Compare And Contrast She's The Man And Twelfth Night

She's the Man is a lovely and hilarious comedy filmed in the United States. It was directed in 2002 by Andy Fickman and is based on the play the twelfth night written and composed by William Shakespeare. In the DVD She's the Man the main character, Viola Hastings, disguises herself as a man and takes her brother's place in the boys' soccer team. Her intentions are to prove that girls are capable of doing what boys do and in a way she succeeds to do just that. From Shakespeare (8) the book twelfth night is about Viola, later adopts the name Cesario, who find herself in an island shipwrecked and separated from her twin brother Sebastian. The ship captain then clothes her as a boy so that she would instead serve the Duke. The plot is that of a

Although similar things happen in the movie on many occasions as well, one incident stands out. When the tarantula, Marvolio, Crawls into Viola's room. They characters may be depicted to be similar in many way but they also have differences.

In the DVD She's the Man, Bynes uses a kind of slang that is stereotypic and hardly in use nowadays and might have been easy to identify she was not a man. She plays in even less effectively when Duke shows up and the two of them are sharing a conversation. She forgets her masculine role and is overcome by her desires for him. In the novel by Shakespeare, it happens to the character Cesario many times but unlike Viola by Bynes, she is better at hiding it.

The movie She's the Man shows much of the general idea of the original Shakespearean book, the twelfth night. It also, illustrates the change in feminine roles in the community and society at large, the main theme of the movie being feminism. In Shakespearean era and time, the important, recognizable and powerful positions in the society were taken by men and therefore Viola in the twelfth night disguises herself as a eunuch in order to get close to the Olivia, the countess and the