MALVOLIO critical quotes

Question 1

Bates (about Malvolio)

Answer 1

“Malvolio is drama’s enemy… If anyone ends up outside the green world of Illyria then it is Malvolio, for he never really went there in the first place.”

Question 2

Bevington (Malvolio)

Answer 2

“Malvolio is a well-suited target for satire.”

Question 3

Carol Thomas Needy - Malvolio

Answer 3

“Malvolio serves as a scapegoat who is punished for flaws others share”

Question 4

Milton Crane - The gulling of Malvolio

Answer 4

“The baiting of Malvolio is unrelieved in its comic heartlessness”

Question 5

Peter Cash - Malvolio

Answer 5

“Malvolio… becomes the one figure in the play for whom we may feel genuine pity”

Question 6

Peter Cash -Malvolio

Answer 6

‘He is a kill-joy’

Question 7

C.L Barber - Malvolio

Answer 7

Malvolio is ‘a kind of foreign body to be expelled by laughter’

Question 8

Hollander (Malvolio)

Answer 8

“Suffering from a kind of moral indigestion, Malvolio’s true character is revealed in his involuted, Puritanic sensibility that allows of no appetites directed outward.”