Feste

big misunderstanding. So if this so called madness throughout the whole play was really just confusion and miscommunication between everyone, then do we really know if madness was truly there? The answer is yes, everyone in that play was at least a little mad. Orsino was madly in love with someone who did not love him back; Malvolio’s ambitions drove him mad; Olivia fell in love with the servant of her caller; Antonio blindly followed a stranger; Viola pretended to be a man for the months; and Sebastian married a woman who believed he was someone else. Just about everyone in Twelfth Night was at least a little mad. In fact the sanest person in the whole play is probably the fool Feste, who stated to Malvolio, “you are mad indeed, if you be no better in your wits than a fool,” (149). Unlike the others Feste showed great wit throughout the entirety of the play, after all one must be “wise enough to play the fool,”…

anxious demeanor, Sir Toby displays a more extemporaneous outlook on life. Sir Toby Belch possesses countless sanguineous mannerisms that also affect the comedy relief of Twelfth Night. Sir Toby is impulsive, for instance, when Malvolio was irritating…

Lisa Wolpe, stuck to the same “brilliant” script that Shakespeare had laid out in 1601. It is to my knowledge that the there were relatively no changes to the script minus a few altercations to the songs that Feste the fool had sung. Contrarily, I do not feel that a phenomenal job was done in the directing. There seemed to be an overpowering concept of comedy. During scenes consisting of all the fools getting drunk and partying, there was lots of movement, and happenings that were in fact…

play especially applies for Feste, the Feste, whom has an obligation is to sing for the nobilities. Majority of the singing in the play are done by Feste. Although most of the songs are “called for”, upon someone else’s request, they still reflect Feste's personalities in a unique way by contrasting with the personality he shows when he’s not performing. Moreover, from “Come Away, Come Away Death” to “Hold My Peace, Thou Knaves”, the songs Feste sings have various colors in them. Some songs…

following a class in 17th Century Italy. The two characters of Feste the fool, and Viola (disguised as Cesario) have the ability to move freely throughout different classes due to both of their ‘disguises’. These two personalities exhibit signs of clairvoyance, knowledge beyond expectation, as well as high intelligence. These traits are given specific attention in Act 3, Scene 1 through Feste and Viola (Cesario)’s exchange outside of Olivia’s property. The character of Feste is intriguing…

character Feste the Jester. Feste plays an important role as a “corrupter of words” and explains to the reader how powerful words are. With this understanding, he affirms that people are what they do; which can be proven, through Feste’s words, to be true. It is prudent to know that Feste does not believe people are constant. From Twelfth NIght we find numerous lines of Feste providing evidence of the changing nature of people. He clearly acknowledges Olivia for acting paradoxical when she…

with obstacles along the way, including Olivia, the Duke’s love interest. The themes mentioned are developed and sometimes scrutinized by the play’s characters, such as Orsino, Olivia, and Feste the clown. In particular, the progression of the beginning of III, i expand upon the themes through a conversation between Viola and Feste, also referred to as Clown. Through a quick reading of this part of the scene, a reader might view the conversation as further characterization…

that, and also succeeds in have very deep, almost tragic moments. These diverse and well-rounded characters who go through so much in such a little amount of time, all have so many different interpretations that add to the play and make it even more amazing. Two very important characters who can both be interpreted in different ways, are the aristocrat, Olivia and the fool, Feste. While separately seen as complex characters with complex interpretations, Olivia and Feste’s relationship is rarely…

Although Shakespeare's plays appear to be largely two-dimensional, there are characters who, at times, portray a three-dimensional, sort of self awareness of their dramatic situation. For example, in The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio often speaks his plans unnecessarily aloud to the audience with comical descriptions. Additionally, Feste in Twelfth Night portrays his "self awareness" through dialogue only the audience would find comical given their omniscient view point and detachment from the…

disturbing truths about the behavior of humanity, thus earning himself sinister notoriety. Shakespeare implements some of these truths into his work. So, to what extent is Twelfth Night a Machiavellian play? Throughout Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, his characters portray qualities a prince would possess according to Machiavelli, which reflects their actions as well as the situation they find themselves in by the conclusion of the play. Characters in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, only judge by…