12th Night Explication

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I left no ring with her. What means this lady?

Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her!

She made good view of me, indeed so much

That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,

For she did speak in starts distractedly.

She loves me, sure! The cunning Twelfth Night Explication

Invites me in this churlish messenger.

None of my lord's ring? Why, he sent her none.

Poor lady! She were better love a dream.

Disguise, I see, though art a wickedness

Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.

How easy is it for the proper false

In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!

Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,

For such as we are made of, such we be.

How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly.

And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;

And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.

What will become of this? As I am man,

My state is desperate for my master's love.

What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!

O time, thou must untangle this, not I;

It is too hard a not for me t' untie.

Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" is a comedy of mixed signals and romance. Viola is the character who is at the very h

Viola was sent by her master Orsino to woo the lovely Mistress Olivia. Viola approaches her charge with all of the confidence and character of the man she has become. It seems that Cesario possesses a charming wit and a handsome appearance, as he makes quite an impression on Olivia. Viola only realizes this when Malvolio runs after her with a ring claiming that Viola (or rather Cesario, he thinks) brought it to Olivia from Orsino, and that Olivia will have none of it. Viola is at first baffled by the appearance of this ring and by the so obviously false story that accompanies the ring. Her bafflement soon turns to astonishment as she begins to realize Olivia's true intentions by sending the ring after her. It is at this point that Viola discovers the full power of her well-acted disguise and finds herself in the depths of a situation that she has created.

It is the voice of reason that originally leads Viola to Orsino. She knows that as a woman, she has much less chance of gaining a position of economic and social advantage in a foreign land. So she approaches Orsino as a gentleman, and becomes his humble servant. She is aware that, "as I am man, my state is desperate for my master's love" (II, ii, 37). As long as she remains a well-liked male servant to Orsino, her future prospects look good. If he were to find out her true stature, she fears that her value as a human being would become greatly diminished in the eyes of others. But as well as she carries herself as a gentleman, she cannot fully suppress her feminine emotions. Referring to both Olivia and herself, she exclaims, "how easy is it for the proper false in women's waxen hearts to set their forms" (II, ii, 29). This reveals how rapidly she is discovering first-hand the dept

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Approximate Word count = 1178
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English