Sir Toby’s Characteristics
Betrayal and anger radiate from Sir Toby’s presence in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Sir Toby’s personality shines throughout the performance showing many traits that he has including being manipulative and cruel. In the novel it is obvious to see that he is a very unkind and childish human being. In the Twelfth Night Sir Toby plays an important role throughout the story.
Sir Toby demonstrates cruel behavior. After he gulled Malvolio into making a fool of himself, he afterwards called him crazy and possessed, then finally he said “Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound.”(Act III scene iiii). So to make matters worse he locked him up. After his fooling of Sir Andrew he expressed his true feelings towards him by saying that he was "an ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave; a thin-faced knave, a gull."(Act V Scene i). This is very unruly thing to say about a close friend.** He shares this trait in the story because every time he was …show more content…
His ‘best friend’ Sir Andrew is a gullible man. For self enjoyment he manipulates him throughout the play. For example, he convinced him to fight Cesario but he lied to Cesario saying “He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier and but he is a devil in private brawl: souls and bodies hath he divorced three”(Act III Scene iv).Then he told Sir Andrew that Cesario “Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not seen such firago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal motion, that it is inevitable.” (Act III scene iv) . This is untrue because they didn’t cross swords. He also helped in the gulling of Malvolio as he tricked him into thinking that Olivia loves him and for him to wear cross-gartered clothing which Olivia despises. The letter stated “Remember who commended thy yellow stockings and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered.”(Act II Scene v) Sir Toby has this trait because many times in the play he said he
Betrayal and anger radiate from Sir Toby’s presence in Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare. Sir Toby’s personality shines throughout the performance showing many traits that he has including being manipulative and cruel. In the novel it is obvious to see that he is a very unkind and childish human being. In the Twelfth Night Sir Toby plays an important role throughout the story.
Sir Toby demonstrates cruel behavior. After he gulled Malvolio into making a fool of himself, he afterwards called him crazy and possessed, then finally he said “Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound.”(Act III scene iiii). So to make matters worse he locked him up. After his fooling of Sir Andrew he expressed his true feelings towards him by saying that he was "an ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave; a thin-faced knave, a gull."(Act V Scene i). This is very unruly thing to say about a close friend.** He shares this trait in the story because every time he was …show more content…
His ‘best friend’ Sir Andrew is a gullible man. For self enjoyment he manipulates him throughout the play. For example, he convinced him to fight Cesario but he lied to Cesario saying “He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier and but he is a devil in private brawl: souls and bodies hath he divorced three”(Act III Scene iv).Then he told Sir Andrew that Cesario “Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not seen such firago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal motion, that it is inevitable.” (Act III scene iv) . This is untrue because they didn’t cross swords. He also helped in the gulling of Malvolio as he tricked him into thinking that Olivia loves him and for him to wear cross-gartered clothing which Olivia despises. The letter stated “Remember who commended thy yellow stockings and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered.”(Act II Scene v) Sir Toby has this trait because many times in the play he said he