Twelfth Night Deception Essay

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Draft 1: (Twelfth Night)
Introduction:
Survival deception
Malicious deception
Self-deception

All these three things are found in Williams Shakespeare play, ‘Twelfth Night’ and they make up the most prominent theme of the play which is deception. The characters in this play all use deception for a motive. Viola uses survival deception to disguise herself as a man, Maria uses malicious deception to write a letter to Malvolio to trick him. These unfaithful acts of deception in the play lead to confusion and many characters to become victims of self-deception.

Body 1: (Deception - Viola)
The first form of deception found in the play is done by the character Viola. This deception helps overall describe the idea that appearances do not always …show more content…

Many characters are victims of self-deception throughout the play. A character that get inflicted by deception in the play is Sir Andrew.

Firstly, foolish Sir Andrew gets deceive into thinking that his faithful friend, Sir Toby is a great friend to him - when he isn’t. Sir Toby tricks Sir Andrew into staying longer and believing that he still has a chance with his Niece Olivia and that she loves him - when he doesn’t. “She’ll none o' the count. She’ll not match above her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit. I have heard her swear ’t. Tut, there’s life in ’t, man.”

Sir Toby only wants Sir Andrew to stay so that he can get money out of him and to be a form of exploitation. In addition to this exploitation, Sir Toby makes Sir Andrew a form of amusement. Sir Toby tells Sir Andrew that Olivia loves him but will only love him if he proves it by dueling and defeating Cesario “This was a great argument of love in her towards you”.

When Sir Andrew and Cesario duel, who pushed the two characters to duel? Sir Toby. Who seems to be the only person involved in the duel that was enjoying it? Sir Toby. Who believed the duel was a great idea for all? Sir Toby. In this sense, Sir Toby is a bully to Sir Andrew to amuse himself for the better

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