How Does Shakespeare Present Love In Twelfth Night

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

with one character, Duke Orsino who is insanely in love with Olivia. After numerous refusals from Olivia, Duke Orsino said that he would like to fall in love and be so much full of it, that it will demolish his sense of taste endlessly. He said " if music be food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

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

impression and thinking of her. " Oh, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purged the air of pestilence. hat instant was i turned into a hart, and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E'er since pursue me ( 1.1.20-24)." Olivias beauty and wealth are one of the main reasons that Duke Orsino is drawn by. He feels by marrying Olivia she will provide him with happens and joy, which makes it seem that he does not know Olivia personality. His love for Olivia slowly fades as the play continues, other than her physical appearance and wealth Orsino has noth else in falling in love with her.
Viola in the other hand finds herself in love with her master, Duke Orsino , who happened to become really close to him.

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

Cesario.
Olivia has been in love with Cesario ever since she first meet him , she believes that Cesario is the right man for her. His bravery, good looking and intelligence wins her heart, but doesn't really know that cesario the person she's madly in love with is really a woman.
once Duke Orsino finds out that Cesario real identity as a woman and that her real name is Viola, he immediately changes his view and thinking of love. Not because he had any feelings toward men, but the fact that became close to her as a guy and knows her for who she is , her personality is what made him fall in loves with her unlike the love he had for Olivia. Orsino didn't mind Viola staying in her man attire during the play , he said it makes no difference to him and said he will continue to call her Casario untill she dresses as a women than he will call her by real name " Viola" . " Cesario, comes ; for you shall be, while you are man but when in other habits you are seen Orison's mistress, and his fancy's queen ! ."
After everyone has suffered from the triangle love, it all came to marriage Viola and Duke Orsino got married by true love. Olivia and Violas twin brother Sebastian got married. Sir Toby who is Olivia's uncle married Maria the house maid. Everyone had a happily ever ending.