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Viola. Like most of Shakespeare’s heroines, Viola is a tremendously likable figure. She has no serious faults, and we can easily discount the peculiarity of her decision to dress as a man, since it sets the entire plot in motion. She is the character whose love seems the purest. The other characters’ passions are fickle: Orsino jumps from ...
Scene 1. The play’s final scene opens as Fabian begs Feste to let him see Malvolio’s letter to Olivia. Feste refuses, and the Duke, Viola, Curio, and other lords enter. The Duke and Feste ...
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Jul 31, 2015 · Toggle Contents Act and scene list. Characters in the Play ; Entire Play Twelfth Night—an allusion to the night of festivity preceding the Christian celebration of the Epiphany—combines love, confusion, mistaken identities, and joyful discovery.After the twins Sebastian and Viola survive a shipwreck, neither knows that the other is alive.
Time and Place of Twelfth Night In many of his plays Shakespeare has used a definite period of history or a particular location but in Twelfth Night Shakespeare does not postulate any time or place. Even the area has no more real existence than prosperous Rose Island and no particular time is indicated but the language, beliefs and mannerisms ...
Scene 2. At the beginning of scene 2, Sir Andrew is angry, for he has overheard the exchange between Olivia and Viola and is jealous. Fabian, however, responds that Olivia has really given Sir ...
Olivia. The Duke and ruler of Illyria. At the beginning of the play Orsino is obsessed by his unrequited love for Olivia . However, in the final scene, when Orsino discovers that Cesario is in fact the woman, Viola —and that Olivia has already married Viola's twin brother, Sebastian —he quickly proposes to Viola.
