Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night revolves around a love triangle that continually twists and turns like a roller coaster, throwing emotions here and there . The characters love each other, but common love is absent throughout the work. Then, another character enters the scene and not only confuses everyone, bringing with it chaos that presents many different themes throughout the show. Along with the emotional turmoil, each character has their own problems and difficulties that they must deal with, but which also affect other characters at the same time. Richard Henze refers to the play as a "vindication of romance, a depreciation of romance... a 'subtle portrayal of the psychology of love,' a play about unrequited love... a morality play about the excess of appetite..." ( Henze 4) On the other hand, LG Salingar questions all observations about Twelfth Night, asking whether the observations about the opera are actually true. Shakespeare touches on the theme of love, but emphasizes the pain and suffering it causes a person, showing the dark and sad side of a usually happy thought. the pain and suffering of love highlighted by Shakespeare. Attacked by the pain of the rejection of the person he loves, each of the characters suffers from the rejection, connecting the characters 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 such as Duke Orsino, Lady Olivia, and Viola/Cesario, along with the play's minor characters, were the main victims, but also the culprits, of the pain and suffering emphasized by Shakespeare. Duke Orsino loves Lad.... .. middle of the page ......where in the rhythm of the speech, which is fast, variable and perhaps even jerky. The rapidity of Orsino's first speech “suggests his passion, especially because, as Duke, he should speak with dignified deliberation. This pacing of his speech with these inconsistencies helps reinforce the pain Orsino feels due to Olivia's rejection. Works CitedDraper, John William. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Hearing. 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, L. G. “The Drawing of Twelfth Night.” JSTOR, 1958. Web. 19 February 2014.Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, or whatever. Ed. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperback, 2009. Print.