Relationships In Twelfth Night

In the novela, A Midsummer Nights Dream, written by William Shakespeare, there are many moments, issues, themes, and problems to discus. A major issue that I would like to discuss would be love’s difficulty throughout the story. Although love is driving a majority of the characters in this play, it is not a romance, but a comedy. A comedy that shows the audience how people can be blind, foolish, and innocent when manipulated by the extraordinary strong power of love. Love is an uncontrollable force in the play having the characters used like puppets after taking a love potion, which shows they are controlled by love.

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages” (Nietzsche). Love is brought together by two people who truly connect and mean something to one another. They must be friends before they can be loved ones. This quotes relates to Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare because the love in this play happens leads to marriage too fast for them to be truly in love. If this play were to continue after the fifth act, their marriages would most likely be unhappy.

The historical symbolism within Shakespeare’s plays set him apart from any writer. The script was given to him through daily life, and his ability to mold it into fictional art is what makes Shakespeare the creator of fictional man. His confusing and conflict filled plays like twelfth night ressemble the back and forth change of monarchs, marriage, and trickery during the early years and how conflict can consume a person and spin them into insanity like Henry VI. Henry VIII’s love letters to Anne Boleyn saying, “Mine own sweetheart, these shall be to advertise you of the great loneliness that I find here since your departing, for I ensure you methinketh the time longer since your departing now last than I was wont to do a whole fortnight”(Henry VIII). This letter mirrors the words of lovers within any of Shakespeare’s work.

Throughout the years, authors have written about love in many endearing ways. There is the love of a puppy, the love of money, the love of a mother, the love of a friend, and the passionate love that is only expressed to a lover. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, many different forms of love are presented to the reader, from the love of a friend to the love’s truest form, romantic love. One of the most prevalent forms of love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is romantic love. There are many different examples of romantic or true love in this play.

“Although that kind of romance can be found in Shakespeare’s romances, the genre of romance contains so much more. No two romances are the same, and there is no precise formula for these plays as Shakespeare wrote them. Romances swerve between humor and heartbreak in a way that can be powerful, confusing, beautiful, and contradictory” (Tucker). In William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing,” relationships are formed and put to the test. The relationship between Hero and Claudio are completely different from the relationship between Beatrice and Benedict.

For the remix project, my group and I chose to do our remix on act 2 scene 4 of Twelfth Night. In my group was Lexie Gula, Kristen Reid, Karen Larkin, and Gabby Baker. In the group we all had different tasks for contributing to the remix.

William Shakespeare’s works, written primarily from the late eighteen hundreds to the very early sixteen hundreds, have long been the subject of academic debates and analysis. Potent with double entendres, metaphors, and social commentary, it is easy to apply queer theory to Shakespeare’s plays, notably Twelfth Night, written in 1601. Though Twelfth Night’s ending pushes its characters into traditional heterosexual romances and binary gender roles to satisfy the genre and placate conservative Elizabethan audiences, the characters in the comedy defy tradition by exploring homosexual love and expression of gender. The most apparent homosexual themes are present in the relationship between Antonio and Sebastian.

Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing, serves as psychological barometer of the 1600’s combing a cheerful mood with an intricate series of deceptions and miscommunications, or as critic Muriel C. Bradbrook put it, this play, a comedy of masks where deeper issues are overlaid with mirth.” Explains quite perfectly the quirkiness of the romantic relationships of Beatrice/Benedick and that of Hero/Claudio as they traverse through a maze of masterful ruses bringing to light the importance we place on social constructs of marriage, feminine ideals, and ultimately an ineptness of authority. In Victor Cahn’s book The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide, he points out that, “During Shakespeare’s time, marriage was a maledominated

Narcissism in Twelfth Night A Freudian study of Twelfth Night An essential element of William Shakespeare 's comedy Twelfth Night is the theme of self-love i.e. vanity and narcissism. Shakespeare likely set Twelfth Night 's action to occur January 5 and 6, the Eve of Epiphany and the day of Epiphany. During the course of these two days, all of the most important characters experience epiphanies, revelatory moments in which they recognize truths concerning themselves, their vanities and narcissism.

Today, men and women have equal rights, but that does not mean life has always been simple for both genders. When Shakespeare writes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are roles, behaviors, and expectations for the dominant men and submissive women. This literature portrays the major changes in the lives of both sexes throughout the years, which shows the advances women gain with time. The gender issue of men being dominant and women being submissive used in the drama, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, shows the differences in the roles, behaviors, and expectations appropriate for each gender and is an example of an outdated stereotype.

Romeo & Juliet William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet entails a story of a young impulsive love that ends in a disaster. This traces the secret romantic relationship between the two families in Verona, as they carry an ancient feud, deepening from generation to generation. Romeo—a Montague—falls deeply in love with Juliet—a Capulet—at a masquerade ball arranged by Juliet’s father. Later during the night, these two lovers expose their love to each other as they decide to marry each other next day. However, life does not follow plans.

We can all relate to a time where we have had no control over the course of love, “the course of true love never did run smooth”. True love always encounters difficulties, which is clearly present throughout A Midsummer Night’s dream. A Shakespearean comedy is a play where everything starts in chaos but ends in harmony. For my Shakespeare lovers, I, Neil Armfield have interpreted A Midsummer Nights Dream to accommodate the modern world we have evolved in. My play is intended for mature audience due to nudity, mild adult themes and mild violence.

in Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain and suffering with unrequited love and complicated love triangles. the love triangle consists of duke Orsino who loves Olivia, yet Olivia who does not love duke Orsino and in fact loves his servant Cesario who is actually viola in disguise. I believe duke Orsino's fantastical and obsessive love for Olivia who he hasn't even interacted with shows that he is in love with the idea of olives and her looks, not her personality, he believes he should be with Olivia as they come from the same class, yet Olivia has no interest in him causing duke Orsino to feel love sick, shown through “if music be the food of love, play on give me excess of it” expressing how he wants excess

It is evident from the phrase “O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,/Methought she purg’d the air of pestilence!” (I.i.18-19) that Orsino’s love for Olivia is based on a physical attraction rather than an informed, intimate one in which Orsino’s feelings are validated by spending enough time with her to develop a deep connection. Orsino’s illusory love provides a weak foundation on which he tries to build a relationship during the course of the play, which as we see, fails to earn Olivia’s affections. To find ‘true’ and realistic love in the play, Orsino needs to be cured of his artificial

Shakespeare’s novel “Macbeth” demonstrates the many ways in which love can factor into a play. Through the connections built between characters, and the relationship Macbeth holds with power, the ways in which love are perceived through “Macbeth” are evident. In Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth,” there is a strong relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, the relationship between the two characters is known as the most obvious - yet this relationship challenges traditional perceptions of love. The attitude Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have towards each other constantly changes, thus making it hard to form a clear-cut opinion of their relationship.