Post #3

What will happen in Twelfth Night?

I think that, as Twelfth Night progresses things will start to unravel. I think Viola is going to try to keep her distance from Olivia to prevent any drama. But by trying to avoid Olivia she’ll probably end up making things worse until Olivia finds out Viola isn’t actually a man. Olivia will get mad and more bad things will start to happen. I don’t have any reason to think these things, I’m just guessing. I think a lot of the plays by Shakespeare follow a similar plot. The statement, “How easy is it for the prop-false in women’s waxen hearts to set their forms!” is quite a bold statement. If I understand the statement properly, I think that in a sense it is true. But not for all women, and its just as true for men. If you spend enough time with someone, I think you adapt to him or her and learn how to love them. Either in a romantic way or non-romantic way. You subconsciously learn how to interact with the other person in a manner that allows you to both work together. The fact that Olivia claims to have fallen in love with Viola shows that she clearly doesn’t know Viola very well. Considering she’s not a guy. But at the same time I don’t think that people in general can fall in love with someone without knowing them. So I guess it shows that Viola as a person is relatively gullible.