Appearance vs. Reality in Twelfth Night Essay

Theme of Appearance vs Reality is pervasive throughout the play and its variant facets are manifested through various thematic expressions. At the very write down of the play, the most subtle aspect of Appreance vs Reality is presented in the form of Orsinos conviction of love for Olivia. He becomes a victim to fictitious noble-mindedness as he has not seen Olivia and does not have a gleam in three months (the course of the play).Shakespeare depicts Orsino as a sentimental yellowish brown who suffers from the sweet pangs (II.4.16) of love and ecstasy that have no real existence. alternatively of regain the reality of his passion and to find a remedy, he over again goes for a solution that is deceptive. In the original two scene of the first Act, he yearns for music to cure his sentimentality. Undoubtedly Orsino has reverted himself into the realm of illusory serviceman by the caprices of his imagination.Shakespeare has juxtaposed the Dukes unadulterated distress for Cesarios child with Orsinos fictitious idealism. He implies that behind all the fake sentimentalities of sanctimoniousness there is a genuine individual who has genuine concerns. But revealing of another deception i.e. unearthing that Cesario is a woman, helps him to cast away(p) his own legal opinion in way and he acknowledges the speciousness of his apparent made-up meat for Olivia.Orsino does not fell a prey to appearance (instead of reality) due to any(prenominal) inherent flaw in his personality or his psychological complexities however it is a result of his lack of suffiecient experience in the real initiation especially in the amorous affairs. Same is the case with Olivia whi looks for apprence instead of locating the reality o his passions for Orsino.But Shakespeare juxtaposes them with certain other minor characters give care Molvolio who do not acknowledge the reality and never cast away their belief in appearance till the end of the play whereas Orsine and Olivia learn s that appearance is always deceptive and becomes realist at the end of the play..