Twelfth Night

A detailed Summary of Twelfth Night

In William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, many

relationships are faked or destroyed for and by the

protagonists, and as a result some of the relationships

are humorous. The use of disguise causes deception and

misunderstanding which leads to love where it is not

meant to be. Trickery leads the characters into

inescapable traps, which causes chaos with their

emotions, and finally pure physical attraction and not

true love lead some characters into falsely believing

that they were in love. How disguise encompasses the

themes of appearance, reality, and mistaken identity in

Twelfth Night will be explained in the next paragraph.

Throughout Twelfth Night deception caused confusion

between many characters, but the one character who

remained in the center of this confusion was Viola. The

deception was caused because of her outward appearance.

She was disguised as a man in order to avoid danger and

explain to the officers that he was protecting him all

lets her know. When Viola realizes what has happened she

along. When Viola claims that she has never seen him. He

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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