![]() ![]() Olivia’s attraction for Cesario becomes so great that when she encounters her twin brother, he immediately and capriciously proposes marriage to him never mind that, at the time she thought he was the type of a man who had been desperately courting her. Olivia perceives Cesario, as an attractive young man when she interacts with him as “he” delivers messages from Orsini (Shakespeare 20). Viola had initially changed her gender identity in the hope that she stood a better chance of getting a job as a man, she did this by dressing, carrying herself and even trying to talk like a man (Lamb 12). Olivia, on the other hand, falls in love with Cesario, whom she assumes is a man and thus the highly intricate love triangle is created. ![]() Voila wh,o arrives in the city after a shipwreck pretends to be a man “Cesario,” but ends up falling in love with Duke Orsini who is in love with Olivia. The plot is centered on the confusion that characterizes the play action as various characters disguise themselves and assume genthe der role of the opposite sex. ![]() The result is a great deal of sexual confusion and a bizarre love triangle, evidently Shakespeare chooses to dress his protagonist as a man with the intention of proving the delusional and manipulative nature of romantic attraction (Shakespeare 23). ![]()
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