Maria is confident that she can trick Malvolio and make him look a fool for everyone to laugh at. Maria is quick witted, according to Feste who also suggests she might be a good match for Sir Toby. Maria knows Olivia well enough to forge her handwriting and masterminds the plot against Malvolio. Feste in the production of Twelfth Night. Feste makes a living as a musician and from his witty remarks for both of which he receives money from characters of a higher social position.
Feste seems respectful towards Orsino and says that he enjoys singing. Sebastian in the production of Twelfth Night. Sebastian was rescued by a sea captain called Antonio. After three months with Antonio, Sebastian decides to set out to the court of Orsino. He died leaving behind him Sebastian and his twin sister. The Captain saw Sebastian tie himself to a wooden mast that was floating in the sea in the hope of surviving the storm.
Sebastian would have drowned after the shipwreck, if Antonio had not rescued him. Antonio in the production of Twelfth Night. Antonio in the production of Twefth Night. Antonio found Sebastian half drowned on the shore and rescued him. He quickly grows fond of Sebastian and stays with him, even following him to Illyria despite how dangerous this might be for him.
Antonio knows that he will face trouble if he follows Sebastian to Illyria, but his attachment to Sebastian is so strong, he decides to go anyway. Antonio rescued Sebastian from drowning and looked after him. The language he uses about his devotion to Sebastian uses religious imagery.
Orsino is very clear that he thinks Antonio stole from his ships and behaved in a violent way that makes him an enemy to Illyria. She quickly falls in love with him. As Orsino and Viola talk about love, Viola reveals more about how she feels and Orsino seems to become closer to her, still thinking she is Cesario. Orsino reveals how much he cares about Cesario when talking to Olivia towards the end of the play. Orsino wastes no time in asking Viola to marry him as soon as the truth of her identity is revealed.
Olivia falls in love with Cesario, not realising that Cesario is Viola in disguise. Viola is in love with Orsino, who is in love with Olivia. Orsino declares his love for Olivia at the beginning of the play and continues to pursue her even though she is very clear that she does not love him.
When Olivia meets Sebastian, she thinks he is Cesario and is delighted when he agrees to marry her. Sebastian seems to have no doubts about immediately marrying Olivia. Malvolio picks up a letter that he thinks has been written by Olivia but in fact is a forgery written by Maria.
Because of her disguise, she must be both herself and Cesario. This mounting identity crisis culminates in the final scene, when Viola finds herself surrounded by people who each have a different idea of who she is and are unaware of who she actually is.
Were Twelfth Night not a comedy, this pressure might cause Viola to break down. Thus liberated by her brother, Viola is free to shed the roles that she has accumulated throughout the play, and she can return to being Viola, the woman who has loved and won Orsino. This latent homoeroticism finds an explicit echo in the minor character of Antonio, who is clearly in love with his male friend, Sebastian.
Even once everything is revealed, Orsino continues to address Viola by her male name. We can thus only wonder whether Orsino is truly in love with Viola, or if he is more enamoured of her male persona. The problem of social ambition works itself out largely through the character of Malvolio, the steward, who seems to be a competent servant, if prudish and dour, but proves to be, in fact, a supreme egotist, with tremendous ambitions to rise out of his social class.
Maria plays on these ambitions when she forges a letter from Olivia that makes Malvolio believe that Olivia is in love with him and wishes to marry him. The feast of Twelfth Night, from which the play takes its name, was a time when social hierarchies were turned upside down. A Midsummer Night's Dream Dr. These qualities will help her obtain her position with Duke Orsino, and they are also the same qualities which cause Lady Olivia to immediately fall in love with her.
It was her charming personality, we should remember, which won her the sea captain's loyalty, without whose help her disguise would have never succeeded. And within a short three days' time, her wit, charm, loyalty, and her skill in music and conversation won for her the complete trust of Duke Orsino. We should also remember that even though she is in love with the duke, she is loyal in her missions when she tries to win Lady Olivia's love for him.
For the modern audience, Viola's charm lies in her simple, straightforward, good-humored personality.
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