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Essay / Viola as Cesario faces the greatest challenges of the...
The play Twelfth Night, while largely a comedy, has its share of challenges and obstacles that its characters face. confronted throughout the plot. These revolve around love, honor, death and the loss of loved ones. However, one character seems to me to have faced the most difficult and trying challenges, but emerged with his pride and dignity intact. She coped well with all the problems thrown at her with a quiet resilience well beyond her years and deserves our admiration. Alto as Cesario faced the most challenges in the play. It almost seems that fate never leaves her alone, since her difficulties begin as soon as we are introduced to her, stranded on the coasts of Illyria after having barely survived a shipwreck. Alone in a foreign country with her only parent, her twin brother Sebastian who is believed to be dead, she is left to fend for herself for the rest of her days, or so it seems. For any young woman, this would be a devastating situation. be thrown away, and the viola was no exception. In addition to having to deal with the loss of her brother, she also had to find a way to survive in Illyria. Perhaps this is where the resilience of Viola's nature first appears: instead of breaking down and bitterly mourning the death of her beloved, she immediately hatches a plan to disguise herself as a man and serve Duke Orsino. But unfortunately for Viola, fate was not on her side, and this disguise that was supposed to help her turned out to be a greater burden in time to come. Complications also arose when Via fell in love with her master, Duke Orsino, while at the same time she had love. Orsino's interest, Countess Olivia, trying to woo her. This placed Viola in an extremely difficult and complex situation: on the one hand, she loved the Duke and would have liked to do everything she could to win his heart. But as she was his servant, she was obliged to serve him and help him win Olivia's hand. What was a poor girl to do? She remained confused, knowing that whatever she did would end up hurting someone. Her kind and sensitive nature allowed her to sympathize with Olivia, and she declares "what thrifty sighs poor Olivia will heave". !'.