Disguises

Making it What You Will Shakespeares twelfth Nights subtitle, What You Will, entices the thought that you can let the play what youd like it to be. The audition isnt the barely group that gets to change the shape of the play however. Through veils and fancied identities, the characters in the play are subject to alter the play in an attempt to fulfill their needs. Viola does this successfully by using her disguise as a servant to get compressed and personal with Orsino, who she would not have been close to norm wholey. Sir Andrews guise on the other hand, doesnt work as well as hed hoped.His attempts to cloak his true Joking, fun-loving personality with a block step to the fore of machismo. His disguise ends up turning Olivia off, sort of of on. For both these characters, their attempts to change who they are, and make the play what they will, work to reconstruct the plot of the play. Violas pursuit at detective work Orsinos eye was easily done once her disguise abled her to get close to him. Without her disguise, she would be viewed as Just another woman trying to fence for Orsinos love, which he proclaims is only for Olivia. In act 2, cene v, Orsino opens up to Cesario, his trusted confidant.He negotiation to Cesario and tells him all about how he views love. He explains to Cesario that, For, boy, however we do approbation ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than womens are, (II, iv 30-34). This helps Viola, as shes able to understand that men, especially Orsino, have wavering affections towards women, so she should not worry about his love for Olivia. Without her ability to get Orsino to assign in her, she wouldnt really know what to do or how to act owards him.Gaining this information, shes able to act on it in a bureau that completely alters the play. Sir Andrew tries instead to b act how he thinks Olivia would like him to. He expects that she, like all other women, is attracted to a macho, strong man. However, he couldnt be more wrong. He tries to seduce her this way for the majority of the play until he eventually learns that has been the involvement that has scared her away from him the whole time. It isnt until he challenges Viola to a duel that he realizes hes sunk to deep and his take ons with Olivia are over.Had Sir Andrew actually gone along with whom he was, he may have had a better chance with Olivia. He couldVe negated the whole love triangle by taking Olivia out of the game, but he altered the plot in a way which he couldnt do that. Both of the characters try to disguise themselves to improve their chances with their lovers. composition it works for Viola, who finds out a lot about Orsino, it doesnt work for Sir Andrew who only scares Olivia away. Whether they were successful or not, the two of them altered the plot of the play by trying to make it What You Will. Disguises By therealestging