In the end, Viola gives herself the choice: either enter Illyria as a woman, or disguise herself as a man named Cesario where she will live in servitude for the duke. By giving herself a choice, Viola transcends the traditional understanding of gender but also of love from a humanist perspective by denying her societal expectations as a 17th century woman. At the beginning of the play, Viola decides to “conceal” her sex under her own pretenses: “For such disguise will eventually become the form of my intention” (Shakespeare 1192). Her reasoning and determinism to disguise herself as a man helps to revolutionize the concept of love through the development of Viola's character throughout the play where she "falls in love" with the character of Orensio, who is the Duke for which it serves. Although Viola was never able to determine that her "destiny" was to fall in love with Orsensio, her choice at the start of the first act helped determine her unorthodox path that led her to not only fall in love with someone one beyond his social class in the form of a disguised character. boy but also defines a different method of marriage in the years 1600