Twelfth night

Title explaination: the title referes to the twelfth night of christmas

Summery (in one sentence): Girl lies about being a boy and gets everyone in a complex love triangle.

Exposition: the firts act

Complication: Love triangle

Climax: cesario turns out to be viola.

Resolution: the trueth comes out

Start of the book: viola after her shipwreck.

Narration: everyone, because it is supposed to be a play.

Main characters: Viola, a young woman of aristocratic birth, and the play’s protagonist. Washed up on the shore of Illyria when her ship is wrecked in a storm, Viola decides to make her own way in the world. She disguises herself as a young man, calling herself "Cesario," and becomes a page to Duke Orsino. She ends up falling in love with Orsino—even as Olivia, the woman Orsino is courting, falls in love with Cesario. Thus, Viola finds that her clever disguise has entrapped her: she cannot tell Orsino that she loves him, and she cannot tell Olivia why she, as Cesario, cannot love her.

Setting: Takes place in the middle ages, in and around the house of orsino and Olivia.

Themes: Uncertainty of Gender, Love as a Cause of Suffering, love and desire. 

Literary devices: ironie en metaphores.

Tone/mood: The tone of Twelfth Night is irreverent

Impotant Quotes: O time, thou must untangle this, not I (2.2.)

Period context: Middle ages.

Genre: comedy 

Opinion: Funny to read, because we see this story in many movies.

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