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1. • • Duke Orsino asks Cesario to woo Olivia because Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, and she refuses to accept any marriage proposals or meet any strangers.
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   Why did Olivia fall in love with Orsino?

   • In Shakespeare’s time, a woman of Olivia’s social status would have been expected to marry to form the right alliances rather than for love. Orsino is described throughout the play as an attractive, wealthy and decent man, but Olivia is confident in her rejection of him. Instead she falls desperately in love with Orsino’s young servant 'Cesario'.

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   How does Orsino relate to Olivia?

   • He relates to Viola in a more honest way than he ever did with Olivia, yet this relationship does not put an end to his longing. Instead, Orsino seems to develop an infatuation with “Cesario” in addition to his unrequited love for Olivia.

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   Who does Olivia fall in love with?

   • Olivia, however, falls in love with ‘Cesario’ instead. She has a twin brother called Sebastian who she believes drowned in the shipwreck she herself survived. The Captain helps her to disguise herself as a young man called ‘Cesario’ and get a job in Orsino’s house. She is resilient and resourceful. She falls in love with Orsino.

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   Will Orsino marry Olivia?

   • When the truth is revealed - that ‘Cesario’ is really Viola and has a twin brother called Sebastian - Orsino finally accepts that he will not marry Olivia. When Viola goes to work for Orsino as ‘Cesario’, Orsino quickly grows to trust her and enjoy her company. She quickly falls in love with him.

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   Who does Olivia marry at the end of the play?

   • Olivia gets caught up in a love triangle with Viola (Cesario) and Orsino. At the end of the play, Olivia marries Sebastian – Viola’s twin brother – and seems happy to accept him as her husband when she realises that he is not Cesario. At the start of the play, Olivia is mourning her brother.

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   What happens at the start of the play Olivia?

   • Click through the slideshow to see Olivia’s key moments At the start of the play, Olivia, played in these images by the actress Aislín McGuckin, is mourning the death of her brother. Orsino has declared his love for her, but she refuses to see any visitors. Orsino sends Cesario (Viola) to take romantic messages to Olivia.

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   Orsino declares his love for Olivia at the beginning of the play and continues to pursue her even though she is very clear that she does not love him. O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, / Methought she purged the air of pestilence.

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   Why does Malvolio believe Olivia is in love with him? What is the significance of Malvolio wearing yellow cross-gartered stockings? Why does Sebastian agree to marry Olivia?

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   Orsino is described throughout the play as an attractive, wealthy and decent man, but Olivia is confident in her rejection of him. Instead she falls desperately in love with Orsino’s young servant 'Cesario'. A key question in exploring the character of Olivia is: Why is Olivia attracted to 'Cesario', not Orsino?

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   Why doesn't Olivia love Orsino in Twelfth Night? Olivia can be forgiven for not loving Orsino. She simply doesn't have the time for it, what with her spending most days mourning her...

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   Olivia quickly falls in love with Cesario (Viola) and wants to have a relationship with him. At the end of the play, Olivia marries Viola’s twin Sebastian in a case of mistaken identity .

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   However, when she meets Cesario (Viola in her male costume) she falls in love and forgets these oaths. Olivia's mourning for her brother therefore resembles Orsino's love-melancholy: it seems more like a performance than a real, deeply felt emotion.

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    At the beginning of the play Orsino is obsessed by his unrequited love for Olivia. However, in the final scene, when Orsino discovers that Cesario is in fact the woman, Viola —and that Olivia has already married Viola's twin brother, Sebastian —he quickly proposes to Viola .