The_Twelfth_Night

The Twelfth Night The Twelfth Night The Twelfth Night is a play about changes and yet the character of Olivia does not seem to change.. Olivia is a major character that cannot achieve love. Olivia loves the impossible love, the love that could never work. When Orsino offers Olivia the impossible love, it is impossible because it is superficial love. The events that occur to Olivia were caused by superficial love. Olivia is offered superficial love from Orsino. The love is superficial because it is love from afar Orsino does not even know Olivia. Olivia says, “Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him. Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth; In voices well divulged, free, learned, and valiant, And in dimension and the shape of nature A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him. He might have took his answer long ago” (1.5.258-264). Olivia knows that Orsino loves her but she chooses not to accept that love. Olivia may be scared to love because she has just lost her brother to death. She may fear that his love is not constant but his love love, olivia, viola, orsino, because, viola’s, superficial, cannot, yet, know, says, receive, night, loves, impossible, dream, brother, accept, work, woman, twelfth, should, seems, seem, play, out, one, olivia’s, now, mind, married, knows, just, free, even