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12th Night Explication - College Essays

12th Night Explication

I left no ring with her. What means this lady?
Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her!
She made good view of me, indeed so much
That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
She loves me, sure! The cunning Twelfth Night Explication
of her passion
Invites me in this churlish messenger.
None of my lord's ring? Why, he sent her none.
I am the man. If it be so -as 'tis-
Poor lady! She were better love a dream.
Disguise, I see, though art a wickedness
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
How easy is it for the proper false
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,
For such as we are made ...

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is at the very heart of this confusion. She has taken on the disguise of a gentleman in order to perpetuate her survival as an unknown woman in a foreign land. She becomes Cesario, a gentleman with intelligence and wit, servant and confidant to Orsino. Her intentions are innocent enough, but her actions create an entanglement of desires that have escaped her control.
Viola was sent by her master Orsino to woo the lovely Mistress Olivia. Viola approaches her charge with all of the confidence and character of the man she has become. It seems that Cesario possesses a charming wit and a handsome appearance, as he makes quite an impression on Olivia. Viola only realizes this when Malvolio runs after her with a ring claiming that Viola (or rather Cesario, he thinks) brought it to Olivia from Orsino, and that Olivia will have none of it. Viola is at first baffled by the appearance of this ring and by the so obviously false story that accompanies the ring. Her bafflement soon turns to ...

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Added: 9/9/2005 06:55:40 AM
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