Gender Identity And Love In Luk's Twelfth Night

Love hides all faults. It is spoken of as making people blind to the truth that it staring them right in the face and this common in many plays. Twelfth Night is no short of that statement. With more than two love triangles and marriage or engagement of two couples it seats many different ideas in perspective of what is really “Love” and its effects.

Desperation, determined and pushy make light of the true terms of the love triangles between that of Viola, Duck Orsino and Countess Oliva. Each wanted to have their way and when approached by other they would be a different hunter and prey. When the Countess Oliva fell in love with Viola they appeared as a man and woman but in the audience, it was known that both where woman but even with that

Viola goes into hiding so that she can live with Duck Orsino, at the time Countess Oliva was not allowing men in her presents. Dressing as her brother was Viola’s way of surviving the terrible experience she found herself (Luk). As a woman dressed as a man seats a gender question that pops up throughout the play as to if people fall in love with the personality or the real person because of what they look like. Countess Oliva falls for both of Viola’s personality because in essences its Viola’s characteristic that win over Countess Oliva, Viola had treated Countess Oliva with respect and was not trying to entertain her like the Duck was. However, Countess Oliva does seem to be so infatuated with Viola’s traits that in the end she will be marrying a complete stranger that just looks the same. Duck Orsino falls no shor to the view too. He feells himself being drawn to Viola as a man but does not try to be involved so deeply with the “boy,” as he uses Countess Oliva as means of destraction. Which untimely fails as he too will be taken by all that is Viola and will be more will to show it when Viola reviles that she is a

The director could get the view through of the original Twelfth Night with few to little problems froe a viewer perspective. The entertaining and 70’s vibe were acceptingly put together. As you seat and watch the play without having to understand it you can follow the plot clear and with acracy do to the chores supporting the action that is taking place. The chores enhance the true unseen movement that we as the audience see but their just able to react with attention. By doing that people in the audiences could understand the madness of love that flowed throughout the