Twelfth Night, respectively the fool and the mistaken identity. The first part of the analysis will consider the division of the fool and its contribution to the comic effect. The second part will consider the mistaken identity and how it influences the comedy. ‘Fool’ is one of the important elements in Shakespeare’s comedy, creating comic effects. From act 3 scene 4 to act 4 scene 3, there are 4 fools, respectively Feste, Malvolio, Toby and Andrew. Feste is a ‘licensed fool’ due to his costume. On
example of hostile sentiment toward one another, Shakespeare utilizes Malvolio’s brush with Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Feste during a drunken evening. In the midst of their revelries and disruptive behavior, Malvolio enters angrily to scold the men for being obnoxious while Olivia tries to sleep. Malvolio
In Shakespeare’s comedy, Twelfth Night, many characters are behave foolishly or fool one another. The character Feste is a professional fool, a jester for Olivia’s household. Feste’s occupation involves singing, joking, and dancing. Many of the jesters in Shakespeare’s plays offer comedic relief. Though Feste is an excellent jester and has a great way with words, he quickly reveals that he isn’t a fool. As Feste interacts with many of the characters in the play he offers commentary and intelligent
not one that a strict Puritan like Malvolio should be saying. Malvolio is talking about all the things he would be and do if he married Olivia. Puritans were against all things frivolous and flippant. Here Malvolio is daydreaming about bossing Sir Toby around and becoming a more educated and respected person. A Puritan should not wish these things. Malvolio makes a mockery of the people of his religion. Shakespeare may have done this to poke fun at the Puritans, who during his time period would have
reversal of social roles which would associate the period with chaos, which is a major theme in the play. For example, Feste the fool is able to outwit those of a higher status than him, instead of it being, conventionally, the other way around. Malvolio acts as the
place in order to give the reader a detailed and descriptive idea of what is going on. In the case of Twelfth Night, drowning is used to show a loss of perspective through the submersion of excess. Twelfth Night is a captivating play about characters who are metaphorically drowning in the surplus of their wants. They are so submersed that they cannot see past their own selfish desires. The metaphor of drowning is one of the central reoccurring themes of the play. The idea of drowning connects the character’s
actions before acting. Harming others to satisfy one’s self is not ethical; in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Malvolio, Viola, and Feste learn this in many ways. Malvolio behaves in a way that causes others to despise him. He hates everything, and everyone ― he criticizes anything
dependent upon the Fool?’ In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, we are presented with various characters and plots which supply the play with comedic elements due to the role they play. The comedy of Twelfth Night is predominantly stemmed from the ‘foolish’ characters and the scenarios they are involved in. Write here about traditional definition of fool etc. Almost every character in Twelfth Night is portrayed as a fool in some sense, and there are two main categories of fools, the ‘Natural Fool’ and the ‘Artificial
In Act One of ‘Twelfth Night’, Shakespeare introduces three of the protagonists. Lady Olivia, presented as a veiled cloistress who is grief stricken, is mocked for her choice of connections with Feste, a quick witted fool who is portrayed in contrast to his actions. Shakespeare also presents to us, Viola, first as a beautiful, young madam and then as a loyal eunuch; she adds a sense of mistaken identity to the play and emphasises the dramatic irony created. Shakespeare utilises an assortment of techniques
repeatedly give way to a different mode of perceiving the world” (Greenblatt 1187). This is exactly what happens when a closer look is given to the way Shakespeare addresses the concepts of gender and morality in the play. The audience of the day who accepted a distinct division of gender into masculinity and femininity – based on sex – and of morality based on absolute good and bad was given a different interpretation of these taken-for-granted definitions. The culture of 17th century England