Thursday, November 3, 2011
Sonnet 130 and Act 5 of Twelfth Night
When I read Sonnet 130 I thought of it as the narrator saying that even though the person he/she is talking about (lover or business partner) is not perfect, the narrator still accepts the person. I feel that act five of Twelfth Night supports this sonnet. The main example would be Orsino's love for Viola. For almost the entire play Orsino is in love with Olivia and sees Viola as a comrade/messenger because of Viola's disguise. Once Viola and Sebastian reunite everything changes. All of a sudden Orsino is not in love with Olivia anymore, instead he is in love with a woman who he thought was his messenger. After I read this I realized that Orsino is similar to the narrator of Sonnet 130. Just like the narrator, Orsino accepts that Viola tricked him into thinking she was a male, but through all of he trickery he still accepts her and in turn marries her. Finally, I really that Orsino is not only similar to the narrator of Sonnet 130, but he is also similar to all of the narrators in the sonnets that we have read. Just like these narrators he is stubborn and is determined to make Olivia love him, he is emotional, stubborn, and is accepting of his lover even though she is not perfect.
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