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Changes of Clothing. Clothes are powerful in Twelfth Night. They can symbolize changes in gender—Viola puts on male clothes to be taken for a male— as well as class distinctions. When Malvolio fantasizes about becoming a nobleman, he imagines the new clothes that he will have. When Feste impersonates Sir Topas, he puts on a nobleman’s ...
Hallucination. At different points in the play, characters speak of having hallucinations and compare the feeling of being in love to hallucinating. By connecting love with hallucinations, Shakespeare stresses that love is often based on misperceptions… read analysis of Hallucination.
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The Twelfth Night quotes below all refer to the symbol of Costumes. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). Act 1, scene 5 Quotes. He is very well-favored and he speaks very shrewishly; one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
Viola, disguised as Cesario, meets O. Sir Toby and Maria are married. Discuss Viola's use of her disguise in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. After the shipwreck, Viola resolves to make the best of her situation and be taken into Orsino's service. As a young eunuch named Cesario, she will be safe from male attentions.
Jewelry. In Twelfth Night, jewelry serves as a concrete symbol of desire and affection. After Olivia first meets Cesario, she sends Malvolio after him to deliver a ring Cesario supposedly left behind. Viola knows the ring represents Olivia's love for Cesario. In Act 3, Scene 4, Olivia gives Viola (as Cesario) a "jewel" with her picture.
Olivia Giving Gifts Symbol. Olivia hints that in her opinion it is easier to buy the love of a young man than to win it. This opinion is symbolized by the gifts that she gives to Cesario, and, by default, Sebastian in an effort to win his love. The first gift she gives is via Orsino, the second directly to Sebastian whom she mistakes for ...
Letters and Messages. Twelfth Night is filled with letters changing hands among characters, most notably Maria’s letter to Malvolio written in Olivia’s hand. There’s also the letter that Malvolio writes back to Olivia, as well as the letter that Andrew writes to Cesario ordering a duel (which Toby does not deliver).
