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- She seems to forget about her grief fairly quickly after meeting Orsino’s messenger and sends her steward, Malvolio, after him with a ring. She pretends that Cesario (Viola) has left the ring, but in fact it is a ploy to get him (her) to return.
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Malvolio spots the letter lying in the garden path. He mistakes Maria’s handwriting for Olivia’s, as Maria has predicted, and Malvolio thinks that the letter is from Olivia. Apparently, Maria sealed the letter with Olivia’s sealing ring to make the letter look even more authentic.
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When he finds the forged letter from Olivia (actually penned...
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Malvolio gives Cesario the ring that Olivia has sent with him, rebuking him for having left it with Olivia. Viola realizes Olivia’s deception and plays along with it, pretending that she did indeed give the ring to Olivia.
Thinking fast, Olivia summons Malvolio and gives him a ring, which, she lies, Cesario left behind on Orsino's behalf. She commands Malvolio to chase down Cesario, return the ring, and instruct him to come back on the following day to hear her reasons for rejecting it.
Olivia uses Malvolio as a pawn in a trick to get Cesario to come back and talk with her again another day. Viola does tell the truth that she did not leave a ring with Olivia,...
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Malvolio initially seems to be a minor character, and his humiliation seems little more than an amusing subplot to the Viola-Olivia-Orsino- love triangle. But he becomes more interesting as the play progresses, and most critics have judged him one of the most complex and fascinating characters in Twelfth Night. When we first meet Malvolio, he seems...
When he finds the forged letter from Olivia (actually penned by Maria) that seems to offer hope to his ambitions, Malvolio undergoes his first transformationfrom a stiff and wooden embodiment of priggish propriety into an personification of the power of self--delusion. He is ridiculous in these scenes, as he capers around in the yellow stockings an...
Our pity for Malvolio only increases when the vindictive Maria and Toby confine him to a dark room in Act IV. As he desperately protests that he is not mad, Malvolio begins to seem more of a victim than a victimizer. It is as if the unfortunate steward, as the embodiment of order and sobriety, must be sacrificed so that the rest of the characters c...
Jul 31, 2015 · Olivia allows Cesario to speak with her privately about Orsino’s love. As Cesario presents Orsino’s love-suit, Olivia falls in love with Cesario. She sends her steward, Malvolio, after Cesario with a ring.
It seems that Olivia has complimented Malvolio on his yellow stockings and cross- garters before, perhaps out of politeness or as a joke, but that Malvolio took her seriously. Maria cleverly uses this detail to convince Malvolio the letter truly expresses Olivia’s feelings.
