Heart vs. Head
The human race as a whole uses love to guide them through their life. Most people think with their heart and not their mind and that doesn't always tend to work out for them. In the 1602 play Twelfth Night or, What You Will by William Shakespeare this is a problem you see repeated throughout the performance. The characters in this play prove that thinking with your heart isn't always the best option even though it's the one people use more commonly through tough situations. The Duke Orsino is one of the main roles in the play who only thinks with his heart. Orsino spends the play chasing after the character named Olivia. Oliva has no interest in the duke even throughout the Duke saying time and time again how much he wants her. He talks to his servant, Malvolio, saying “O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purged
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This character's name is Olivia, she plays a very mysterious person who doesn't really want anything to do with anyone. While being pursued by the Duke Orsino she simply just doesn't care and doesn’t think he will be a good companion. She uses her mind to realize that he is just after the chase and doesn't necessarily want anything to do with her in the long run. He is simply going after her looks meanwhile not considering who she is. Meanwhile Olivia is always watching out for herself and realizing that he isn't good for her at all. The play shows a very good look at who does and doesn't think with their heart and the consequences that can happen when you aren't thinking clearly. This isn’t always the case with every person and some may argue that the duke and Malvolio are too excited to think with their mind. In the end of the play the duke still ends up with someone so it doesn't mean that just because you think with your heart you’re a bad person. It may just mean that you think more impulsively than most
when he gets bored of it then he tells him to stop, just like that.
Deceiving and irrational, love can be a challenging emotion to endure. It can be difficult to find happiness in love, and on the journey to find that happiness, love can influence one’s thought process. Shakespeare uses specific wording in his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to poke fun while exploring the individual’s quest for love. The desire to find love and a happy ending with a lover is so strong in the foundation of mankind, that people will not accept a life without it. In fact, they would rather give up their attribute of rationality than their opportunity to find a significant other. The heart’s control of the mind can make a foolish man.
“Don’t waste your love on someone who doesn’t value it.” In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare exposes the life of two young lovers in the Renaissance period fighting for something they cannot live without; each other. Although fate takes its toll, the everlasting feud between two families, conditional love by parents, and the irresponsibility’s of father and mother like figure are the main causes in the death of Romeo and Juliet. The idea of love is something that is valued in this play from many different aspects of characters, lines, and scenes. Shakespeare leaves the minds of readers soaring over not why it happened, but who was at fault.
In stark contrast to the dark and tragic "Othello," is one of Shakespeare’s lightest and funniest comedies, "Twelfth Night." The theme of love is presented in a highly comical manner. Shakespeare, however, once again proves himself a master by interweaving serious elements into humorous situations. "Twelfth Night" consists of many love triangles, however many of the characters who are tangled up in the web of love are blind to see that their emotions and feelings toward other characters are untrue. They are being deceived by themselves and/or the others around them.
Think with your head not your heart. This theme is universally true. You may need to listen to your heart, but you need to think with your mind. All throughout in Romeo and Juliet this is proven true. This play is a tragic play call Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It’s about two love struck lovers trying to find a way to be together. Romeo and Juliet are in two separate families that have a long standing feud to the point of fighting to the death. People will see in this play just how delusional people can become when in love. Romeo and Juliet's sudden deaths are mainly caused by the long standing feud and character flaws of Romeo and Juliet.
She's the Man is a lovely and hilarious comedy filmed in the United States. It was directed in 2002 by Andy Fickman and is based on the play the twelfth night written and composed by William Shakespeare. In the DVD She's the Man the main character, Viola Hastings, disguises herself as a man and takes her brother's place in the boys' soccer team. Her intentions are to prove that girls are capable of doing what boys do and in a way she succeeds to do just that. From Shakespeare (8) the book twelfth night is about Viola, later adopts the name Cesario, who find herself in an island shipwrecked and separated from her twin brother Sebastian. The ship captain then clothes her as a boy so that she would instead serve the Duke. The plot is that of a
are even made in the same way and from the same fabrics that were used
Parallels between Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night
It is well known that Shakespeare’s comedies contain many marriages, some arranged, some spontaneous. During Queen Elizabeth's time, it was considered foolish to marry for love. However, in Shakespeare’s plays, people often marry for love. With a closer look into two of his most famous plays As You Like It and Twelfth Night or What You Will, I found that while marriages are defined and approached differently in these two plays, Shakespeare’s attitudes toward love in both plays share similarities. The marriages in As You Like It’s conform to social expectation, while the marriages are more rebellious in Twelfth Night. Love, in both plays, was defined as
As prescient and insightful as this evaluation may seem after considering the outcome of Twelfth Night’s romantic pairings, it reads as a very shallow perspective rather than any sort of wisdom – to the Duke, love is never permanent, lasting, or constant (just like the nature of the tides, it always changes). Duke Orsino has no concern whatsoever for Olivia’s feelings of grief after the loss of her brother – she is merely an object of his desires at the moment, and as his eventual courtship with Viola proves, he is extremely fickle in his affections. (Even before Viola’s disguise became apparent, Orsino showed some signs of attraction to the male Cesario – this raises a few questions about exactly how far his romantic indecisiveness
After Olivia has her very first conversation with Cesario (Viola), where he tries to woo her for Duke Orsino, she immediately falls in love with him. After Cesario leaves her palace, Olivia says to herself ‘Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit do give thee fivefold blazon. Not too fast; soft, soft. Unless the master were the man. How now? Even so quickly may one catch the plague?’ Here Olivia states that Cesario’s external features are what attract her to him. Her metaphor contains a s...
Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night revolves around a love triangle that continually makes twists and turns like a rollercoaster, throwing emotions here and there. The characters love each another, but the common love is absent throughout the play. Then, another character enters the scene and not only confuses everyone, bringing with him chaos that presents many different themes throughout the play. Along, with the emotional turmoil, each character has their own issues and difficulties that they must take care of, but that also affect other characters at same time. Richard Henze refers to the play as a “vindication of romance, a depreciation of romance…a ‘subtle portrayal of the psychology of love,’ a play about ‘unrequital in love’…a moral comedy about the surfeiting of the appetite…” (Henze 4) On the other hand, L. G. Salingar questions all of the remarks about Twelfth Night, asking if the remarks about the play are actually true. Shakespeare touches on the theme of love, but emphases the pain and suffering it causes a person, showing a dark and dismal side to a usually happy thought.
Emotions are among the most potent forces humanity has ever faced, and, as William Shakespeare emphasizes, love is one of the most influential emotions an individual can experience. Throughout Twelfth Night, Shakespeare focuses on one main characteristic about love that helps to solidify the strength of this emotion on the characters. He wants to reader to understand that love is one of the few forces that can instantaneously incapacitate and cripple human beings, yet it simultaneously wields the capacity to bestow the highest level of satisfaction within an individual.
Duke Orsino’s repeated usage of poetical verse and poetic devices to describe his woes from love set him apart from other character. By using deep metaphorical language and flowing poetic structure, Shakespeare conveys Orsino’s melodramatic nature. In Orsino’s first speech, he takes a complicated and metaphorical approach to explain his love for Olivia instead of directly stating his desires. Instead of using prose, Orsino speaks in blank verse which is significantly fancier and floral in language. He says, “If music be the food of love, play on; /Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, /The appetite may sicken, and so die” (1.1 3-5) to compare his love for Olivia to his love of music. Orsino wants the “excess of it”, so that he can become bored of music and therefore his love for Olivia. This also shows that he is excessively wordy throughout his speech and often prolongs sentences with repetitive phrases such as “…,play on/Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting” (1.1.3-4) and “…may sicken, and so die” (1.1.5) that have the same meaning. His long-winded language illustrates the dramatic quality...
employment of the Duke Orsino and falls in love with him. The Duke, who is unaware that