Twelfth Night
In William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night the main characters of the play are continuously searching for love. At the commencement of the play, a perplexing love affair begins to unfold. With Duke Orsino in love with Lady Olivia, Olivia in love with Cesario who is actually a woman, and Viola completing the circuitous affair through her love for Orsino, an intricate triangle begins to form. Sebastian later takes the place of the feigned Cesario and helps to mend the disorderly combination. As the play develops, so do the personalities of the main characters causing the menage a trois to transform into two loving couples. Due to the initial motives of the characters, deception in conjunction with development, and the revelation of truth, each of the main characters ends up with someone other than the person that they initially "loved". At the beginning of the play, Orsino begins by saying, "If music be the food of love, play on;/ Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken and so die"(1.1.1-3). Through saying this, Orsino reveals his premature motive for love and implies that he is a man in love with love itself. After this incident, along comes Viola having just narrowly escaped a shipwreck. S
The love that Olivia acquires for Viola is less due to circumstance and more to a lack of realism and maturity. Olivia is first introduced to Viola and before the end of the scene (1. 5) she is already in love with her. Her false love is made more apparent after Viola leaves and Olivia is by herself, "Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind./ Fate, show the force. Ourselves we do not owe;/ What is decreed must be, and be this so" (1.5.304-306). Olivia experiences "love at first sight" and rashly and abruptly accepts it. In relationship to the fluttery love that Olivia attains for Viola, Sebastian also acquires a relatively similar attraction towards Olivia. "What relish is in this? How runs the stream?/ Or I am mad, or else this is a dream./ Let fancy still my sense in Lethe sleep;/ If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!" (4.2.59-62). Sebastian happened to encounter a lady that was too good to be true, as if it were out of a dream and he decided to hold on to it! he was in a land foreign to her, under the impression that her twin brother Sebastian had drowned, and was an unattended woman by herself facing the large possibility of being taken advantage of. Viola needed protection and Duke Orsino could offer that. I'll prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously, Olivia, Viola, and Sebastian. The relationships that were attempted at initially provided each person with more knowledge and experience. Accordingly, each one of the characters was able to learn more about themselves and learn more about with whom they wanted to be. Although the motives of the characters, deception, development, and revelation of truth did not provide a solution for any of the people in the play, it allowed for certain conve
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