Malvolio in Twelfth Night
- Created by: nittyniz
- Created on: 29-04-21 12:33
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- Malvolio
- I will be revenged on the whole pack of you
- Then exits - too dark for happy ending onstage, similar to ending of The Merchant of Venice - Shylock leaves
- You will be the...judge (Olivia)
- Foreshadows revenge/vindication
- ...notoriously abused... (Olivia)
- Calls Feste a 'barren rascal' as he is trying to keep his job with Olivia
- Malvolio, you are sick of self-love (Olivia)
- Malcontent
- Typically in Jacobean tragedies
- Outsider, comments on action
- Political and dramatic
- Dissatisfaction with Machiavellian atmosphere of play
- Unhappy character
- IN ESSAYS talk as a construct of Shakespeare, not as a person
- Yellow stockings - serving class colour - humour
- Puritanism
- Wars, end of Elizabethan era, beginning WS tragedies
- Does the prank go too far?
- Is Malvolio ever in the right?
- Spoils festival atmosphere by stopping Toby and other's drinking and singing
- Is Malvolio ever in the right?
- Modern vs. contemporary audiences
- Disguise - letter, Sir Topas, lies
- Attitudes to mental illness
- Social class - head steward
- Marriage
- ...madman...
- Dangers of social ambition, disorder
- Love considered a sort of madness, leads to melancholy
- ...distempered appetite...
- I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I willbaffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance,I will be point-device the very man.
- ...idle shallow things... (Malvolio on the other servants)
- I will be revenged on the whole pack of you
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