Orsino and Viola become closer and Orsino confides in Viola to take love messages to Olivia. While serving the Duke, Viola falls in love with him but can’t pursue the love because Orsino believes that she is a man.
Viola, who disguises herself as a man, Cesario, starts to work at Orsino’s house. In this play, Duke Orsino falls in love with Olivia but she swears off men while she is mourning the loss of her brother. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night uses dramatic irony, imagery, and characterization to suggest that homosexuality is not morally incorrect.ĭon't use plagiarized sources. Her argument that homoerotic relations are prevalent in Twelfth Night is corroborated by the relationships of Duke Orsino and Cesario as well as Viola and Olivia. Critics of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, such as Jami Ake in her article Glimpsing a ‘Lesbian’ Poetics in Twelfth Night, often focus on the prevalence of homosexual relations between characters in this post-Renaissance time period.
Even though society was against the idea of homosexuality, Shakespeare explores the concept that homosexuality is not morally incorrect and it is an innate characteristic that one does not choose instead, it is a characteristic that you are born with and discover about yourself as time goes on. However, today’s society is far more progressive than Medieval England where homosexuality was strictly frowned upon by law, and perpetrators received a wide variety of severe punishments, ranging from exile to the death sentence. While nations are making progress towards equal rights, seventy-three countries still view same-sex relations as illegal. In modern society, homosexuality is a highly controversial topic.
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