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    Twelfth Night: Theme of Love In the play "Twelfth Night‚" Shakespeare explores and illustrates the emotion of love with precise detail. According to "Webster’s New World Dictionary‚" love is defined as "a strong affection or liking for someone." Throughout the play Shakespeare examines three different types of love: true love‚ self love and friendship. "Twelfth Night" consists of many love triangles‚ however many of the characters who are tangled up in the web of love are blind to see that their

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    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

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    depiction of love in Twelfth Night. “The course of true love never did run smooth” is one of Shakespeare’s infamous quotes from one of his plays‚ namely‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is a quote that remains timeless throughout the ages and is centered on the theme of love and it explores the hardships associated with being In ‘true love’. Such is the same in Shakespeare’s depiction and presentation of love in another play written by him‚ which will be the main focus‚ Twelfth Night. The quote

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    Love in twelfth night In the play twelfth night‚ Shakespeare covered three types of love : Lust‚ true love and brotherly love. Love is one of the most confusing and most misunderstood emotions that we as humans posses. Love is an extremely diverse emotion which is why it was used as the main topic in twelfth night. Lust‚ which is probably one of the most confusing types of love was an apparent subject in twelfth night.There are many reasons why one would lust‚ one could be because you are

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    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 feelings

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    STUDY Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is studied and his Much Ado About Nothing is used to explore the theme of love. Performances are referred to. Shakespeare’s romantic comedies explore love‚ the “divine passion”‚ in all its moods and intensities. Most characters in these two plays are in love‚ find love or seek it. Twelfth Night‚ reputedly the most mature of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies‚ weaves several such love stories into an intricate collage to explore different types of love and its easy descent

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    time‚ love proves itself over and over how difficult it is to find. In teenagers especially‚ who think everything is figured out‚ and think love is easy‚ but again love proves them wrong‚ which hurts them in the process. In William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy‚ Twelfth Night‚ Orsino demonstrates the theme of unrequited love may hurt‚ but there is someone who loves you even if you don’t see it. Even if someone is hurt‚ they may miss that someone else loves them. Love occurs often in Twelfth Night

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    In the play Twelfth Night‚ Shakespeare illustrates the theme of love with very decisive detail. Love is defined as a “profoundly tender‚ passionate affection for another.” Throughout this play Shakespeare examines three different themes of love‚ such as self-love‚ true love and love in the form of friendship. Twelfth Night consists of many different love triangles throughout the play‚ however many of the characters that are tangled up in this very sticky mess of love are too blind to see that

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    Justin Sundstrom 2/14/13 2nd period Twelfth Night 2. In Twelfth Night a theme of unrealistic love is established‚ with all the different characters. Duke Orsino loves Olivia who loves Viola who really is the main character Viola‚ who has a thing for the Duke. This conflict of lovers is unrealistic‚ and makes for an exciting conflict. This unrealistic chain of events is related to the realistic ideas of people falling in love with a persons personality‚ and also relates that people

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    in which a character keeps or reveals a secret affects the plot and adds to the main theme of the work. Viola‚ a character in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night‚ must keep the secret of her true identity. The play uses secrecy as an important element of the plot by creating irony‚ situational comedy‚ and tension‚ as well as affecting the plot and contributing to the overall meaning of the play. The plot of Twelfth Night is affect by the secret that Viola keeps and reveals. Viola is a lady of Messaline who

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