The ways in which Shakespeare portrays the themes of love in Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is a comedy point in Illyria, a Mediterranean country. However, amongst the well-timed comical scenes, Shakespe ar has different emotional predicaments intertwined with a variety of characters. much(prenominal) predicaments are due to misleading identities and different erotic love themes throughout the merriment including love between sorrow siblings, and the counts and countess of Illyria. The main plot of the Twelfth Night revolves round the three main characters, genus Viola, Orsino and Olivia who peach in rhyming couplets. Each of the main characters ricochet a love trilateral which expresses the main love themes in the play including Elizabethan courtly love, real selfless love and overwhelming love.The love between each character that form the love triplicity is such that the love and affection is directed one way around the triangle Viola loves Orsino who believes he loves Olivia who to a fault impetuously believes she loves Viola. Outside the love tri angle are the minor characters who speak in pros and show a further variety of different love themes save uttered in a light-heartened manner. These include self love and love based on a coarse agreement. every last(predicate) told the characters in the play are all connected through different love themes.Orsinos love for Olivia is excessively known as Elizabethan courtly love familiar to Shakespeare at the time the play was written. This type of love is described as a man of a high status courting an unattainable womanhood to be rejected, so the man move in that respectfore wallow in self-pity and act melodramatic. Orsino explains the different symptoms of his infatuation for Olivia to Viola, explaining how a typical lover should be fix and giving advice about love even though, ironically, he has had teentsy success. Viola recognises Orsinos infatuation for Olivia and questions his love for her. Viola is correct to questions Orsinos fixation to be in love as he has littl e interaction with Olivia until the final scene, but still believes he loves her. Orsino shows fickle mood changes believed to be experienced when in love, which Feste describes suckly.Love PoemI suffer unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul.O, then draw out the passion of my love for thy mind is a very opal.True, selfless devotion is another side to the love triangle in Twelfth Night. Viola expresses pure love and tremendous loyalty to Orsino, sacrificing her own happiness for Orsinos. Viola conveys her love with intense speaking and use of dramatic irony. Shakespeare allows the audition to witness Violas distress so the play becomes more and more intense with the Viola and Orsino scenes. Viola tells Orsino of her love for him in an ambiguous manner, so he never suspects her feelings for him.My father had a daughter loved a man, as it might be perhaps, were I woman, I should your lordship.I am all the daughters of my fathers house, and all the brothers tooA little, b y your favour Of your touch About your years, my lord.Sebastian and Olivia both show impetuous emotions through the play. Olivia immediately falls in love with Viola, who is the very(a) twin to Sebastian. Once Sebastian enters the play he is mistaken for Viola which further shows evidence that both Sebastian and Olivia have impulsive emotions as Olivia still accepts she loves Sebastian although he is not Viola and Sebastian falls immediately falls in love with Olivia, which whitethorn be seen as blind love. Olivias impulsive nature is not just evince with her love for both Viola and Sebastian but also when she announces her seven-year morning for her brother. The audience sympathises with Olivias painful rejection by Viola, and her problem to tell Viola her true feelings. It is also clear of Olivias unfamiliarity with rejection as she desperately tells Viola she may change her feelings for Orsino if Viola returns.I love thee so that, maugre all thy prideLove between siblings is also apparent in the play. Once Viola is rescued from drowning she immediately feels she has lost her brother, Sebastian. Her impulsive manner towards the ocean captain, shows the strong bond her and her brother have. Shakespeare uses a dreamy, pensive quality when describing Violas distress for her loss, and for her new independence and helplessness, which the audience can try and relate to.For saying so, theres gold.And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium.Antonio, who rescued Sebastian from drowning, develops a protective love for Sebastian, which could be interpreted as homosexual. Antonio expresses great respect, loyalty and selflessness when trying to help Sebastian. He offers his purse to Sebastian, which also shows great trust and friendship.My kind Antonio, I can no other answer make but thanksHaply your eye shall light upon many toyWith viewing of the town there shall you have me.Another bond through friendships, apart from Feste, mare, Fabian and Si r toby fillpot jug who are all work colleagues, is between Viola and Orsino who are also work colleagues, but develop an trusting relationship. Viola is Orsinos confidant and this reveals his personality to her, only further enhancing her love for him.Sir Toby and Maria show flirtatious behaviour throughout the play, as well as playful behaviour at Malvolio and Sir Andrews expense. It is clear they both enjoy each others company and share the same sense of humour and feelings towards other characters. The love between these two characters maybe described as practical love for a mutual benefit. If Sir Toby were to marry Maria he would have a companion who looks after him and Maria would have a higher status, marrying a knight. The audience understands the relationship between these characters and accepts them as a couple.MARIA My pay heed is Mary, sir.SIR ANDREW Good mistress Mary Accost-SIR TOBY You mistake, Knight accost is front her, board her, woo her, assail her.Malvolio, Oliv ias servant, believes it is unaccompanied possible for a countess to love a steward, so doesnt doubt the phoney letter conveniently situated in front of him by his vengeful work colleagues, who believe he has abused his power over them. In fact, the major reason Malvolio can so easily believe Olivia would and could love him is due to his obsession for power and to exercise that power over the other characters such as Sir Toby. He is described as having self-love by Olivia, which again allows him to so easily believe the letter is genuinely from Olivia although it instructs him to wear xanthous stockings and cross-gartered. The letter refers to four letters M, O, A, I which Malvolio instinctively believes are reference to his name. in yellow stockings, and cross-garteredO, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio and perchance wind up my watch, or play with my some rich jewel. Toby approaches courtesies there to me-Sir Andrew has the audiences pity and sympathy throughout the play due to his naive and innocent nature. Sir Andrew is encouraged by Sir Toby to be optimistic about Olivias feelings towards him. Sir Andrews hopeless love for Olivia is futile and at the end of the play he is still alone, which Shakespeare has used to further enhance the sympathetic attitude of the audience.I was adored once too.Shakespeare interconnects all the minor and major characters through misleading identities and a variety of love themes, which I have time-tested to outline. The major characters speak in rhyming couplets whereas the minor characters speak in pros, making a clear distinction between the two types of characters as well as the different range of love themes expressed by the different characters.I music be the food of love, play onCome, sir, you peevishly threw it to her