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Viola is the twin sister of Sebastian. She is Shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria; she lands safely and is assured by the Capitain that her brother is safe.She hears the story of Orsino's love for Olivia, and decides to go and serve disguised as a page. As Cesario she is taken into Duke's service and is sent to convey his love to Olivia. She gets access to Olivia and gives an eloquent account of Orsino's passion and goes on to add what he would do in his master's place. Malvolio gives him a ring from Olivia: Viola realizes that Olivia has falen in love with Cesario. As Cesario, she tells Orlando that she loves someone older than herself, meaning him. She gives a jewel to take Olivia. When she attempts to deliver it and Orsino's message to Olivia she is stopped by Olivia's declaration of love for her as Cesario. He replies that he will give his heart to no woman. She continues to rebuff Olivia's approaches. She is told by Sir Toby that there is a knight who demands to fight Cesario. She reluctantly prepares to fight Aguecheek, but is interruptedby the arrival of Antonio, who thinks that Cesario is Sebastian. He is amazed when he disclaims all knowledge of him. Cesario is disclaimed by Olivia as her betrothed husband and produces t
One-time Duke of Milan, Prospero, scholar and student of magic arts, has been deposed by his brother, Antonio, with the help of an inveterate enemy, Alonso, King of Naples. Prospero was a man who had disliked power. The conspirators had cought himunawares and he and his only child, his infant daughter, Miranda, were then consigned to a rotten hulk, so unseaworthy that the rats themselves had instinctively deserted it and thrust out across the open sea. They had been brought to a lonely and misterious island where the only inhabitants were Caliban and Ariel, a delicate spirit imprisioned by Sycorax before her unlamented death within the entrails of riven pine. Prospero had freed Ariel and made him a favourite servant. Caliban, however, although Prospero had first befriended him and taught him the use of language, had attacked Miranda's virtue, so that Prospero had condemned the brutish creature to become their household slave. Ariel serves his master gladly while Caliban perpetually rages against his state of servitude. Lady Macbeth is of royal blood, the grand-daughter through his eldest son of King Kenneth IV of Scotland. She is very ambitious, burning in unquenchable desire to have the name of queen. Macbeth was her second husband. She was a woman who raged constantly against the limitation of her own sex and when she learned that Duncan was to visit her castle, she determined that she would overcome any remaining traces of mere womanly weakness. Iago is probably the only Shakespeare's villains who is evil in a clinical sense rather than a human one. Macbeth is brave, eloquent and energetic. But no sooner has he commited his first crime than the rapid accumulation of guilt begins to brutalize his character. When his wife dies, he loses his last companion. He is now entirely alone, and he likens his fate to that of one of the wretched animals kept to be baited and eventually done to death, in an English bear-garden. Iago persuades Othello that his wife, Desdemona, has become the mistress of his lieutenant, Cassio, ans id t
Some topics in this essay:
Iago Roderigo,
Lady Macbeth,
IV Scotland,
Lady Macduff,
Soon Othello,
Cesario Sebastian,
Cesario Cesario,
Naples Prospero,
Caliban Prospero,
Malcol Danalbain,
lady macbeth,
thane cawdor,
weird sisters,
love cesario,
othello's jealousy,
love olivia,
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