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He is in love with Olivia
- Olivia is friends with: Maria - her lady-in-waiting Orsino - he is in love with Olivia
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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.
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.
Orsino is sad because he loves Olivia but she does not return his feelings. He employs a man called Cesario to pass his messages to Olivia, unaware that Cesario is actually a woman called...
Orsino recognizes in Olivia the successful pseudo-narcissist that he used to be but is no longer, because of Olivia. Orsino rightly interprets his relationship to this particular woman as a...
Duke Orsino begins the Shakespeare's Twelfth Night pining for Lady Olivia, who will not let him woo her because she is in mourning for her brother. For her part, Olivia's grief is quickly put...
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 .
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?
