Shakespeare Vs. Modern Text and Movies

When reading a play by Shakespeare  it is very different than reading a novel from modern times. Shakespeare has written his plays like poems. He incorporates many metaphors in his play that people are constantly despairing. A novel is what people grow up learning how to read, modern text is easy to read but Shakespearean text is harder to read but with practice it gets easier. A movie also helps understand what is happening in the play. A movie helps understand a play, but the movie is not always accurate to the actual play. A movie helps understand a play, but it is no substitute for the real thing.

Malvolio

Malvolio is a character who is in the secondary plot of Shakespeare’ play, Twelfth Night. He is seen as an enimy to most of the people in the play. Malvolio is a man who seems to not like having fun or join in the act of playfulness. At first we meet Malvolio talking to Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, he is trying to calm them down and tell them that they should not be so loud. "Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?" (Shakespeare II, iii) He was almost talking down to them. Olivia over heard him, and came out after Malvolio left, she was going to make Malvolio look like a fool for what he had done. "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Shakespere II, iii) Sir Toby and Sir Andrew made fun of him and mocked him for is selfishness.  Malvolio is a very gullible person. Olivia lied to Malvolio saying that she loved when he wears his yellow stalking. He wore them whenever he could and he looked like a fool. Malvolio also wants to be count, and Olivia gives him a letter saying that it could happen, he goes around trying to impress Olivia, but all he is doing is making a fool of himself. "My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour" (Shakespeare II, iii). Not everyone thinks that malvollio should be made a fool for what he has done; Maria tries to stop it. Malvolio is a very gullible person in Twelfth Night and he is very arrogant and he is punished for that.