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Sebastian is noble and capable of strong, deeply felt emotion, just like his sister. The constant powerful love he shows while grieving and when reunited with Viola contrasts Orsino's and Olivia's relatively frivolous emotions. He is also the only major character in the play who never engages in deception.
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 ...
Jul 31, 2015 · 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. Viola goes into service with Count ...
Viola/Cesario. Viola is a young woman from a noble background, and the twin sister of Sebastian, who finds herself shipwrecked on the island of Illyria. She is cunning and independent, disguising herself as the male Cesario to gain employment in Count Orsino’s court. There, she uses her shrewdness and eloquence to gain Orsino’s trust.
Olivia falls in love with Cesario, not realising that Cesario is Viola in disguise. Viola is in love with Orsino, who is in love with Olivia. When Olivia realises that she has married Sebastian, who is Viola’s twin brother, she seems happy to accept the situation and Viola is relieved that she no longer has to lie.
Twelfth Night is a holiday that occurs on January 6, which is the festival of Epiphany and the last day of the twelve days of Christmas. During Shakespeare's time, Twelfth Night marked the end of ...
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