twelfth night : shakespeare

There is a theme of foolish love in the book. Multiple characters are in love with the idea of love . The characters don't really seem to care about who they marry as long as they are marrying someone.

Olivia latches onto the first attractive person who shows her any affection. viola sympathises with her grief . In the entire story that moment with viola really was the only time somebody was kind to Olivia without any ulterior motive . Though Olivia is shallow and sometimes inconsiderate she shows multiple times that she really cares about sir Toby and Malvolio even though she knows Malvolio is a little insane.

Duke Orsino wants to be in love .He listens to love songs and he courts a girl who can not reciprocate his feelings  and who he never sees. he wants Olivia to love him  back but as soon as anyone else (viola) shows affection towards him he marrys her.

Teens today also have a similar mind set where the end all be all is to be in a relation ship and they usually don't care who its with. Some middle school kids will say they don't want to be in a  relationship but as soon as somebody shows them affection or asks them out they are "in love" with that person who before they asked them out meant nothing to them.