Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night revolves around a love triangle that continually takes twists and turns like a roller coaster, throwing emotions here and there. The characters love each other, but common love is absent throughout the play. Then another character enters the scene and not only confuses everyone, bringing with him chaos which presents many different themes throughout the play. Along with the emotional turmoil, each character has their own issues and difficulties that they must deal with, but which also affect the other characters at the same time. Richard Henze refers to the play as "a vindication of romance, a depreciation of romance... a 'subtle depiction of the psychology of love,' a play about "unrequited love"... a moral comedy about superabundance of appetite…” (Henze 4) On the other hand, LG Salingar questions all the remarks about Twelfth Night, wondering if the remarks about the play are actually true. Shakespeare addresses the theme of love, but emphasizes the pain and suffering it causes in a person, showing a dark and gloomy side of a usually happy thought. In the play, the characters play a vital role in showing the theme as those inflicted upon it. the pain and suffering of love that Shakespeare highlighted. Attacked with pain by the rejection of the one he loves, each of the characters suffers from the rejection, linking them to the theme that Shakespeare presented in the play. These links to the theme also connect the characters to each other at the same time. Characters like Duke Orsino, Lady Olivia, and Viola/Cesario, as well as the minor characters in the play, were the main victims, but also the perpetrators, of the pain and suffering highlighted by Shakespeare. Duke Orsino likes Lad.... ... middle of paper ......ove in the tempo of the speech, which is fast, variable and perhaps even jerky. The speed of Orsino's first speech "suggests his passion, especially since as duke he must speak with dignified deliberation." This rhythm of his speech with these inconsistencies helps to reinforce the pain that Orsino feels because of Olivia's rejection. Works CitedDraper, John William. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Audience. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1950. Print. Henze, Richard. “Twelfth Night: Free Disposition on the Sea of ​​Love.” The Sewanee Review 83.2 (1975): 267-283. The Johns Hopkins University Press, January 11, 2011. Web. February 19, 2014. Salingar, LG “The Conception of Twelfth Night.” JSTOR, 1958. The web. February 19, 2014. Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, or whatever you want. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009. Printed.