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Act 3

False Perception in Twelfth Night

False Perception in Romeo and Juliet

Misconception of Love in Romeo and Juliet

Act 5

Misconceptions of Love in Twelfth Night

Questions

Summary of Twelfth Night Cont'd

Summary of Twelfth Night

Appearance Versus Reality is used to...

Appearance Versus Reality in the plays...

Act 2

Summary of Romeo and Juliet

Examples of Appearance Versus Reality

What is appearance versus reality?

Real World Examples:

Act 1

“[Love is] more than physical attraction. Infatuation focuses on the physical” (Cyprian).

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Create False Perceptions Between the Characters

  • Tybalt appears wanting to duel Romeo
  • Romeo claims to love Tybalt and the Capulet family
  • Mercutio sees this as dishonourable and battles him instead
  • Mercutio dies causing Romeo to fight Tybalt killing him as well
  • the Prince wants Romeo exiled
  • Romeo spends the night with Juliet before he flees to Mantua
  • Juliet's parents want her to marry Paris this week but Juliet refuses
  • Capulet threatens to disown her so she pretends to agree
  • Juliet seeks Friar Lawrence for help

“Holy Saint Francis! What a change here!/ Is Rosaline, that thou didn’t love so dear,/ So soon forsaken” (Romeo and Juliet II iii 68-70)?

“love can last a long time. It becomes deeper and more powerful over time. Infatuation is powerful, but short-lived” (Cyprian).

“Poor lady, she were better love a dream./ Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness” (Twelfth Night II iii 26-27).

"Conceal me what I am, and be my aid

For such disguise as haply shall become

The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke...

This will allow me very worth his service."

(Twelfth Night I ii 53-59)

"Viola plays her part as a persistent ambassador of love too well... [she] succeeds in penetrating Olivia's various physical and emotional defences" (Burt)

Appearance: the external aspect of someone or something

Reality: the true state or situation that exists

"Take thou this vial, being then in bed,

And this distilling liquor drink thou off;

...Each part deprived of supple government

Shall stiff and stark and cold appear, like death"

(Romeo and Juliet IV i 95-105)

"the potion - or the comatose state it will induce - is intended to divert Juliet from 'death himself' ... But the likeness is so persuasive that the distinction becomes uncomfortably blurred" (Pollard)

  • long feud between the Capulet and Montague families in the streets of Verona
  • Romeo is in melancholy because he was rejected by Rosaline
  • Capulet wants Paris to marry his daughter Juliet
  • Romeo and Benvolio sneak into the Feast that is at Capulet's house
  • Romeo sees Juliet and they both fall in love with eachother
  • Both realize that the other is an enemy to their family

What are some examples of appearance versus reality seen in Shakespearean plays?

True or False:

1) The love triangle in Twelfth Night involves Viola loving Orsino, Orsino loving Olivia, and Olivia loving Sebastian.

2) The Capulet and the Montague families have been in a long feud

  • Duke Orsino who is hopelessly in love with Olivia who does not love him back
  • Olivia’s brother died so she is in great despair wishing to marry no one and to see no strangers
  • on the Illyrian coast, Viola is rescued from a shipwreck while her twin brother, Sebastian, remains unseen
  • Viola disguises herself as a man with the new name “Cesario” in order to be a servant for Duke Orsino
  • Cesario soon becomes Orsino’s favourite servant and asks Cesario to send messages of love to Olivia for him because he is so young and handsome
  • Viola ends up falling for Orsino and wishes to be his wife
  • Cesario sends the messages to Olivia who ends up falling for Cesario instead
  • creates a love triangle where Viola loves Orsino, Orsino loves Olivia and Olivia loves Cesario
  • Romeo has been misinformed that Juliet is dead so he buys poison in order to kill himself
  • Friar John couldn’t send the letter so Friar Lawrence realizes that he has to rescue Juliet on his own and keep her in his cell until Romeo arrives
  • Romeo breaks into the vault while Paris was there
  • Paris assumes that Romeo was here to violate the tomb so he fights Romeo but dies
  • Romeo laments over Juliet’s body, drinks the poison and dies
  • Juliet then wakes up to find Romeo and Paris dead
  • Friar Lawrence tells her to hide in a nunnery but she refuses so Friar runs away while Juliet kisses Romeo and stabs herself to death
  • The Prince, the Capulets and Montague who says that his wife died due to Romeo’s exile all enter
  • Friar Lawrence then tells everyone the true story
  • Sebastian is still alive but thinks his sister, Viola, is dead so he goes to Orsino with the protection from Antonio who is passionately in love with Sebastian
  • Sir Andrew challenges Cesario to a battle because he is also attracted to Olivia, but Antonio tries to fight for him because he thinks that Cesario is Sebastian
  • Antonio is then arrested by Orsino’s officers because they were old enemies leaving him to feel betrayed because Cesario denied knowing him
  • Viola has newfound hope that Sebastian may be alive
  • Olivia asks Sebastian to marry her and of course he says yes because he sees that she is beautiful and rich
  • when Cesario and Orsino make their way to Olivia’s house, Olivia welcomes her new husband, making Orsino furious at Viola even though she knew nothing about this
  • Sebastian then appears on the scene and everything is revealed
  • Orsino then realizes that he loves Viola now that he knows she’s a man and they both get married
  • Romeo overhears Juliet articulating her desire for Romeo and the problems of his family
  • they profess their love for each other
  • Romeo has to send instructions about their marriage to Juliet by tomorrow if he intends on marrying her
  • Romeo gets Friar Lawrence to help plan their marriage because he thinks this marriage will end the feud between the families
  • Benvolio reveals that Tybalt wrote Romeo a letter challenging Romeo to duel
  • Romeo and Juliet get married in Friar Lawrence's cell

Shakespearean Examples:

Act 4

  • Olivia cannot be in love with Cesario because he is only a disguise
  • One cannot love someone who is not real
  • love is not just the physical attraction one has for someone
  • Olivia appears to love Cesario but she does not know who he is internally leaving her to be only infatuated
  • she is using a disguise to trick Orsino into thinking she is a man worthy of delivering his love messages to Olivia
  • Duke Orsino has a false perception of Viola thinking that she is a man
  • Viola also tricks Olivia into thinking she is a man because she ends up falling for her

Identify the Character's Misconception of Love

  • Romeo shows signs of infatuation by quickly forgetting about Rosaline even though he was melancholic after she rejected him
  • he would always talk about his love for her and now it meant nothing after meeting Juliet
  • shows that it appears he loved her, but in reality, it was just infatuation
  • his love was brief and short-lived which are signs of infatuation
  • the potion causes Juliet to have all the symptoms of death
  • this realistic appearance of death makes it difficult for characters to distinguish her state from the truth
  • the other characters perceive her as dead, but in reality she is still alive

Hamlet

Macbeth

"...That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain" (Hamlet I v 106-8)

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (Macbeth I i 12)

  • what is good is bad, and what is bad is good
  • the things that appear to be bad are actually good and vice versa
  • Claudius appears to be an honest and trustworthy person, but in reality he is a spiteful villain
  • smiles can make one appear kind and pleasant
  • Claudius is using the smile to mask his corrupt and evil personality
  • Friar Lawrence proposes a plan where Juliet drinks a poison that will put her in a deathlike coma the night before her wedding
  • He will then tell Romeo to get Juliet from her tomb so that she can live with him in Mantua
  • Juliet then takes the poison before she sleeps
  • The Nurse tries to wake her up on her wedding day but realizes that she is “dead”
  • Friar Lawrence then quickly organizes her funeral as plan

Clip of Sebastian and Viola Reuniting

Appearance Versus Reality in Shakespearean Plays

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