William Shakespeare wrote a satirical comedy, Twelfth Night, in the 16th century. The date is not certain, but it was around the same time he wrote Hamlet. Twelfth Night is widely famous today for being a cross-dressing comedy, meaning that the characters cross-dress. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night plunges into a state of misperception and disordered behavior, the power of love saves the unruly characters from chaos and restores order to their lives and their kingdom. Grief is what begins to hide Viola and she hides like anyone else and falls in love. Finally, the hard-to-told story of gender confusion is explained. In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare wrote this play to prepare the audience for a mood of jovial celebration that consisted of drinking, dancing, and a general sense of self-indulgence. The play develops the tumultuous disorder expected on the occasion of Twelfth Night. Also in the play, Shakespeare showed evidence that he may have been against social norms. He elevated women to roles equal to or greater than the men in the play. He also furthers this thought by giving women intellectual characteristics, placing a woman in a role of power, disguising a woman as a man, showing that woman has equal proclamation to man, and preventing a woman to be prosecuted for a criminal charge. is used as hyperbole in Twelfth Night. Olivia decided to mourn her brother by hiding her face behind a black veil and not seeing anyone for seven years. In Act 1, Scene 1, Valentines says: "The element itself, until seven years of heat, will not see its face in the sight of me, but like a cloister it will walk veiled and water a times a day his room with offerings of eyes. brine - this whole season a...... middle of paper ...... portrait of the gender confusion that was happening at the time. Men dressed as women to play their roles in plays because women could not attend. In this play, women disguise themselves as men to get jobs. The confusion begins when Viola disguises herself as her brother and tries to be him, but her voice is muted and the way she acts shows that she is not a real man. Viola works very hard to try to hide her imagination, she has convinced everyone. Everyone she comes into contact with believes that she is really a man. At the end of the play, she shows her true self and everyone is shocked when she and her brother reunite at the same time. Once the truth is revealed, Orsino shows his love to Viola and Sebastian and Olivia are all already married. Ultimately, the gender confusion was a challenge, but it worked out well and everyone ended up happy..