COMPARISON OF TWELFTH NIGHT WITH THE DON JUAN

Comparison of Twelfth Night with the Don Juan

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Comparison of Twelfth Night with the Don Juan

Introduction

William Shakespeare was an English dramatic poet. We cannot say that Shakespeare was the progenitor of a new branch in the genre of comedy, but he never went off track comedy characters. If his comedy involved a woman, inside it necessarily raging fire, she wants to decide their own destiny and will fight for it, and no matter how humble in appearance, this woman did not seem like the fire (Pierce 118-132).

However, the man in Shakespeare's either a drunk or a rake or a joker or a villain, but never phlegmatic. His characters are never boring; they either attract or repel your characters, but do not leave anyone indifferent. According to Smith (2011), their characters are just teeming with a variety of disabilities, but they speak to the audience is so simple and familiar language to him that I have to find myself among them, and therefore Shakespeare is not just amuses people, he puts in his comedies serious questions that the viewer must be answer himself.

In the times of Shakespeare, comedies served as a restoration of order into the world owing that those comedies inclined and got into about every public of the time. Literary comedies worked as a restoration of order back in that time. While, Tragedy can be described as more shocking, so in this paper we have an interesting mixture in these two plays; “twelfth night” and “Don Juan”. These both enter the literary nucleus of tragi-comedies. The difference is that Don Juan is a satiric tragi-comedy. Moreover, this paper also compares these two plays of Shakespeare.

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night is one of the plays of comic style of the great English playwright William Shakespeare. Its title refers to the English cultural tradition of the twelfth night after Christmas festivities, Epiphany in Christian communities (Wilson 209-226).

Twelfth Night is the general ineptitude in dealing with the love that makes the characters to live a series of comic misunderstandings, lined up in a happy ending in a night of partying. No wonder, the text was written and staged in 1602 at the height of the demand for English comedies (Wilson 209-226).

Tradition says that the night of kings is the 12th night after Christmas and ends the Christmas festivities that in the times of Queen Elizabeth 1st, earned playful connotations, where everyone exchanged gifts. Shakespeare takes advantage of the circumstance previously fun to weave a web of forbidden love and exchanges of identity (Kelly 235-236).

The story focuses on the adventures of twins, Viola and Sebastian, separated by a sea disaster and unaware of their mutual fate. Trying to survive in the new reality entails a series of hilarious misunderstandings, provoking at the same time for deep reflection on identity and the trappings of love illusions (Wilson 209-226).

Shakespeare in “Twelfth Night” scary, confusing already the title of drama. In the original piece, which was ...