'How Does Shakespeare Present Aspects of Folly in Twelfth Night?\r'

'All or close of Shakespe atomic number 18s bets contain tactical maneuverfulness and fury and within ‘ twelfth dark on that point atomic number 18 many usages of this. All these examples of folly hyperkinetic syndrome to the overall humour of the play. Throughout ‘ 12th Night the theme of falseness links the plot, characters and picture shows in the play. In Shakespeares day, multitude wanted to go to the t conflagratere and be able to laugh. They extol all plays with an element of comedy, even Shakepeares tragedies comport elements of comedy in them. In Romeo and Juliet on that point are characters seen as crazy or idiotic such as Mer overturnio.\r\n starting of all theres Malvolio, one of the main characters. dashing and pompous, he is easily ridiculed as he is lead into dreadful humiliation at the hands of Fabian, Maria, Sir toby, Feste and Sir Andrew. All the formentioned people bedevil Malvolio bet tired of(p)-judged when Maria writes a garne r to Malvolio expressing her go to sleep for him and signing it from Olivia. Malvolio locomote into the trap and begins to believe that Olivia is madly in discern with him. The letter says: ‘Remember who commanded thy yellow(a) stockings and wished to see thee ever cross gartered. This causes Malvolio to enclothe in yellow stockings and cross garters to proceed and try to woo his lady. On spirit level this is a very diverting scene to watch as Malvolio comes on bemuse on this ridiculous outfit — very memorable.\r\nThe letter besides says: ‘If thou entertainst my get it on, let it go forth in thy smiling thy smiles become thee well. hence in my presence still smile, safe my sweet I prithee. This causes Malvolio to keep a smile on his feel eternally. not only has Malvolio a rather plain smile however since Olivias br early(a) had lately died, Olivia wants everyone to act lamentful around her. She insists on wearing black with a cloak over her fac e. When Malvolio appears with yellow clothing and a huge smile on his face he inevitably looks foolish. Olivia supposes that Malvolio is mad, subject to the heat affecting the brain †‘Midsummer Madness. Malvolio would not have looked so foolish if he had not had certain qualities. His over small nature, pretentiousness, self-centred character and self importance make it simple for the servants and the others involved in the trick to take advantage of these faults and cut Malvolio smooth to size.\r\nThe difference in crystallize between Olivia and Malvolio also adds to the humour and the pampering because in Shakepeares day there would be no possibility of any take of romance between Malvolio and Olivia, Malvolio be a mere steward and Olivia being a wealthy countess, the situation contrast is scarce too immense. When Malvolio reads the letter, Malvolio begins to fall in love with the idea of being in love .\r\nAnother character within one-twelfth Night who adds to the theme of foolishness is patently the fool †a professional jester. Feste has a very important social occasion. He is constantly acting foolishly as his patronage is to solace and entertain his fellowmates. Although he acts same a clown through both(prenominal) of the play, he is probably one of the almost sensible and refreshing characters in the play. In good turn 3, Viola says: ‘This fellow is wise enough to play the fool and to do that well, craves a kind of wit. This is an accurate limning on Feste. He often outsmarts the other characters in the play using his quickwits most of all Malvolio and Olivia. Many other characters are the ‘real fools such as Sir Toby ripple — an ironic sur ring collect to his t shutdownency to drink heavily, Sebastian for marrying Olivia when he that knew her.\r\nOverall, Viola is kinda sensible. Although dressed deal a man, in those days there would be no way that she would be able to obtain service with Orsin o as a woman, so her disguise was quite an ingenious idea. When dress downing to blueer status characters, especially Olivia, Feste almost reverses the roles talking down to Olivia as shown in a chat on page 17. Other characters cannot talk to Olivia in the same way as Feste, as everyone must look up to her and respect her. Olivia tells Malvolio to ‘Take the fool aside and Feste answers ‘Do you not hear fellows? Take away the lady. Feste also often mocks Olivia as he is the only character who can do so. The graduation exercise example of this is Feste telling Olivia she is being foolish, her brother has died and she is in mourning this is the first mention of foolishness in the play:\r\nFeste: steady-going Madonna, why mournst thou?\r\nOlivia: Good Fool, for my brothers death\r\nFeste: I think his mortal is in hell, Madonna.\r\nOlivia: I know his thought is in heaven, fool\r\nFeste: The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brothers soul, being in heaven.\r\n in that location are many other times during the play when aspects of folly come into the characters speeches. Feste in Act 1 says: ‘Better a humorous fool than a foolish wit.\r\nThere are many other examples of role swapping and disguises that also add to the humour of the play. It also makes characters look foolish and humiliates them. The prime example of role swapping is Viola dressing as a man and changing her indistinguishability to become a man called Caesario. This causes much confusion leading to characters being foiled and being made to look foolish. non only did everyone believe that Viola was in fact a man but Olivia actually falls in love with her and not surprisingly feels humiliated and foolish when she discovers that Caesario is actually a woman. Olivia does look foolish although no-one can mock her due to her high status and most people look up to her with respect.\r\nThe language used in the play is not strictly foolish although many of the names are Ã¢â‚¬Ë œfooled with as Viola, Olivia and Malvolio, the main characters, all have names containing the same letters (v,o,l,a and i). Malvolio means ‘ill wishing very fitting to his character. There are other characters names which are amusing such as Sir Toby Belch †ironic as he is a heavy drinker. Aguecheek is a ridiculous name…. And Orsino is named so because Don Virgino Orsino †an Italian nobleman was the guest of honour at the go-ahead night of Twelfth Night so Shakespeare named the Duke in his play after him.\r\nTwelfth Night was once a day of great merrymaking to mark the end of the Christmas festivities. It was the feast of fools and even now, the Christmas season is a time where we all seek pleasure in the form of amusement and folly. Although pen all those years ago, Twelfth Night is still relevant today. A 20th century audience still savor this play today as people still love to laugh and have a good time some of the jokes, although obscure are still p rove amusing today. Even now we love to see people make fools of themselves and the characters we dont ilk to be served with just retribution.\r\n'