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   A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor... read full definition. Act 1, scene 1. Explanation and Analysis—Lovesickness:

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   by William Shakespeare. Buy Study Guide. Twelfth Night Summary and Analysis of Act 4. Act IV Summary: Scene 1: Feste approaches Sebastian, thinking that Sebastian is 'Cesario'; when Sebastian tells Feste that he does not know him, nor Olivia, whom Feste tells him to meet, Feste becomes rather upset, and accuses Sebastian of "strangeness".

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   What is a metaphor in Twelfth Night?

   • Characters in Twelfth Night frequently use metaphorical language to talk about love and desire. One especially evocative metaphor that appears more than once throughout the play likens the human heart to a book and the act of loving to the act of reading. To thee the book even of my secret soul.

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   What is Twelfth Night about?

   • Twelfth Night is a play about desire’s power to override conventions of class, religion, and even gender. Several characters begin the play believing they want one thing, only to have love teach them they actually want something else. Orsino thinks he wants Olivia, until he falls in love with Viola (dressed as Cesario.)

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   How is Love Compared to grief in Twelfth Night?

   • In Twelfth Night, both love and grief are compared to illness and associated with an imbalance of the humors. In Act 1, Scene 1, Orsino locates love in the stomach and associates an excess of it with feelings of nausea: Orsino: If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.

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   What are Twelfth Night Literature Essays?

   • Twelfth Night literature essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Twelfth Night. View our essays for Twelfth Night… View the lesson plan for Twelfth Night… The Twelfth Night e-text contains the full text of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.

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   Twelfth Night is a play about desire’s power to override conventions of class, religion, and even gender. Several characters begin the play believing they want one thing, only to have love teach them they actually want something else.

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   A summary of Act I: Scenes i & ii in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Twelfth Night and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.

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   Twelfth Night Metaphors and Similes. Love and Illness. In perhaps the most famous metaphor of the play, Orsino's opening words are, "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). In this metaphor, Orsino equates music with something that "feeds" love.

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   Twelfth Night shows good use of various metaphors. For example, O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother. (Act-I, Scene-I, Lines, 32-33) My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color. (Act-II, Scene-1, Line, 1555) Truly madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave’s end (Act-V, Scene-I, Line, 275)

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   A summary of Act I: Scene v in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Twelfth Night and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.