iniquity happens with the second category. When characters get too little of what they deserve. This essay is going to explain how the characters were cheated out and what they actually deserved. At the end of the story‚ Olivia got too

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    Twelfth Night 1 ) Characters Sir Andrew Aguecheek is very similar to very modern day sitcom males. He would be portrayed as slow and hard to understand. If he was the clown at work and in an office scenario he would be the one that would get blamed for the bad things happening around the office. Sebastian would be a character that always gets in trouble. Trouble follows him everywhere he goes. But‚ in the end things always work out. He goes with the flow and doesn’t get too worked up. Malvolio

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    Twelfth Night Essay In the play of Twelfth Night‚ William Shakespeare shows us many themes. One of them is about the nature of love. He displays this with three types of love: love of self‚ using the character Malvolio‚ unselfish love‚ using the character Antonio‚ and unrequited love‚ using the character Orsino. Each of which is expressed by different characters in different ways. In today’s society‚ many people love themselves more than anything else. Shakespeare shows this issue in Twelfth

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    Witty‚ dark and humorous‚ Twelfth Night is a comedy written by Shakespeare and published in 1623. Shakespeare explores love and deception throughout the play‚ using dramatic irony and imagery to convey the themes. He presents unique characters including viola and Orsino. Twelfth night is an entertaining and humorous play with dark undertones. Romantic love is a key aspect of the twelfth night. Many characters seem to view love as a curse. Olivia describes love as a “plague” from which she suffers

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    30-40) establishes the gender confusion which is to become increasingly important to the plot’s comic complications. Feste’s punning begins the scene‚ and he shows how‚ as in Act 1 Scene 5‚ ‘foolery’ can have a serious satiric purpose. He equates fools and husbands (lines 31-4) and also makes a comment about Jove sending the clean-cut young Cesario ‘a beard’ (line 44)‚ a pointed observation sometimes taken to indicate that he knows the truth of the disguise. Feste sums up his role as ‘corrupter of

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    Ignorance The play Twelfth Night encapsulates what it meant to be a man and women throughout the 16th century. The roles of each gender were set in stone‚ and one could not publicly cross over under any circumstances. During Shakespearean times women were not even allowed to portray themselves on stage‚ men played their roles instead. In my opinion Shakespeare uses the play to show the hypocrisy of the status quo that held people from expressing their true identity. Twelfth Night demonstrates that

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    ‘At the end of Shakespeare’s comedic plays all complications and disorders are resolved and a new order is generated to the satisfaction of the audience.’ to what extent is this true of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night? It is easily argued that Shakespeare’s comedic plays have a similar‚ formulaic‚ structure. Dr Schwartz from the California Polytechnic State University argues that the ‘action of a comedy traces a movement from conflict to the resolution of conflict’. There are many disorders and complications

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    detailed Monologue – a long speech when all the characters are present on stage Twelfth NightCharacters 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

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    appearance or statement. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night tells the story of a shipwreck survivor Viola‚ who disguises herself as her brother for a job on the Duke’s estate. Similarly‚ Some Like it Hot tells the story of two musicians Larry and Joe‚ who dress as women to join an all women’s jazz band‚ in order to escape their neighborhood mob. The theme of deception through appearance can apply to Some Like it Hot‚ which is a natural descendant of Twelfth Night. Through the many forms of deception

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    NUC #: 20103674 COURSE: ENGLISH 121 LECTURER: MR TEMBO ASSIGNMENT: Discuss the role and effect of disguise and mistaken identity in Twelfth Night. How does Shakespeare use these to advance his plot? DUE DATE: 17 JUNE 2011 Before explicating how Shakespeare utilised disguise and mistaken identity in Twelfth Night to develop his plot‚ it is important to understand the meaning of Twelfth Night. In the eastern most part of Canada is a province called Newfoundland and Labrador‚ a long

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