12Th Night Love Essay

Twelfth Night Essay.

Title: Explore the different types of loves represented in Twelfth Night.

If you ever wanted to investigate the different kinds of love there may be in existence, and try to define and understand how different love can be represented, then twelfth seems to be the ultimate play.   It was written in 1623 by William Shakespeare, the characters of twelfth night display various sorts of characteristics and personalities which are the essential ingredients that add to the play to show the different ways love can be represented.   This is shown through the way they inter - act with the other characters.   They each portray different levels of social importance and value in what would have been Shakespeare"s time.
The different varieties of love which I intend to discuss during this essay will include: Unrequited love, courtship, false love, family love, friendship, wasted love, and above all true love.   These relationships can be described in great depth, through the character expression, their personality, language, structure and the role they play in Twelfth Night.

In this Essay, I intend to understand, explain and distinguish the different sorts of love from the other, and hope to discover whether love overall is indeed what makes the world go round.   I"d like to come to some sort of conclusion by using examples of the characters and explain each different situation between them that is love related.

Our first opportunity to investigate what sort of love is to begin in the play meets us in Act 1, scene 1.   Orsino, a dreary, romantic and boring bachelor, who seeks Olivia, speaks these opening lines to the play; "If music be the food of love play on…" His words are written in poetry and are in rich meaning.   The first line is important to the theme of the play.   It is a blank verse structure.   It gives the audience a good grasp and a fixture to Orsino"s character and his need for love.   It also gives us a good beginning to the play, as it...