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Horace once said that literature should be “dulce et utile,” good and useful. The literature of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries has illustrated this principle by teaching us life lessons, especially lessons about love. One of the best authors from the seventeenth century to teach us about love is William Shakespeare. In many of his writings Shakespeare teaches us about the many forms of love. Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” is one of the many literary works that teach us lessons about loves many forms. We see at least three forms of love in “Twelfth Night,” we see true love, the love that forms friendships and self love as well as the interconnection between these forms of love. Shakespeare also teaches that love is not always as direct and visible as we would like it to be.
True love is the love of one person who has a well intentioned feeling of attraction for another, but is sometimes complicated by the blinding of untrue love. “Twelfth Night” shows us that these complications can be overcome, as the love triangles that are formed throughout the play are in the end resolved. There is true love of the romantic type between Viola and Orsino which is complicated by the fact that Orsino thinks that he loves Olivia and that he knows Viola as Cesario. ... In the beginning Viola’s love for Orsino is complicated by Orsino’s love for Olivia, which is in turn complicated by Olivia’s love for Cesario.
Approximate Word count = 1186
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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