Is Malvolio from Twelfth Night supposed to be the evil counterpart of Benvolio from Romeo and Juliet, or are the similarities in nomenclature in name only? I'm seriously considering this due to the prefix + volio nomenclature?
Or is this just chasing shadows in the grocery line and there are no real similarities here?
Malvolio is wrongly imprisoned. Is this a thematically unimportant subplot?
[Edit: below is just for brainstorming, not meant to be an opinion about anything other than that the topic is worth discussing -- please add other questions/possibilities/interpretations]
Morally:
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Malvolio starts as an unsympathetic character -- he is a bootlicker, self-important, sneered at. By the end, he has the sympathy at least of Orsinio and Olivia
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Is Maria culpable?
The ending song is about growth - change and constancy. Has that song got any relevance to this subplot
Is this subplot germane to "have greatness thrust upon them"?
Perhaps it is not thematically important, so why have it?
Structurally:
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It is a convenience to Shakespeare to
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Remove a tedious character in funny clothes from the audience's eyesight
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Let Feste do his Topas/Feste back-and-forth
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It is a vivid, amusing story in its own right and could be grafted into any play where the matter is not grave
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According to Fabian, Belch marries Maria to reward her for her role. How much of an award should we take that to be, is it a punishment?
To me, Malvolio's speech when he hands Olivia the letter, starting with "Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase" -- is rational, well-spoken, affecting list of grievances -- "kept in a dark house". Fabian though seems sincere when he admits his part in the "sportful malice", and says it should be remembered with laughter than revenge. Malvolio has exited, unreconciled, but with the agreement of O. and O. that he's been wronged.
I love the scene where Malvolio 'finds' the letter and the two parallel dialogues with Malvolio on the one side and the conspirators (Toby, Andrew, Fabian and Maria) on the other side.
What I don't get is the final solution to the four letters (MAOI) - yes M also starts the name Malvolio, and the rest of the letters are in the name - but is that it?
What am I missing?
In action comics 632-635 we are introduced to a evil green lantern named Lord Malvolio. A human GL who looks like a muscular Alan Scott. 300 years old and on his own sector. He acquired his GL from his father who he killed.
Here’s his story for those who don’t know about him.
Anyhow the story ended where he destroyed Hal’s Ring. Hal thought he killed him and had to take Malvolio’s ring to get back to earth. After leaving we see that it was all part of Malvolio’s plan and that he wanted Hal to take his ring so he could control him.
Sadly we never saw the man or his scheme come to fruition as he was never in any comic ever again.
Here’s to what could have been!
It’s the one that begins “Madame you have done me wrong, notorious wrong”
The first online tournament I know of was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/KeyforgeGame/comments/9a62sm/tts_keyforge_welcome_to_the_jungle/?sort=new
In case anyone else wasn't paying attention (I wasn't), the tournament is finally over, with Doomwind taking the victory. No chains were used for this tournament.
When Feste plays the part of Sir Topaz in the prank on Malvolio he wears a disguise and I was giving it some thought and I began to wonder how much he actually needed that disguise in order to feel like a curate.
The reason that I believe it was more for his own benefit (to convince himself that he was the role of curate) is because Malvolio was in complete darkness and was unable to see anything. (Or at least this is the impression I've been given through the repeated emphasis on darkness in that scene.)
What do you guys think? Do you believe that Feste relied on his disguise, to some degree, in order to become Sir Topaz? Do you think that without the disguise he would have been less convincing when it came to making Malvolio believe that he was a curate?
Hi everyone. I'm looking for insight on staging the Malvolio-in-prison scene from Twelfe Night. It's a good scene on paper but I rarely see it pulled off well on stage and I have failed at it myself. Any ideas of staging? What do you think is the important aspects of the scene? Have you seen anything work?
I've been very interested in the name Malvo since he was first introduced and have enjoyed the discussions / remarks that I have read in this subreddit about the name. This is the first I've heard of Malvolio but no nothing about this Shakespeare character. Does anyone have knowledge of this and think it may in some way have influenced the name of the character in Fargo? I'll I know about Malvolio is that "He is often portrayed as the main antagonist" according to Wikipedia. edit: spelling errors
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”
“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.
The doctor says it terminal.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.
Gender is fluid.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
