How Does Shakespeare Present Love In Twelfth Night

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Love and Marriage in Twelfth Night

In the comedy Twelfth Night, Shakespeare embellish love in many different forms and advocates, like beauty, true meaning of love exists in the eye of beholder. Love is discern as a circle of insanity, a jokey game of ever changing love or tenderness and the cause of the strange behavior. throughout the characters of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare explores love as an obsession, an exaggeration of the mind, and a normal stander form of love. Each kind of love loss capitulate different outcome and their results are as unknown as the true meaning of love itself. A few characters in the play are faithful to love, meanwhile the rest are worried about the small idea of it. in the beginning of the play, it starts …show more content…

That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank, stealing and giving odour ! Enough ; no more : 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love ! How quick and fresh art thou, that, notwithstanding they capacity Receiveth as the sea, nough enters there, of what validity and pitch soe'er , but falls into abatement and low price, even in a minute : so full of shapes in fancy that it alone high fantastical ( Duke Orsino, 1.1, shamoop)." It is clear from this quote that Duke Orsino loves the concept of being in love. Dukes feelings of love toward olivia are so extreme that he appears overwhelmed by the …show more content…

She is disguising herself as her brother, Sebastian, who she thought had died during the shipwreck. she has named herself Cesario. Due to the fact that she is an unknown man from Illyria she can never tell her master and close friend , Duke Orsino about how she really feels about him. But as good friends she got the chance to know Orsino more about his life, and about what he likes and dislikes , and who he loves. Come to find out she knows that he is in love with Olivia only because she's wealthy and beautiful. Viola feels some type of guilt , because she knows that Olivia is in love with her disguise

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