1. Orsino's Attitude Towards Love
... in which someone falls in love with the duke. Twelfth Night follows many other of the traditions set in Shakespeare's comedies, such as the theme of love which is usually prevalent in every Shakespeare comedy as can be seen with Orsino announcing his love for Olivia. In the opening of the play ... rather excessive, which in Twelfth Night is a theme of its own. We can identify Orsino's excessive attitude via the language he uses in the opening acts "and my desires, like fell and cruel hounds e'er since pursue me" Not only is the metaphor used here very hyperbolic it also portrays ... the...
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