is one of the most likeable characters in the play, like most of Shakespeare’s heroes. She has no major faults, her identity changes can be explained because it gets the plot He is obsessing about Lady moving. Viola also has the most purest love in Duke Orsino the play. She stays loyal to Duke Orsino whilst He is a royal everyone else’s affections switch between people. Orsino from Olivia to Viola, Olivia from Orsino’s servant Viola to Sebastian and Sir Toby and ’s marriage is clearly not one based on affection He indicates to him that he obsessing about He tells Orsino that Lady Olivia has vowed to and care. Proof in the play that she is solely in someone that is ignoring him not show her face to anyone for seven Valentine love with Orsino is when she recites a few Viola words expressing her love for him: “She pined Valentine found out all the information about in thought and with a green and yellow Lady Olivia melancholy she sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love Royal indeed?”. Her major fault in the play is her Scene 1 identity crisis. She has been playing a tough Her brother has died game and when the end of the play comes, she is confronted with people who know the She is in despair different sides of her identity. She is only to be saved by her brother, Sebastian, who liberates She has vowed not to show anyone her face her from her two lives and she is able to be Lady Olivia for seven years the person she wants to - Viola in love with Orsino. She is not allowing any visitors, the duke included These two have very similar characteristics and it is valuable for them to be discussed She has vowed not to marry anyone until her together. Olivia and Orsino are shown to the concealment is finished reader to be very self-indulgent individuals who like to have drama in their lives and be She is with her captain involved in everything. At the beginning of the She has washed up on a beach from a play they are both pining towards something. shipwreck Sebastian is her brother Sebastian is assumed dead Olivia is pining for her dead brother and Orsino is pining for Olivia, to which he claims She promises to pay the captain very well to be in love with. Both of them also like to She then decides to work for Duke Orsino, The captain tells her that it it is very unlikely to Viola Scene 2 Viola wishes to work for lady Olivia stay in their respective houses and mope dressed as a young man happen Character Sketches He agrees to help her with her quest around instead about trying to physically do Orsino and Olivia something about the situation. Both of them Viola wants to conceal herself from the world however are brought out of their moods by as well the entrance of Viola. Viola changes the characters to whom Orsino and Olivia were This is Olivia’s uncle originally in love with. Orsino starts to talk to Viola in a way that he never has with any other But also cheerful and amusing He is usually drunk person and Olivia forgets about her brother and starts to love Cesario (Viola in disguise). His drinking habits annoy Lady Olivia They both can be see then as not purist lovers, in the sense that both of them change He lives at Olivia’s house whom they love at the end of the play. They both end up marrying the opposite gender of Very rich the person they were in love with. He thinks they are a great match because He is bringing Andrew to live with him to court He is great friends with Andrew of… lady Olivia Accomplished in music and languages sticks out like a sore thumb during the play because amongst everyone else Sir Toby’s friend happiness and jokes, Malvolio is the dull character that likes to end the fun. Malvolio’s Above her degree victimising shortly comes to an end, however. Maria and Sir Toby engineered a downfall of Toby also tells him that Olivia won’t go for Toby persuades him into staying by He is at first discouraged and thinks Olivia Scene 3 Neither in estate him with the plan targeted at his love for Orsino because… complementing him doesn’t like him Coming to live at Olivia’s house with the Olivia. Malvolio is also a very arrogant person intention to court her He doesn’t have wit in thinking he will marry Olivia. We can see that he wants this when he says he will be He plans to leave the next morning known as, “Count Malvolio”. Maria and Toby Malvolio sent him a forged letter that made him appear Olivia’s waiting-gentlewoman mad in front of Olivia. Olivia decides to send Summaries him to the “darkness”, which is a dark place She tells Toby that Olivia is annoyed with his for individuals that have lost their minds. constant drinking and being drunk However, even amongst all of the labelling of him being mad, we can see that he stays true Maria Bawler to himself because he knows that he is sane. Malvolio is a character who should not be in Fool She thinks he is a… She doesn’t like Andrew the at all. He is a person who wants to bring cruelty to a world of love and Drunk jokes.

This is the name she chose to use for her new She has adopted the name “Cesario” at the One of the dominant themes has been Disguise and the identity confusion related to teenage persona house of Duke Orsino introduced it Shakespeare Act 1 To carry love messages to Lady Olivia Orsino likes him so much that he gives the love Cesario has become a favourite of Orsino most important to him emotion Orsino’s weeping speech at the beginning This is why she was so reluctant to go deliver Viola loves Orsino and wishes to be his wife introduces the message to Olivia Viola Scene 4 desire

Orsino however says that because Cesario is Cesario says that Lady Olivia is unlikely to rejection so good looking Olivia will answer respond to the messages after such a long time of being ignored This tells us Orsino has been conquered by “if music be the food of love, play on” love This means to convince Olivia to Marry Orsino Cesario is also asked to “carry my woes” by Orsino Later in the play Orsino is seen to be enjoying It can be seen by the rose petals, etc. Scene 1-2 himself with Lady Olivia not taking him When Lady Olivia told him to leave he He was told by Maria that there is a high however impressed her with a joke, keeping He was away for a long time Returns to the household of Olivia Orsino’s love for Lady Olivia is questionable probability that he will be fired his job because later in the play his affections swap quickly between Olivia and Viola She informs Lady Olivia there is a young boy carrying a message that will not leave until he Maria Shakespeare’s comedies often rely on speaks with her improbability Viola succeeding in concealing herself in a man is key to the plot advancing She is intrigued by the handsome young boy, Her decision to make herself look like a man There must have been other ladies of royalty and allows him to enter is also improbable that could’ve been hiring

She sends Malvolio with the ring She ends up passionately loving Cesario In the time Shakespeare was alive the “gender In 1600s women were not allowed to act in This only added to the complexity of switch” that Viola takes was impossible to do plays Shakespeare’s plays When Cesario is reacting Orsino’s speech, Lady Olivia in reality she tops him Sir Toby and Sir Andrew’s surnames are quite Ague cheek and Belch She tells Cesario that she will never be in love weird, adding to the comedy of the story with Orsino but he is welcome back to tell her Scene 5 the reaction Orsino had The wit of Toby and Maria’s is not matched He is often left looking dumb in many We can see this when he asks Maria “What’s your metaphor” with Andrew instances Comes to the household with the message from Orsino That he is being made fun of Andrew is also very easily flattered and he He recites the message to Olivia, but is Cesario Analysis That Lady Olivia will never like him can’t see… stopped He is not very clever He ends up telling Olivia a little about him This is yet another improbability He comes in drunk, as usual Sir Toby Scenes 3-4 Valentine tells Cesario that if Orsino continues He is taken care of by Feste the favours that he is giving him that he is likely to be advanced He detests Feste He is not impressed with Lady Olivia at letting Feste stay He compares Cesario to a goddess Malvolio He starts complementing Cesario Act 1 also sees the relationship between He is the steward of Olivia’s household The way that Orsino talks to Cesario starts to He complements Cesario’s looks Cesario and Orsino develop get weird Throughout the entire of the play we can see They start talking in a way that two normal that many people have been caused suffering males wouldn’t due to their affections to someone. Even at the beginning of the play Orsino depicts love This once again confuses who he is in love as an appetite which he cannot fulfil and even Orsino still however sends Cesario on with because he says to Cesario that Olivia says that love is a plague which she is missions to woo Lady Olivia Cesario’s looks will make Olivia listen to his suffering from. From both of these we can see messages of love that they contain elements of violence and they are love-struck victims which cannot fulfil He says this to explain that even though he He is smarter than we think and he proves this the need that they want. Throughout the play We are introduced to Feste “The hood doesn’t make the monk.” wears a clowns uniform (motley) he is not any to Olivia by quoting a Latin Proverb we see many more acts of desperation to get dumber than they are Love as a cause of suffering Literature Paragraphs the love that they desire. From Orsino’s hopeless love letters to Olivia and Olivia He stands out because amount all of the sending Malvolio with the ring at the romantic and funny characters we get a sour beginning of the play, The Twelfth Night is We are introduced to Malvolio individual filled with more love in the form of pain, than love in the form of happiness. There is even a He matches Olivia’s mood swings Scene 5 threat of death from Orsino to Cesario when Orsino thinks that Cesario has stolen his love. Olivia fell in love with Cesario in a matter of Shakespeare might be trying to say that we From the paragraph above we can see that Olivia’s new found love for Cesario shows minutes shouldn’t take the love relationships seriously throughout the play there is a theme of how quick the characters in this act fall in love at this point suffering love. Viola started loving Orsino in a matter of days

All the love relationships that are introduced He said that love was like a disease here can relate to the speech Orsino gave at the beginning of the play