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How do different characters show varying attitudes to love and behave in different ways?

How do different characters show varying attitudes to love and behave in different ways?

Love plays a significant part in the play, “Twelfth Night”. The theme of love runs throughout the play, weather it be the context of love between siblings, love for the opposite sex or the love a character feels for themselves. Every new character we meet is accompanied by feelings of love towards another character in the play, or is the object of someone else’s affections. Act 2 Scene 4 and act 3 Scene 1 are both examples of these contrast and different approaches towards love.
“Twelfth Night” consists of many love triangles, the most obvious being that of Viola, Orsino and Olivia. This is mainly because they are being deceived by themselves and/or other characters that their love is really true love. There are some instances where the love a character feels for another is true and a great example of this type of love is Viola’s love for Orsino.
In Act 2 Scene 4, Viola and Orsino ...

Posted by: Rainey Day

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