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    William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night explores gender differences of the characters to cause problems. After Viola becomes a man, after surviving a shipwreck, her gender starts causing problems when Olivia, the duke’s love interest, falls in love with her. Another problem with gender is with Sebastian, Viola’s twin brother, because people confuse the two for each other. A third issue gender causes is the love triangle between Orsino, Viola, and Olivia. Gender causes issues in this play because Viola

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    Romeo and Juliet is far superior to The Twelfth Night due to the fact of three different story elements.these story elements are very crucial to the making of a story and making a story worth reading. The 3 differences are the plot, theme, and symbolism, which proves why Romeo and Juliet is superior to The Twelfth NIght. the first difference is plot. The plot of Romeo and Juliet is The plot was based on a fourteenth-century Italian short story, or novella,written by Matteo Bandello, that included

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    Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes Love as a Cause of Suffering Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy, and romantic love is the play’s main focus. Despite the fact that the play offers a happy ending, in which the various lovers find one another and achieve wedded bliss, Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain. Many of the characters seem to view love as a kind of curse, a feeling that attacks its victims suddenly and disruptively. Various characters claim to suffer painfully from being in love, or

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    Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a widely known romantic comedy that was first published in 1623. Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s finest works and it tends to have an affinity to modern romantic comedy films and stories. The play has love triangles, unrequited love, lies and deceit, playful comedic relief, and obstacles that interfere with characters’ goals. Many of Shakespeare’s plays were turned into film adaptations and many were used very loosely as source material. Hamlet had Lion King (very

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    a month and it ended in a tragic divorce the next month. You might scoff at her stupidity, but love has the same irrational effect on characters in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Although the characters in Twelfth Night might start with ideas of who they love they end up finding irrational love in unexpected places. Viola begins Twelfth Night not by seeking out the love of a potential partner but, by seeking the love of her lost brother, Sebastian. When her character is first introduced to the reader

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    Shakespeare wrote the romantic comedy play, Twelfth Night, in the year 1601. Despite being over 400 years old, people have been studying and performing the play continuously. Even though some may argue American audience now cannot understand the significance of social hierarchy in the play nor the lines written in Shakespearean English, Twelfth Night remains popular today as shown by New York Times’ publishing of seven reviews on different performances of Twelfth Night. At the same time, Shakespeare utilizes

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    the characters. Before movies, people learned about love in literature. Even in the old literature, love was a common theme. In Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night”, different types of love between the characters are investigated. Each of the characters’ relationships play a role in the development of the story. The first and main type of love in “Twelfth Night is true love. The story’s plot is driven by the complicated love triangle between Orsino, Viola, and Olivia. However, Viola’s love is the only

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    Taming of the Shrew (TS) and Twelfth Night (TN) are both comedies written by renowned playwright William Shakespeare. Each tell a love story; however, both have different journeys to their conclusions. Taming the Shrew explores what happens when the lead character is woman "against" love and Twelfth Night examines what happens when the lead female character is unable to even express love. Twelfth Night's Viola and Taming of the Shrew's Katharina are two vastly different characters. Katharina strives

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    Man, directed in 2006 by Andy Fickman is, an adaption of the play Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare. The play and the movie were made just about 400 years apart from each other and still the writers were able to modernize the play from 1600 to reach an audience of 2006. The movie and the play focus on the themes of gender roles and mistaken identity entwined with unrequited love. The movie she’s the man and the play twelfth night both revolve around a woman, whose name is Viola, respectively

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    3/19/15 Comparison Essay Rough Draft The dark tragedy “Hamlet” and the romantic comedy “Twelfth Night,” both by William Shakespeare, have many similarities, despite their varied genres. The main similarity between the two plays are their overlapping themes. Major themes in both plays are: disguises, love being a cause of suffering, and marriage. Though they share several of the same themes, “Hamlet” and “Twelfth Night” are two very different plays, where the themes are written in a highly different

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