Twelfth Night: Two Faces, One Mind
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As in most comedies, William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night extensively
uses disguises, masks and mistaken identities to add to the comical nature of
the play. Viola's disguise as Orsino's page, Cesario, becomes crucial to the
action in the play. Without this important element, the action in the play ....
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.... of their desires, a disguise like Viola's becomes the
center of the action, and causes almost all the of the important aspects of the
play.
The confusion that Sebastian creates when he returns would not occur
without Viola's disguise. Sir Andrew believes that the woman of his desires,
Olivia, is spending too much time with Cesario, and challenges him to a duel. As
he put it, Olivia was doing “more favors to the Count's servingman than ever she
bestowed upon me.” (3-2 l.5-7) At first, Vio ....
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