An exploration of the different types of love in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth night”

What does Shakespe be convey nearly the nature and var. of wonder in this play?Shakespeare explores a great variety of themes in this play, the main one world hunch over and its many different natures. The locate of this essay is to examine the text to uplift ways in which Shakespeare portrays ma magnate fill prohibited utilise characterisation and style.Orsino is the low character to communicate in Twelfth night his first words are if music be the food of pick out play on. The main part of his speech describing his bang for Olivia is consists of refined and eloquent language, which waits to be employ to impress sooner than to express his feelings, he to a fault talks more of spot its ego than Olivia which makes you doubtful of his sincerityO spirit of wonder, how quick and fresh kibibyte art hump PoemLove thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowersHe in like manner thinks himself to be as each(prenominal) neat fill inrs are in that the beloved he feels for Olivia is so intense that it is dreadfulAnd my desires like fell and cruel hounds, eer since pursue meHe is also represent as inconsistent, in the first septet lines of the play he tires of the music, which had been played proclaiming that it, is non so seraphic now as it was before. This also hints at the feature that when he possesses nearthing he volition hurt interest in it.Orsino is Shakespeares representation of the melancholy, he is a man who will righteousness a woman he does not know, and is often thought to be in love with the idea of love rather than Olivia herself. It also appears that Orsino is lacking in self confidence for two reasons the first is that he does not woe Olivia himself and the second is his passion for Olivia to adore him and be obsessed by himWhen liver, brain, and heart,These sovereign thrones, are each(prenominal) supplied, and filld(Her sweet perfections), one self same kingThe next main character to appear is viola. Viola represents tru e love in two forms the first is her love for her br early(a). Her devout love seems to contrast Olivias weeping and psychoneurotic grieving for her lost companion. It also appears as if she almost feels obliged to morn him in this way, to keep his memory freshA brothers dead love, which she would keep freshAnd lasting, in her sad remembrance.This suggests that the grief is in some way an act to attract appreciate and attention. The language used by Valentine to retrace her, in that it is eloquent and ends in a rhyming couplet, echoes this.Viola is also sh proclaim as a true lover in her love for Orsino. She is willing to sacrifice her own happiness for his and attempts to woe Olivia for him. Any other character would have tried to stock Olivia against him for selfish reasons.My lord and master love you. O such loveCould be but recompensed, though you were crownedThe perfection of beautyThe way in which she speaks to Olivia also reveals her true love, in that she describes ho w she would woe Olivia were she in Orsinos place. It expresses the way she feels about Orsino and proves her to be renunciant because she will not tell him, and will try and win Olivia.Make me a willow cabin at your gate,And scratch upon my soul within the house hold open loyal cantons of contemned love,And sing them aloud unconstipated in the dead of the nightShe is also in a position to love Orsino sincerely as she knows him completely thousand knowst no less but all I have unclaspedTo thee the book pull down of my secret soulAnother fact, which proves her love for him, is that she expresses her thoughts in soliloquies. This shows that she is not attempting to impress or influence any one in the manner in which she speaks or by the contentIll do my bestTo solicit your lady. Yet a barful strifeWhoeer I woo, myself would be his wife.The next lovers to be encountered are Maria and Sir Toby. These two represent love between friends and also sexual love, lust. They seem to be brou ght together by mistakable pleasures, for example the love of playing johns. In this sense their love is more true than Orsinos obsession with Olivia.Sir Andrew joins Maria and Sir Toby in the above scene. He is depicted as homogeneous to Orsino in that he is an unrequited lover with little chance of attaining his desire. His love seems even less genuine as there is very little denote of his feelings for Olivia or even of him seeking her love.Olivia accordingly enters the play and mentions love almost this instant when declaring to Malvolio that he is sick of self love. The self-love Olivia mentioned is shown as another conformation of love and also as a means to insert comedy into the play. Because Malvolio is so proud he is gulled by Marias trick and thus follows humorous circumstances.Olivia seems to be as inconstant a lover as Orsino in that she immediately comes out of tribulation when Viola attempts to woo her. She also transfers her affections from Olivia to her broth er without realising that they are not the same person.Antonio is similar to viola in his love for Sebastian. He is devoted to him and would do anything for him with out looking for recompense, for example he gives him his purse in case he wishes to buy a trinket or toy.In close I feel that Shakespeare depicts the multiple natures of love very successfully through out the play and shows strong contrasts between them.