December 5th, 2016
Illyria News Today:
Two commoners have lovestruck nobles
Ke’André Odle-Clarke:
Entertainment
Illyria-- This morning, two commoners have just married some of the highest nobles in Illyria. The two commoners were siblings who got lost at sea, and went through hell and back to find each other.
These twins names are Sebastian and Viola, and they married the Duke Orsini and the Countess Olivia. In the past Orsino has displayed affection for Olivia. Since Olivia’s brother recently died, she was in mourning for 7 years. That's not it before these people got married they went through a whole complicated love triangle that had all sorts of ups and downs.
This all started when the Duke declared his love to Olivia in the form of a poem. “If music be the food of love give me excess of it” (Act.1 Scene.1) This is when Orsino found out his new love for the countess. Shortly after we find out that Olivia can't marry anyone because she must mourn for 7 years over her brother's death. While on the cost of Illyria Viola finds out her brother might still be alive and embarks on a dangerous journey to find him. In this journey Viola was pretending to be a man named Cesario, she was hired as the Duke messenger.
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Cesario accidentally made Olivia fall in love with his outside appearance.” She loves me, sure! The cunning of her passion”(Act.2 Scene.2) Which was completely against Viola’s plan, to make things worse Sebastian came to Illyria. Since he looked exactly like Cesario, Olivia didn't realize that she proposed to the wrong person“If you mean well, now go with me and with this holy man”(Act.4, scene.3) It all worked out after all, the Duke was okay with Olivia marrying Sebastian because he got to marry Viola whose beauty pars with that of
During the weeks leading up to matrimony, Olivia fell madly in love with Cesario, who though looks and sounds just like Sebastian, is truly Viola dressed as a man. Sebastian does not realize this as he meets Olivia for the first time. He is amazed that a woman of her statue and beauty would feel so strong for him and he wastes no time.... ... middle of paper ...
Complications also arose when viola fell in love with her master, duke orsino, while at the same time had the love interest of orsino, the countess Olivia, trying to woo her. This placed viola in an extremely difficult and complex situation on one hand, she loved the duke and would have liked to do all she could to win his heart. But because she was his servant, she was obliged to serve him and help him win the hand of Olivia. What was a poor girl to do ?
Orsino’s world is like the nonfictional world; it is reality that makes no allowances for personal happiness. Yet, Orsino holds onto the dreams of fantasy, believing that they can pass into reality. Though a romantic at heart, he never forgets other important matters. He attends to Antonio’s imprisonment as the ruler he is, maintaining law and order. At Malvolio’s last lines, Orsino is the one to make allowances for the man, saying “Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace” (TN, V, I, 380). Despite his strong sensibilities, Orsino still manages to love the arts, calling music “the food of love,” sighing wistfully as lovers do and passing time dreaming of a fantasy life of marrying Olivia that is out of reach for him (TN, I, I, i). Perhaps in another play, Orsino would earn the love of his lady. He can speak beautifully, he is kind, of good standing, shares musical and comedic tastes with Olivia, and loves her passionately. Yet, the rules that govern both his world and ours, the sobriety of realism, do not ensure that things work out the way that one would hope. Olivia’s household is the common setting for all comedic plays, a land of unlikely possibilities; Orsino’s household is the audience itself, stuck in a reality where things are not as interesting or entertaining, and where happy endings seem farther out of
Viola disguises herself as Cesario, a male eunuch, and goes to work for the Duke Orsino. Unaware that Cesario is not what he seems, the Duke Orsino becomes very friendly with Cesario after just three of having known each other. Unsuccessful in his pursuit of Olivia, Orsino sends Cesario to gain her affection for him because he thinks she will be taken in by Cesario's youth. Viola, dressed as Cesario, falls in love with the duke Orsino but ... ... middle of paper ... ...was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day' There are other songs sung by Feste which reveal a darker side to the plot such as songs with lines: 'Come away, come away death, And in sad cypress let me be laid'.
to get involved in a scuffle, for which Viola is unjustly blamed. Finally Sebastian and Viola are reunited, but only after they have already caused a large amount of chaos and confused everyone. It is only then that everyone begins to discover the extent of Viola's trickery. More disorder is created when Olivia, who Orsino is hopelessly in love with. with, falls for Cesario, who is secretly in love with Orsino.
To finish the last 2 lines 966 and 967 the actor must act comforted because of Viola's realization that she will not be obligated to solve this love triangle issue. In addition, the costume will be a brown sports coat with a blue dress shirt underneath, black tights and elegant boots in view of the fact that the setting of this play is the 1600s when men wore elegant dress clothes. Also, the background is a picture of a pathway, with grass on each side and mountains in the distance, considering that Viola has just left Olivia’s house and is on her way back to Orsino's palace and it seems to be a rural community, in the play, where you must walk very far to reach different areas of Illyria, it also appears, in the script, that the Duke's palace stood surrounded by mountains. In addition, the intro music is a tiny clip of an instrumental piano version of Reflection from the movie Mulan, due to, the fact, that the atmosphere makes it seems like it's leading up to a significant disclosure which is Olivia's love for Viola as Cesario but the music is still felicitous since it is not terrible that Olivia loves Cesario instead for Viola and the audience it's
As prescient and insightful as this evaluation may seem after considering the outcome of Twelfth Night’s romantic pairings, it reads as a very shallow perspective rather than any sort of wisdom – to the Duke, love is never permanent, lasting, or constant (just like the nature of the tides, it always changes). Duke Orsino has no concern whatsoever for Olivia’s feelings of grief after the loss of her brother – she is merely an object of his desires at the moment, and as his eventual courtship with Viola proves, he is extremely fickle in his affections. (Even before Viola’s disguise became apparent, Orsino showed some signs of attraction to the male Cesario – this raises a few questions about exactly how far his romantic indecisiveness
Viola, as Cesario, manages to win the favour of Orsino He truly believes that she is a he. Orsino, still convinced of my majesty, believes that he can win the love of a woman, via a proxy. By having Viola merely read the words he has prepared, he thinks that Olivia will fall immediately in love with him. But while Orsino had his head in the clouds about his love, Viola is attempting to conceal from him, her love for him.
We see this exaggerated one-sided love play out in many forms throughout the play. Viola, for example, says in this line, “I’ll do my best To woo your lady: Aside. Yet a barful strife! Whoe 'er I woo, myself would be his wife.” (1.4.44-46) This tells us that Viola, having just met Orsino a few days ago, has a desire to be wed to Orsino. This kind of desire that Viola has for Orsino can only be conjured up from a fairytale due to the sheer passion and irrationality of falling in love with an acquaintance. Shakespeare also uses diction in deceptive forms. This is evident when Orsino uses the word “violets” (1.1.6) in his speech and to display the deception that is played out in the play. The word “violets” comes from the comes from the latin word viola. Some readers would be deceived, as many might not even notice the hint that Orsino gives in his own speech. We know this deception to be true in the form of Viola when she disguises herself as a eunuch to Orsino in his own courts as evidence in this line, “For such disguise as haply shall become The form of my intent. I 'll serve this duke: Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him”
Twelfth Night consists of a large number of love triangles, however many characters are too indulged in love that they are blind to the untrue, and the weakness of their relationship, they are deceived by themselves and many people around them ( ex. Malvolio is tricked by Sir Andrew, Feste ,Sir Toby and Maria),but there are certain incidents where the love is true and two characters feel very strongly about one another. In the play, Viola and Orsino have the most significant relationship. The way they interact with each other causes the complexity on which the play is all about, their relationship turns from strangers to friends then lovers .In the First Act Viola is not honest with Orsino because she disguises herself as a male servant named Cesario in order to get closer to the duke. Orsino. Orsino quickly trusts Cesario and sends him to Olivia to declare Orsinos Love for her, the girl he most dearly loves. This quick bond is the fast example of their relationship. At the beginning of the play, Viola thinks her brother (Sebastian) is dead (after they’re deadly boat crash, where they get separated) when actually he is alive and thinks she is dead, Viola always seems to have a part missing from her which shows her bond with Sebastian is strong, and a part of her but in a brotherly/sisterly way rather than a proper relationship like viola and orsino, At the end of the play they meet and both fall in love , Viola with Orsino and Sebastian with Olivia.
Viola, alone in a strange land, disguises herself as a man in order to gain access to Duke Orsino's palace. She plays the role of Orsino's servant, Cesario, to be near him for she knows that he is the man who can help her in Illyria. On first hearing Orsino's name, Viola says: "Orsino! I have heard my father name him: He was a bachelor then." This reaction suggests that Viola already respects Orsino as a ruler before she begins to love him.
What happens to Olivia’s desire for Cesario at the conclusion of the play? Despite having been in love with Cesario for most of the play, she lets it go and is content to be wed to Sebastian. Does her desire for young, feminine Cesario vanish when she marries Sebastian? She originally thought that she had in fact, married Cesario. She announces to her court and Orsino’s, much to
Viola/Ceasario's disguise hides most of her past: the shipwreck, her lost brother, and the fact that she is a woman. Her identity now as a man, is to move on in life and get a job. Her love for Orsino is hidden with her original identity, as though she works for him as his servant. She is a very strong character in the play. "I prithee (and I’ll pay thee bounteously)/ Conceal me what I am, and be my aid/ For such disguise as haply shall become/ The form of my intent. I’ll serve this duke." (1.2.52-55). After the shipwreck and the loss of her brother, Viola decides to move on using a disguise as her shield. Viola’s secret love for Orsino is different than the way Olivia loves Ceasario. Olivia is in lo...
The opening soliloquy of Act I Scene I, given by Duke Orsino, is another perfect example of Shakespeare using music to show the upcoming storyline of the play. At first, Orsino is using music as a metaphor that feeds the appetite of love. He speaks for a minute about his love for the music playing, and then changes abruptly by saying, “Enough; no more” (7). Already Shakespeare is foreshadowing Orsino’s fickleness when it comes to music which in turn stands for love. Of course, further into the play, it is shown that Orsino truly is fickle when it comes to love. As soon as he finds out that Cesario is in fact the woman Viola, he instantly forgets all the passion he had for Olivia and marries Viola.
Throughout Twelfth Night, disguise and mistaken identity works as a catalyst for confusion and disorder which consistently contributes towards the dramatic comic genre of the play. Many characters in Twelfth Night assume disguises, beginning with Viola, who disguises herself as a man in order to serve Orsino, the Duke. By dressing his protagonist in male garments, Shakespeare creates ongoing sexual confusion with characters, which include Olivia, Viola and Orsino, who create a ‘love triangle’ between them. Implicitly, there is homoerotic subtext here: Olivia is in love with a woman, despite believing her to be a man, and Orsino often comments on Cesario’s beauty, which implies that he is attracted to Viola even before her male disguise is removed. However, even subsequent to the revealing of Viola’s true identity, Orsino’s declares his love to Viola implying that he enjoys lengthening the pretence of Vio...