Viola in William Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Viola in William Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night
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Viola in William Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night
Viola as a main character is the most deceitful, she tricks everybody
into believing she's a man, but as well as being most deceitful she is
also the most honest and sincere. So what are her attractive
qualities? Why does she appeal to us as an audience? In this essay I
will be looking at Viola and her appealing qualities as well as the
way in which I believe she should be acted.
In many ways Viola represents true love, love that is not self-seeking
but self-sacrificing, throughout the play she remains true to Orsino,
trusting him completely "To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die"
she would die for him and willingly. Many people would agree that any
person who could feel like that is stereotypically shallow and petty,
both traits people despise.
She carries out orders unquestioningly to "woo" Olivia, when she
herself knows she is wooing the woman that will be Orsino wife
"who'evr I woo, myself would be his wife" when it is she that wishes
to be in that place. She wants him to be happy and in giving him that
happiness, her happiness she is left alone, is that not
self-sacrificing?
Out of all the characters in the play it is Viola who speaks sincerely
and honestly, showing them what true love is "In faith they are as
true of heart as we" telling Orsino that love a woman can bear towards
and honestly, showing them what true love is "In faith they are as
true of heart as we" telling Orsino that love a woman can bear towards
him is as much as he can bear a woman. She says to Olivia "write loyal
cantons of contemned love, andsingthemloudevenin thedeadof night"
showing her what real love is and most likely stopped what would have
been a dreadful marriage between Olivia and Orsino, two people so very
unlike...
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