Twelfth Night Irony

This is about the idea of humor and irony to contradict and shape stories, then goes further in depth with how Shakespeare uses this in Twelfth Night. Ulrici mentions how comedy forms external nature and intrinsic fancifulness. Then he acknowledges the sudden change in comicalness and uses this as his argument that humor shapes external and intrinsic issues. Ulrici add details from the story to support his claims. He also compares the crossing of caprice, folly, error and perversity to a web that causes the subject caprice to be paralyze and be paralyzed by objective chance. Ulrici also adds to the essay later in that the web was carefully spun by Shakespeare that the characters harmonize so well that if there was any change then the it would

‘tear’ the web. Ulrici also formulates the point that love in this play is capricious, is sudden and changes often. The organization of essay is a main thesis that humor shapes the entirety of the play and he goes on to explain who and how it did. He doesn’t specifically state scene or acts but the actions of the characters This work is reliable because the author, Hermann Ulrici, is a German Scholar. It was definitely easy to understand and he made clear points with good reasoning for every statement. The organization of his arguments and reasoning made it easy to comprehend and not have to find it somewhere different in the essay. I would recommend this to other students who want to know how humor shaped some of Shakespeare’s plays.