12th_Night

12th Night In William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Or What You Will many relationships are forged or sabotaged for and by the protagonists, and as a result these relationships are made comical. The use of disguise causes deception and misunderstanding which leads to love where it is not meant to be. Foolery leads the characters into inescapable traps, which causes chaos with their emotions, and finally pure physical attraction and not true love lead some characters into falsely believing that they were in love. Therefore relationships were twisted and contorted so often that comedy was bound to result. Throughout Twelfth Night deception caused confusion between many characters, but the one character who remain in the center of this confusion was Viola. The deception was caused because of her outward appearance. She was disguised as a man in order to get closer to Orsino. The confusion begins when Viola is sent to woo Orsino’s love Olivia. She in turn falls in love with Viola’s counterpart Cesario. Olivia’s love is revealed when she sends her servant Malvolio to return a ring which Viola never gave to her. She says, "Run after that same peevish messenger, The County’s man. He left this ring behind him… I shakespeare, william, love, foolery, malvolio, viola, fool, confusion, time, therefore, result, relationships, olivia, man, disguise, deception, causes, viola’s, twelfth, throughout, says, night, letter, characters, another, after, toby, thou, things, shows, seen, sebastian, ring, realizes, plan, period, occurred, never, mad, leads, lady, know, every, emotions, comedy, cesario, caused, brother, believable, begs, antonio, write es, word