Viola's Thoughts

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Viola's Thoughts

My life is now in an official state of turmoil, it's turned upside

down and the solution is not within reaching distance. How can one

solitary person feel so many different emotions? Right now I am going

to tell the countess Olivia that my master - the person I have

inevitably fallen for -Duke Orsino is in love with her.

Why my love for the duke is ever growing I am still unsure. He is

trying to woo an innocent and grieving woman, who has vowed not to

love for seven years as she is in mourning for her brother. This is

why I feel a connection to dear Olivia, but amidst all this confusion

she seems to have shown an interest in me- what I am supposed to do

about that is beyond my knowledge! I pity her, as she knows not what

she is letting herself in for.

Maybe my disguise was not such a good plan after all. If only my

brother Sebastian was here, I wouldn't have to carry on this charade.

What has become of him I wonder…I miss him so much, I should still

hope?

Now, what to say to Olivia? I have to carry out my master's wishes,

but she has already made it clear she has no feelings for him! Still

he persists though, always walking around looking lovesick, why only

this morning the duke said

'Get thee to yond sovereign cruelty, Tell her of my love, more noble

than the world' showing his incessant nature.

What followed though confirmed my suspicions about him being just in

love with her status and title, I remember well, he said:

'Prizes not quantity of dirty lands; the parts that fortune hath

bestowed upon her' it proves that Duke Orsino just thinks he is in

love with the countess Olivia, he is so overcome by her money and

power, otherwise he would not talk about it in such a way. Or maybe it

is just wishful thinking on my part, I am in love with the Duke very

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