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Essay / Continuing Theme of Love in William Shakespeare's Play...
The play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a comedy with the continuing theme of love. In the play we see that none of the relationships that develop are considered normal, or what we call true love because true love has no reason, often it happens without knowing it. However, if you consider the relationships in this play, you can see that the characters are all looking for love or have a reason to find love. For example, Malvolio needs Olivia's love because this way he can gain status and wealth. Sir Andrew, on the other hand, wants Olivia's love because that's what everyone has convinced him to think. Duke however wants love in general because he is in love with the idea of love and uses Olivia as the face of the idea of love even though he has never had a real conversation with her. We see that these relationships are not considered true love, especially when compared to Viola's love for Orsino. Twelfth Night presents us with a pompous steward who finds himself in love with Olivia, but this love is not true in the case where Malvolio only wants...