Viola in the Twelfth Night
Viola's Character in Relation to the Animus Development and Its 4 Stages
The animus theory of Jung suggests that, though females' conscious ego usually relates to their biological gender, masculine traits stifle because Continue Reading...
The play also opens with Orsino hopelessly in love with Olivia. Olivia, however, is consumed with grief for her brother, and rebuffs Orsino's attempts to woo her. For the play to reach its conclusion, which has the two of them marrying others, it f Continue Reading...
This critic argues that plays such as Twelfth Night, Midsummer Nights Dream, and as You Like it merely serve to assert masculine authority and to rebuff practices like cross-dressing. Besides, cross-dressing threatened the social order and the gende Continue Reading...