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In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare introduces a cast of uproarious characters (including Malvolio, Toby Belch, and Andrew Aguecheek), and tells a story of fickle fortune, mourning, love, and reunion. The Shakescleare modern English translation of the play will help you comprehend Shakespeare’s language, and the play’s most important quotes ...
- Act 1, Scene 1
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- Modern English Translation
Go and find the coroner then, and let him investigate my...
- Act 1, Scene 1
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. In Act 1, Scene 4, Orsino compares his soul to a locked book:
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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.
Metaphor Examples in Twelfth Night: "debt of love..." See in text (Act I - Scene I) Olivia’s sadness and ardent commitment to keeping that sadness “fresh” in her “remembrance” can be seen as a pose of melancholy. Like Orsino who affects the tropes of love-sickness, Olivia plays the role of melancholy. Together, these two characters ...
Enter SIR TOBY BELCH (1.5.116) — Sir Toby Belch, half-drunk, delivers the news that there's someone at the gate. Olivia asks him who it is, but all Sir Toby knows is that it's a gentleman. Olivia asks Sir Toby how he came to be drunk, but Sir Toby is too drunk to give a coherent answer, and leaves.
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.)
