In the play Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare many characters experience emotional pain. The pain that a character named Olivia feels is the death of her brother, which makes her cry. Malvolio, Olivia's steward, is caught up in the emotional pain caused by humiliation, which occurs more than once in this play. Finally, many characters struggle with the feeling of unrequited love. Even though Shakespeare wrote it as a comedy, there was still a great deal of emotional pain throughout. At the beginning of this play Shakespeare introduces us to a character named Olivia. Olivia is an extremely wealthy countess, who is still heartbroken over losing her brother to the plague. Sir Toby: “What plague does my niece mean to take her brother's death so? I'm sure he worries about the enemy of life." (Act 1, scene 3, lines 1-2) From this line Shakespeare lets the reader/audience know that Sir Toby is his uncle, because he is referring to Olivia having his niece. The reader/audience will also understand that Olivia's brother died of the plague. Festivities: “Good Madonna, why are you crying?” Olivia: “Good fool, for the death of my brothers.” (Act 1, scene 5, lines 59-60) Feste is a jester who serves Olivia and is brought into this scene to cheer her up, but from these quotes we see evidence that he is mourning his brother. Valentine: "The element of himself, until seven years of heat, will not see his face in broad view, but like a claistress, will walk veiled, and will water once a day his chamber roundWith brine that offends the eyes: all this for the dead love of SeasonA's brother, which she would keep fresh and lasting in her sad memory.” (Act 1, scene 1, 26-32) Valentine was not aloud to see Olivia, but she was told that Olivia would go to m...... middle of paper ......ino. Viola is Orsino's messenger and has to spend her time telling Olivia how much Orsino loves her; because the man she loves loves someone else. On many occasions Viola cleverly lets Orsino know that she loves him, but he never really understands: “What women owe to the love of men is too good as true of heart as we. My father had a daughter and loved a man, as perhaps it would be, if I were a woman, I would, lordship” (Act 2, scene 4, lines 102-107). Viola is really saying that she knows the way women can love men. She also says "My father had a daughter who loved a man", since her name is Cesario who is a male Orsino does not realize that the daughter is actually her, and the man is Orsino. Imagine how much pain these characters are going through. Each of them loves someone and cannot be loved back.