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Point-CounterPoint in Twelfth Night

Shakespeare's romantic comedy Twelfth Night employs the literary device known as counterpoint to accent the dramatic tension in the plot. Counterpoint is a technique of contrasting two distinctly different items against one another, creating conflicts between opposing sides. However, this conflict does not imply a clashing, destructive dissonance; instead, counterpoint leads to a ‘harmonic resonation' between characters, as the interactions between two opposing personalities lead to plot and character development. An analogy in this case may be made to a structured, academic debate: one side takes a position, the other takes the counter-position. In the end, the knowledge of each participant is increased as he is forced to adapt his ideas to that of his opponent. Twelfth Night employs counterpoint in three primary ways: the contrast between the themes of happiness and misfortune , the dichotomy of high comedy versus low comedy, and the......

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