Viola : character in Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night.
... drama of which He himself is the stage, the theatre, the scenery, the actors and the acting. He is the poet Shakespeare watching Desdemona & Othello, Hamlet & the murderous Uncle, Rosalind & Jacques & Viola and all the other hundred multiplicities of himself acting & talking & rejoicing & suffering, all Himself & yet not himself, who sits there a silent witness, their Creator who has no part in their actions ...
... which He himself is the stage, the theatre, the scenery, the actors and the acting. He is the poet Shakespeare watching Desdemona and Othello, Hamlet and the murderous Uncle, Rosalind and Jacques and Viola, and all the other hundred multiplicities of himself acting and talking and rejoicing and suffering, all himself and yet not himself, who sits there a silent witness, their Creator who has no part in ...
... mutually illuminating images in a vivid complexity in which nothing is superfluous or awkward but everything apt and alive in conveying the poet's prayer that the verse to which his love for the child Viola Meynell had given substance and shape might survive his own death and, finding a place in the devoted heart of the man to whom she would belong in marriage, deliver its message to her most intensely ...
... phenomenal Evolution, which He guides and governs. He is then Isha, the Lord or Ruler. To use a human parallel, Shakespeare pouring himself out in a hundred names and forms, Desdemona, Othello, Iago, Viola, Rosalind, Macbeth, Hamlet, Lear, Cymbeline is using his power of Avidya to become the lord and ruler of a wonderful imaginary world. Shakespeare putting aside his works and returning to his own single ...
... ladies can do very well, but someone like me cannot do. The absence of servants hangs like a Damocles' sword on my head, and yesterday, it came very near falling on me. I have a small page boy, not Viola, by any means, yet whom my friend Sudha found very sweet! But he didn't turn up yesterday! And it was raining cats and dogs, so I could not go out and find a servant. What to do? So my subconscient ...
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