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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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   See in text (Act I - Scene I) When asked if he will go on a hunt for a “hart” (a male deer), Orsino puns on the word “hart” by giving it a double meaning in order to employ a metaphor for his love of Olivia: he is both the hunter and the hunted; he is the hart pursued by his desire for Olivia.

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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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   • 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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   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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   Get everything you need to know about Metaphor in Twelfth Night. Analysis, related characters, quotes, themes, and symbols.

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   The best study guide to Twelfth Night on the planet, from the creators of SparkNotes. Get the summaries, analysis, and quotes you need.

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   The Fool- Feste represents the contradictory nature of the play. Though he is the fool, he has an incredible wit, and shows that things are not always as they seem. Twelfth Night- The name of the play is a holiday in which things are said to be turned upside down. Because of the nature of the plot of the play, this seems fitting.

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   Twelfth Night: Examining the Text. Shakespeare uses figurative language as he speaks with metaphors, similes, and personification. Recognizing when his characters are speaking figuratively helps in understanding the play. A metaphor is the application of a word or phrase to somebody or something that is not meant literally but to make a comparison.

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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.