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- Orsino reacts to the news that Cesario and Olivia have apparently been married (it is, of course, actually Sebastian who married Olivia). At this point, Orsino is so hurt and betrayed that he stops being angry and becomes sad and resigned. He accepts the marriage, but banishes the couple so that he does not have to see them.
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This interest, along with Orsino’s general fickleness, helps explain why he abandons Olivia in favor of marrying Viola in the play’s final moments. Orsino’s lack of genuine emotion ultimately allows the narrative to resolve quickly and neatly.
Olivia sends Cesario back to Orsino to tell him that Olivia still does not love him and never will. But she tells the young man to come back, if he wishes, and speak to her again about “how he [Orsino] takes it” (I.v. 252). Then, after Cesario leaves, she sends Malvolio after him with a ring—a token of her attraction to Cesario—that she ...
Love forces her to abandon the possibility of a very attractive marriage to one who is her social equal and makes her chase and pursue (in the way that she has made Orsino pursue her) Cesario...
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?
Orsino, angry at Cesario’s apparent betrayal of him, threatens to carry Cesario off and kill him. Viola, resigned, prepares to go with Orsino to her death and says that she loves only him. Olivia is shocked, believing that her new spouse is betraying her.
At the beginning of the play, she has rejected both Orsino and her ridiculous suitor, Sir Andrew Aguecheek. In mourning for her recently deceased brother, she has vowed not to receive any man, or to go outside, for seven years.
Valentine tells Orsino in Act 1, Scene 1 that Olivia is uninterested in Orsino's romantic feelings for her, and that she doesn’t even bother to read the letters he sends expressing his devotion to...
