The Contrasted Attitudes to Love in William Shakespeares...

The Contrasted Attitudes to Love in William Shakespeares Twelfth Night In the play, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare shows two main attitudes to love. The courtly, fairy tale love among people of high social class, for example Duke Orsinos attitude to love, and there is the earthy, realistic and physical love among the middle and lower class, like the love between Sir Toby and Maria. Shakespeare parallels the idealized love with earthy love, and between these are expressed the attitudes to love of Olivia, Viola and Feste. Duke Orsinos opening speech to the play is all four legs that make the throne of courtly love. This paragraph explains the whole of Orsinos personality; very romantic, madly†¦show more content†¦high fantastical) and makes his speech sound very high class. The language in this speech is in blank verse which means that the words do not rhyme there are ten syllables in each line, which is Iambic Pentameter, where the reader stresses on the first syllable then says the next syllable softly and repeats this again and again. The reader should say this speech slowly and steadily with a sonorous effect. The speech also has to have long vowels to keep the rhythm going and to add to the effect. Also in this speech he is showing off with his high class words and the gestures that I imagine he will be using while saying this speech. Orsino is acting as a male drama queen during this part of the play. And all this showing off is very suitable to his rank as a Duke. I personally found the O!s he used were very big parts of his showing off as you can imagine a man lying down on a couch with his hand on his forehead saying that. Orsino also uses words like sicken, die, dying fall, and surfighting which all are words linked to the Romantic image of love where to die is the ultimate sacrifice. This was used a lot in Shakespearean times. This is a classic example of courtly love. Courtly love is a type of love among the people of high social class like knights, dukes, counts, princes, and so on. The word courtly love is from the Italian translationShow MoreRelatedComparison Between Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus and William Shakespeares Twelfth Night872 Words   |  4 Pagesï » ¿Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus versus William Shakespeares Twelfth Night Both Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus and William Shakespeares Twelfth Night deploy many of the same characteristic rhetorical features of 16th century verse dramas. Both plays are characterized by highly elaborate language, usually in iambic pentameter, although different types of verse structures are occasionally used to convey different moods or character types. Both plays combine tragedy and comedy within the