Malvolio in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
The problem involving Malvolio in Twelfth Night has been known for a
long time but still very difficult. The gist of it is this. A lot of
modern readers or spectators feel that the way in which Malvolio is
treated is extremely bad. We expect him to become the centre of
humour; we know that in the business of comedy, a very puritanical and
rather joyless figure is likely to receive comedic humiliation; but in
this case the humiliation that Malvolio gets, seems protracted and
harsh. The harshness of Malvolio's treatment seemed to also have a
negative effect on the ending, his attitude seemed to cloud the joyful
atmosphere.
We could argue that Malvolio bought this mistreatment on himself and
perhaps deserved it after his bad treatment of the other characters;
In some way Malvolio thought that he had superiority over Feste and as
a result treated him unsympathetically and intolerantly. He also put
Feste down repeatedly.
Malvolio was also a killjoy and during the play ...
Friar Lawrence in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet "We still have known thee for a holy man"
In William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Malvolio is considered an outcast by almost everyone in the play. He doesn’t act the same way that any of the other characters act, in that he doesn’t participate in any of their activities, he enforces rules that the others could care less about, and he is just overall a socially awkward guy. Malvolio not only claims to adhere to the rules of the household himself, but uses his relations with Olivia to try and help make the others follow the rules as well. This upsets certain characters more than others. For instance Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria find his behavior particularly detestable. But Malvolio’s strict coherence to the rules allows him to have a rather high position in Olivia’s household. While Malvolio may be considered a social outcast to most of the characters in the play, Olivia considers Malvolio to be a very trusted steward of her household. For these reasons Malvolio is not only a social outcast, but an outcast that Shakespeare uses to keep people interested in his play.
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when he gets bored of it then he tells him to stop, just like that.
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something that he would not notice or be able to get out of if he did
Andrew is funny, it is not intentional. His faults include a lack of wit, a
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the play its funny to watch him fall for Maria’s trick and make a fool