Feste

madness.” -Aristotle. Olivia’s clown, Feste has a very intriguing role in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Throughout the play, Feste is a bold and valiant character who continually makes daring comments towards everybody, including his mistress. The clown’s job is to be silly and crazy but in reality, Feste has the most wisdom and intelligence of all characters. Feste is also able to delude the other characters in the play using his wit or a disguise. Feste develops many different traits throughout

In The Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Feste proves that he is a very wise and intelligent character in the play. His intellect is concealed by a very strong facade of wit and humor. Feste throughout the play is very independent. His independence helps uncover the morals of other characters in the play. A fool, defined in the 13th century, is defined as a “silly or stupid person”. Feste, being labeled as a jester or clown, is ironically very wise and intelligent. He is labeled as a stock character

Essay 1 Feste is a typical Shakespearean fool in the Twelfth Night. Feste works for both Olivia and Duke Orisino. He is shown as witty person who entertains everyone with his jokes, dancing and singing. Fool’s character is very ironic to his name because he is the wisest person in the whole Illyria who outshines everyone with his humour and wit. In his presence the mood of the environment becomes lighter and everybody have a good time. He moves easily between upper-class

coworkers. While the many definitions above are valid, they are not as accurate in describing Feste the Fool in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In actuality, Feste is no fool at all. His wit, smarts, and observational skills make him the most intelligent and engaging character in the play. Feste is renowned for his wit and impressive use of puns. He is a genius with words, and his

presents Feste as sympathetic and gentle choric figure. It is Feste who allows the audience to see the films respect for the original play, and the existing issues within it. This includes the defencelessness of women, and the attractive, but dangerous, qualities of altering one’s true sexual identity. Interestingly, unlike the original script, Nunn opens his first scene with Feste observing Viola struggle to shore after the shipwreck she has experienced. In this context, Kingsley’s Feste is revealed

of this at least one time in life. For some, they are able to laugh and take a humorous approach about the situation. For others, when made out to be a fool, its a matter of pride, humiliation, and embarrassment that hurts an ego. Sir Andrew and Feste are two examples of how a fool is percieved, and how foolish someone can act. Don't judge a book by it's cover. An excellent example of a "natural" fool is Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Intentionally he doesn't mean to be funny, but he is. He is amused

The role of Malvolio in Twelfth Night is, generally, being the target of Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria’s pranks and foolishness. At the beginning of the play, he is very easy to find intolerable, due to his killjoy-like behaviour and vanity. However, by the end of the play, the audience mostly feel sorry for him, because of the malicious way that Sir Toby and others treat Malvolio. Despite this, Malvolio is one of the main sources of comedy, due to his gullibility and, as some say, his ‘foolishness’

In my opinion the joke that was played upon Malvolio to humiliate him was taken too far and in the end he was "notoriously abused" unjustifiably. Feste, as usual, realises before the other characters that the joke has gone too far and loses interest in it, "I would we were well rid of this knavery" On the other hand I believe that Malvolio did deserve some of the punishment that he was

completely throughout the play presenting him as the “real fool”. Malvolio is introduced to us in Act1Sc5, presented as pompous and assertive, first impressions of him depict a man desperate for superiority. This is shown when he calls Feste “a barren rascal” even though Feste is of the same social standing as Malvolio. The fact that our first introduction to Malvolio involves him mocking another character using degrading language immediately

Another image that would associate with Malvolio is a fool. This is evident because he falls for the love letter prank and dresses like a fool in an indecent manner just to win Olivia’s heart. He also falls for the trick when Feste disguises as Sir Topas then back to Feste and Malvolio is unaware of that. The word somber also associates with him because he is mostly grave throughout the play. He rarely smiles until he finds out that Olivia “loves” him. This is my character sketch of Malvolio and