The play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare is a comedy with the ongoing theme of love. In the show we see that none of the relationships that develop are considered normal, or what we call true love because true love has no reason, it often just happens without knowing it. However, if you consider the relationships in this play, you can see that the characters are all looking for love or have a reason to find it. For example, Malvolio needs Olivia's love because in this way he can obtain status and wealth, Sir Andrew on the other hand wants Olivia's love because this is what everyone has convinced him to think. Duke however wants love in general because he is in love with the idea of love and uses Olivia as a face to the idea of love even though he has never had a real conversation with her. We see that these relationships are not considered true love especially when compared to Viola's love for Orsino. Twelfth Night presents us with a pompous administrator who finds himself in love with Olivia, however this love is not true in case Malvolio only wants...
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