In some cases appearance and gender can tell everything about what kind of a person someone is. Gender plays an important role in Twelfth Night because characters are judged very much by their gender. Disguises in this play are very important also. Sometimes appearance can affect the way someone acts. The disguises and the mixing of genders in this play causes there to be a few cases where characters mistake other characters for someone that they are not. Gender and appearance play an important role in this play and can affect the way a person acts and the way a person is portrayed.

The gender of a person in Twelfth Night is an important theme throughout the play. As we know, in this play Viola changes her appearance to that of a man named Cesario. This change creates a...