Analysis Of Just The Way You Are

“Just the way you are” by Bruno Mars is a love song talking about how his significant other is perfect just the way she is. Twelfth Night is a play with multiple themes, but the most prominent one would be infatuation. The whole play revolves around a love triangle that where each character would argue that there significant other was perfect “Just the way they are.” Each character explains their pure admiration throughout the play. Bruno Mars’s song about looks helps connect the ideas of lust within the play. Mars’s Chorus starts out with “When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I won’t change Cause you’re amazing just the way you are”. This verse, remarks one of the first lines in the play from act one, line 18 where Orsino says

Then Cesario sates “’Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on”. Meaning that she is stunning and that Mother Nature painted her skin so white and your lips so white”. We can compare Olivia’s beauty to the second Verse. “Oh you know I would never ask you to change if perfect is what you’re searching for then just stay the same”, this verse explains how Cesario thinks how amazing her looks are. Even though Cesario is not attracted to Olivia, she admires her, that she has true beauty and that mother nature made her the way she is and should not change. She has an attractiveness that Orsino, is in love with and since Cesario (who is secretly Viola), is in love with Duke Orsino, she admires how perfect she is. Cesario isn’t jealous though she just in a way looks at her admiration, the same way Mars admires his lover in the

“By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg, and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has”. What Sir Andrew means in this line is that he thinks the fool has a marvelous singing voice, and that he would give forty shillings (money), to have his nice legs and his exquisite voice. We can correlate this to Mars’s song in Verse two when he says “Her laugh, her laugh she hates but I think it’s so sexy, she’s so beautiful and I tell her everyday”. Even though Mars is assumedly referring to a female in this song, and about a laugh we can use this to connect with Sir Andrew complimenting and admiring the fool. Sir Andrew might not think that the fool has a “sexy” singing voice but he does admire it. Sir Andrew also was attracted to his legs, which ties with the verse where Mars thinks the significant other is so attractive and always lets them know. This line in the song and play show together, that either gender can be infatuated with one another when it comes to