The Appropriateness of the Victorian Renaming of the Play “Malvolio”

Compared with other Shakespeare 's comedy, "Twelfth Night" is definitely the darkest. As his last comedy, it is suitable for the 'twelfth night' that gradually gets darker, seek to emphasize that the end is not true happiness, depression, and 'it is all' . It conforms to humorous humor of manga tradition, unlimited court love, confusion, and potential tragedy, but eventually it is a happy ending, but "Twelfth Night" is a happy social disadvantage It is the universal darkness shown. And I decided to be absorbed in "cake and beer".

Overall, the role of Malvolio in the play "Twelve Nights" is hard to define for today's audience, but for the audience in the Elizabethan era, written for the play, the role of Malvolio refers to Puritanism I will. Many Puritans in the Shakespeare era were related to the class of merchants and were considered selfish hypocrites. As a result, Malvolio embodies all the attributes that Elizabethan audiences looking for fun tend to dislike. There was not a clear sympathy for the audience drama of the 17th century, but to the public of today, the Puritan movement is almost gone, so the audience will feel sympathy, and Marvolio is locked in a cell. I do not think Shakespeare is going to make the audience express sympathy for Malvolio, but in a culture more acceptable today than this, it will not help. All reference lines claimed by Malvolio encourage viewers to participate in the play more.

The position of Malvolio in the play is Housekeeper of House Lady Countess Olivia. He is confident and highly appreciates himself and it is obvious when he asks whether his love letter is written by Olivia. He said, "This is truly due to his great hand." In addition to not only referring to great words like himself, he also uses the word "him" but not "you" to infer that he is a royal member or a redemption slip. Ironically it is ironic that Malvolio is just a butler, which is funny but he is extremely fraudulent and thinks he is more important than the rest of the family's characters. In this villainous way Shakespeare might portray Marvario as drawn as Puritan, so the 17th century audience will find that his punishment for drama is more acceptable. When writing "Twelve Nights", Puritan did not like peace of mind and complicated attitude.