Today’s technology allows one to make friends on the opposite side of the world; one can see another’s hobbies, music, and photos with just a click of a mouse. Nevertheless, one’s profile isn’t always what it seems; people generate fake accounts to talk to strangers. Under a pseudonym, people can protect their identity and portray themselves as someone different; this is known as Catfishing. In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the characters don’t have the technology we have now, but a shipwreck began the series of Catfishing in the Dukedom Illyria. The confusing love triangle encompasses Viola as a girl who dresses as a man named Cesario and falls in love with Duke Orsino; however, he loves Countess Olivia who has fallen in love with Cesario. …show more content…
Malvolio is a deceptive social climber who stated how he would like to marry Olivia for her wealth and live a lavish life of luxury. Sharp-tongued Maria says, “Obverse him, for the love of mockery, for I / know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of him.” Maria writes a fake letter in a handwriting like that of Olivia’s to disguise herself and convince Malvolio that Olivia is writing the letter. Ordinarily, when people catfish today they use pictures of someone to create a fake profile in hopes of luring people in; in this case, the letter is the bait. Maria and the others have become extremely fed up with Malvolio’s behavior and acted out in ways of deception. The events after Malvolio finds the letter on the ground is an episode of self-validation and justification. In the letter written by Maria she writes in Olivia 's handwriting saying, “”M.O.A.I” This simulation is not as the former, and / yet to crush this a little, it would bow to me…” Malvolio believes that this vague acronym is about him and begins the snowball effect of Catfishing. During this scene, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew are hiding in the hedges and laughing at Malvolio’s foolishness. The letter goes on to say how “Olivia” has feelings for Malvolio, but cannot act on them because of her status. She requires him to dress and act a certain to confirm his love for her too. Perhaps Malvolio
For instance, when he finds the love letter that is supposedly written by Olivia, confessing her love for him, and telling him to smile, wear yellow stockings and go cross-gartered, he says, “I will smile, I will do every thing that thou wilt have me.” (2, 5, 165-6). He thinks the letter is from countess Olivia, who he is in love with, and believes that the greatness of being her husband is about to be given to him. Before finding the letter, he wanders around in Olivia’s garden and dreams about himself “To be Count Malvolio!” (2, 5, 32). He imagines how the other characters of the play would serve him, which again shows that Malvolio thinks he stands above everyone. In addition, when Malvolio is hailed by Olivia, he arrives smiling, wearing yellow stockings and cross-gartered, which makes Olivia think he has gone insane: “Why, this is very midsummer madness.” (3, 4, 51). Consequently, in this part of the play Malvolio’s inside does not match his outside. Throughout the play he is a grave character, that detests other persons having fun, so his actions of smiling and wearing strange dress make him look like a madman, which is why he gets locked up in Olivia’s basement. Towards the end, he returns to his initial manner, and declares that he will “be reveng’d on the whole pack of you!”, referring to the characters that tricked him into believing that the letter was
Malvolio’s easy acceptance of this and quick transformation from stiff servant to yellow stocking wearing “puritan” heightens his foolishness, as it was unheard of in Victorian times for Mistresses of the house to marry stewards and vice versa. This would immediately create comic effect for Victorian audiences as they would view his ambition as futile. “To for my kinsman Toby.” The extent of Malvolio’s fantasy is illustrated here by his unwanted familiarity with Sir Toby. The lack of punctuation in this quick declaration, creates a rushed tone of glee reminiscent of an adolescent and uncharacteristic of Malvolio who had previously been depicted as conservative and stiff. The use of repetition in addressing Sir Toby as family is again shown when he calls him “Cousin Toby” this cycle of familiarity shows the desperate tone that Malvolio adopts in trying to marry Olivia as he has completely deluded himself into thinking that he has already transcended social hierachy, and the repetition serves to illustrate how fast Malvolio falls into his fantasies. This transformation succeeds in creating confusion as to Malvolio’s true nature as he had previously been described as “puritan” however, seems to be displaying none of the typical
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Next up is the power that Malvolio was given by Olivia. After Malvolio attempted to break up Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria’s fun, they began to plot against him. Malvolio however, was simply trying to keep order in Olivia’s house. Olivia has given Malvolio a position of some power in her house. Judging from different parts of the story and by Olivia’s position as a countess it is safe to assume that being in charge of the affairs of Olivia’s household was no small task. She was obviously wealthy and had a large house with many servants and for Olivia to try and manage all of those things on her own would be a very difficult task, but also a task that she couldn’t trust to just anyone. She obviously trusted Malvolio with running the affairs of her house. Sean Benson touches on this point and argues that, “As Olivia’s steward, Malvolio is in control of the domestic affairs of her household; if he were as inept as […] others have thought, how has he risen to this important managerial
Malvolio?s conceitedness was broken and then he sees that he did not truly love Olivia, but was only flattered that he had been loved by someone so beautiful and young.
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Because of his rude and bossy actions Maria, Toby, Feste, Andrew, and Fabian made an evil plan. They planned to trick him and make a fool out of the steward. By making him think Olivia loves him and that he is a madman, they would sure get their revenge. Maria first wrote a letter to Malvolio playing as Olivia. The letter is a love poem to Malvolio, claiming she loves him but wishes to keep it a secret.
In the play “Twelfth Night”, Malvolio is a steward for Lady Olivia. He’s very in love with her and only she has to deal with it. On the other hand, Olivia is plainly not in love with him; she is in love with Cesario. He tries everything to try and win her love but he also has a negative attitude towards others. Malvolio’s behavior is unacceptable and other people shouldn’t have to deal with it.
Since the introduction of the World Wide Web and mainstream use of the internet to access information in 1990, the way people interact with each other has changed. Social media has opened up new mediums for people to communicate with each other. People exchange messages on Facebook, post tweets on Twitter, and “selfies” on Instagram. These new mediums have also changed the way people find romance and love. In this modern era, it is not uncommon to see people dating other people they have met on the internet. This has opened the door for “catfishing”, lying about your true identity on the internet in order to lure someone into a relationship. This has become so common that Molly McHugh of digitaltrends.com4 has described it as an epidemic. This essay will explore how catfishing has developed with the introduction of social media, why people catfish, and why talking over the internet makes it difficult to spot when someone is presenting a false identity. It will also identify the impacts that catfishing has had on society.
Another example of deception is when Maria, Olivia's servant writes a letter to Malvolio, Olivia's head servant and Maria's coworker. Maria deceives Malvolio by writing in Olivia's handwriting. In the letter she says that Olivia loves men in yellow stockings. "Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered" (2.5. 143-145). Maria knows that Malvolio will follow this ridiculous deed because of this love for his lady Olivia. Sir Toby Belch says, "He shall think by the letters that thou wilt drop that they come from my niece, and that she's in love with him" (2.3. 154-156). Maria places the letter in her garden where Malvolio will definitely find it. Thinking Olivia will fall in love with him because of his clothing, Malvolio dress up in yellow stockings and goes to see Olivia. When Olivia sees Malvolio and the way he is acting, she isolates him for fear that he is insane.
Another example is the way in which Olivia adopts the pretence of mourning and the puritanical Malvolio is tricked into the role of Olivia's suitor and becomes a smiling courtier.
In the later part of the play a different side of him is exposed. Malvolio is Olivia’s steward and his job is to manage Olivia’s house; he is her chief servant. It’s a very responsible job that he takes very seriously. He enjoys telling people what to do.
Maria and the conspirators decide to mislead Malvolio into thinking that Olivia is in love with him. Maria decides to lead him on by writing a letter, but means to be from Olivia. This love letter is meant to instruct Malvolio to do actions that Olivia despises. Maria is able to mislead Malvolio because she has the same print and seal as Olivia. Shakespeare is able to trick the characters and create many portrayals of them.
Malvolio is a social climber, he feels that if Olivia would love him his status would be higher. But because of
Through the play each character’s behavior is changed. The biggest change in behavior was that of Malvolio who began to believe in his own delusion. This delusion made him believe that the fair Lady Olivia loved him. His delusional state got him locked up in a shackles and isolated. This state of mind is an effect of love for him. Then the Lady Olivia’s behavior when she is not in love is a melancholy state. She had just lost her brother and her