Twelfth Night
Discuss Viola's use of her disguise in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
After the shipwreck, Viola resolves to make the best of her situation and be taken into Orsino's service. As a young eunuch named Cesario, she will be safe from male attentions. Viola is quickly taken into Orsino's confidence, and he tells her all the secrets of his heart; she is entrusted with wooing Olivia, though Olivia herself falls for Viola as Cesario. Viola herself is in love with Orsino, though she cannot admit this; she does succeed in gaining Orsino's affections, however, and gets him to be a more honest, less self-centered person.
Twelfth Night