The Twelfth

Cyrano de Bergerac is a tragic comedy, a play which is light and humorous and is composed of jokes and humorous performance. In this play, Cyrano continuously makes the audience laugh by making jokes about his own physical appearance. This play comes very close to being a tragedy, a work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw. In this play Cyrano suffers the consequence of a tragic flaw, when he talks with Roxanne…

Tarsem Singh, in his movie The Fall, shows exceptional usage of visual story telling, or mise-en-scène. Characters and themes are introduced within the first two minutes of the film without any usage of dialogue. These beginning moments, while upon first viewing, are not so easy to make sense of, but subtly hold foreshadowing for the future events of the film. The opening scene of the film starts with a series of people yelling and panicking in black and white. The black and white filter alone…

The gravediggers in act 5 scene 1 are used to potray a sense of humor commonly found in Shakespeare’s plays. This gravediggers profess clowns which makes them to be of a unique kind in the play. They serves to lighten the tragic stress of Ophelia’s death in the play. This type of character appealed to the members of the audience who could not afford seats and thus stood on the ground. The play would definitely get a laugh from this un educated diggers who would enjoy a relief to the long and…

In Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, characters are gendered in the way they speak about love, as male characters, such as Orsino, articulate about love in a tactical and orchestrated way, while female characters, such as Viola, speak about love freely and off the cuff. These display of love, convey that male characters in the play view love as a goal that must be achieved and to do so must plan how to gain love. However for female characters love is a consequence of character and actions,…

Kietzman, Mary Jo. "Will Personified: Viola as Actor-Author in Twelfth Night." Criticism 54.2 (2012): 257-89. Web. Identity and status weigh on the players and plays themselves. Actors were being portrayed as professionals and characterizing them in a radiant light aside from their characters. For Viola, at the time, women were not permitted on the stage. Viola’s player would in turn be a male playing a female, playing a male as Cesario. Caldecott, Henry Stratford (1896). Our English Homer, or…

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is one of his most beloved plays. There are several notable themes that construct the play that makes the play great. Many elements within the play take on what it was like during Shakespeare's time, while others focused on political commentary. The play talks about the main character Viola and her disguise as a man, while look for her brother Sebastian. Her disguise creates a lot of misperception; many would say that Twelfth Night shines a…

Merriam-Webster defines love as “a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person” (“Love”). Yet, in Twelfth Night, this may not be the case. In this play, love is disposable, achieved only through greed. Shakespeare picks apart his own characters ' "affection" for each other. This shows us how none of their love is strong or constant. None of the relationships portrayed in Twelfth Night compare to the definition of love. Throughout the play, Shakespeare conjures up about 10 different…

Twelfth Night Today, women struggle less in regards to their rights and freedom. In the play Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare shows the different ways that women struggle more than men. In Twelfth Night, women struggle more than men through their independence, work and education, and power. In Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare proves that women struggle through their independence. Women were believed to be incapable of taking care of themselves. They were believed to be weak and emotional,…

Although Hamlet is a tragedy and Twelfth Night is a comedy, many of the themes in these two stories are similar. Shakespeare’s writing allows two completely different stories to share similar themes and overall messages. Even if it isn’t clear at first, looking deeper into his writing, you can clearly identify some major similarities. First, the theme of disguises is very evident in both plays. In the play Twelfth Night, the characters physically wear disguises to fool the other characters.…

“The romantic Comedic ending of Twelfth Night leaves us with a disturbing vision of a preculiarly volatile passion if we believe that love is an emotion felt within, merely expressed, made apparent, in public word and action.” – David Schalkwyk Is Love and Emotion? Page 110 Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night is a comedic portrayal of the trials and hardship of love, it tracks the journey of realization and allows the audience to discover the differences between passion and true love. In this…