The overall ending of Twelfth Night is subversive‚ from Malvolio’s uncomfortable promises of revenge to Viola still in her Cesario attire after the grand unveiling of her identity. Feste’s song highlights these ambiguities: it is the only epilogue song with the exception of Love’s Labours Lost which is not celebratory (the latter being overshadowed by death). Feste’s lyrics emphasise the uselessness of material possessions when faced with the onslaught of time‚ and comes directly after Orsino’s professed
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Man Behind the Costume: Feste the Fool A fool‚ is defined as a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person. In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night ‚ Feste‚ the fool‚ plays an important role in the play. Aside from adding humour to the play‚ Feste has shown on more than one occasion the true personalities of characters‚ which helps the reader further understand the play and characters. Feste in some ways is also deceiving and though he was not seen making profound remarks‚ F
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reveals the theme of illusion and reality through Othello’s illusions that his loving‚ caring‚ honest wife has committed adultery. These illusions are created by jealous Iago who plants seeds of uncertainty and doubt into Othello’s mind and turns his world upside down. Othello’s fall comes partly because he can’t distinguish between the illusions created by Iago and reality‚ which is that Desdemona loves him and has been loyal to him as well as the reality of Iago’s true nature. The illusion created
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The sub-plot of Twelfth Night‚ the gulling of Malvolio by Sir Toby Belch‚ Maria‚ Feste‚ and Aguecheek‚ is justly famous as one of Shakespeare’s funniest experiments in New Comedy‚ that is‚ in a style of comedy which is basically quite different from the pastoral romantic style of the main plot. The basis for the sub-plot is one of the oldest and most popular subjects for New Comedy - the unmasking of the hypocrite‚ a satiric exposure of apparent virtue so as to humiliate the hypocrite and make him
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ELIT 351 Final Exam Project The love in Twelfth Night The love in Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night is a mixture of miscellaneous emotions some of them derived from the events in the plot pf the play and others are caused by the nature of the characters and their inner worlds. This different compound of feelings such as desire‚ affection‚ madness and disguise naturally present such an extraordinary web of love in the play. Each major character in the play experience the love that includes these
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Twelfth Night: Which is more engaging – the main plot or the sub-plot? Shakespeare’s comedy “Twelfth Night‚” is considered the last of the true comedies‚ his final light-hearted play before the venture into the darker‚ more sombre tragedies. As with many of his comedies‚ the basis of the story is the two intertwined love plots‚ which are sometimes separate‚ and occasionally come together and directly affect each other. This considered‚ questions have been raised as to whether it should be classed
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Illusion vs. Reality A universal theme found in Fahrenheit 451‚ The Truman Show‚ and Plato’s Republic is we accept the reality with which we are presented. The characters portrayed this theme through perceived reality vs. actuality‚ knowledge is power‚ and knowledge can only be gained if it is presented to it first. In all three‚ there are people without knowledge and people with knowledge. The people that don’t have knowledge are the general public‚ Truman‚ and the prisoners; the people with
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Shakespeare was a man that established his name in history books as a great writer. One of Shakespeare’s many sparks of innovative genius which laminated these pages was his use of masks. Masks are used throughout Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” as a character would choose to wear their selected mask to fit in to the particular situation. Shakespeare uses this imagery of a mask in many of the characters in his play‚ but mostly in two: Viola and Feste. These masks are used throughout
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In Twelfth Night there are many disguises five of which are found in Act One alone. These disguises are played by the characters of Orcino‚ Viola‚ Sir Toby‚ Olivia and Malvolio. Eash and every disguise functions on its own way in the plot development. the first disguise is that of Orsion’s. He is the wealthy Duke who has become love sick over Olivia. He says‚ ’If music be the food of love‚ play on.’ He is the supposingly most deep or poetic lover . Despite this strong love he seems to be more in
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Critique on Twelfth Night- Trevor Nunn/ Shakespeare In this essay I will be reviewing two versions of the famous play ’Twelfth Night’ and comparing the differences and similarities of them. Originally‚ it was written by William Shakespeare in around 1601-2 but a more recent version of this play was turned into a movie‚ directed and written by Trevor Nunn these are the two versions that will be reviewed. Many aspects from the original are kept the same in Trevor Nunn’s film however there are
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