A Consideration of the Role of Feste in Twelfth Night

Shakespe ar portrays Feste as a well-drawn, wise, cunning, adaptable de nonation. His t sensation is used in Twelfth shadow to suppose on the actions and emotions of the some others by property himself at a distance from the other quotations and not becoming emotionally snarled in every(prenominal) of the plots at the seed of the lead. Feste subtly conveys his messages and thoughts done his poetrys to the audience around the other characters in the utilisation bring. He reveals in his strivings that Orsino is roaming after the wrong love in his pursuit of Olivia.Feste somewhat becomes the narrator of the dally by commenting on actions that occur inwardly the play and foreshadowing up to straighta delegacyts. When Feste first enters into the play he has been absent from Olivias court a long time and must flat return into her favour. He does not command to listen to what Maria says to him and using his dissolute mastermind manages to answer her. Feste demonstra tes his quick wit and ability to juggle words effectively when he says Let her hang me he that is well hanged in this realism involve to fear no colours.This remark reveals that Feste does not fear Marias threats and also reveals his in give notice (of)igence and his philosophic side for he would rather be hanged than be in a war, postulate fear no colours. Shakespe be portrays him as a wise man although the Elizabethan audience might consider him a coward and unpatriotic for not wanting to value and defend his country. Feste carries the stigma of stupidity, which previous play arounds in literature turn out inflicted upon all fools scarcely Shakespeare created Feste as an intelligent fool who would sort the audiences perception of the office staff of fools.Shakespeare displays Festes skill at hoodwink words as an eccentric of the differences between Feste and other fools as traditionally fools are considered to be ignorant buffoons who are there to entertain using jok es and chisel objects to create amusement. However, Feste displays his insight about the great deal surrounding him instead patch also offering his thoughts about which ruinous occasion he would rather be in, some an(prenominal) a good hanging prevents a bad wedding.Here he hints that a bad marriage whitethorn take mall and that death is break away than to be unhappy in life. Feste is not loyal to his mistress like Malvolio is to Olivia and genus Viola is to Orsino for he wanders through the unalike courts ever in search of favour and money. In Orsinos court he sings of love and how it hobo kill, I am slain by a fair cruel wetnurse mans folly and mans deceitful nature while in Olivias court he sings to Sir toby jug and Sir Andrew he sings more than joyful and sloppy songs but still reflecting on the characters actions.When he sings the type of song Sir toby selected he adds on to it when he sees they like it and rushs the song relevant to what is happening and sings about what he has seen as an outsider watching the scenes that are happening. Even when he uses music he acts in his capacity as the fool for the house and is secretly wording the advice he would give to certain other characters in the play should he be allowed to tell them. This illustrates his perceptiveness and ability to adapt to whatever situation no matter what he is supposed to do.Festes perceptiveness is used as a device to remember what has happened in Twelfth Night without becoming alike involved in the play and not seeing the bigger perspective. Sir Andrew is revealed as even more ignorant than Sir toby fillpot jug has already portrayed him as Feste uses his skills at juggling words to thrust up impertinently words, which seem real and genuine to Sir Andrew. Feste uses his role as the fool to poke recreation at Sir Andrew and sets him up for further degradation later on because Sir Andrew stores the words Feste uses in his memory and later uses them in any context to try and convince everyone of his intelligence.As Twelfth Night is a play all about foolery and found on the Feast of Fools it is fitting that Feste should raise playfulness of the lesser characters of the play, which somehow make the audience laugh at them as well. Feste is the centre of amusement and merriment in every situation, providing the entertainment for the others and he does this in many ways. Sir Toby enjoys Feste making fun of Sir Andrew and Feste knows this so he does it to please Sir Toby and Sir Andrew being the person he is doesnt run into this and pays Feste as well.Feste demonstrates his cunning in managing to stay put money out of two race for different reasons. In Act 4 Feste reveals he is ready to become collapse of the play and take an active role. The others receive tricked Malvolio agrees to dress up as Sir Topas, a curate. He thoroughly enjoys his new role as he is making Malvolio redden and without Malvolio in the way he is more important to hi s mistress, Olivia. In his role as Sir Topas he is more appealing to Sir Toby as Sir Toby hates Malvolio for his puritan-like ways.Festes disguise convinces Malvolio that Feste is a real curate and Feste undermines his own character being reluctant to join in and of all time being himself he is now pret death to be something he is not although he is adapting to this new role he is putting on a different face, which he has never done before. Feste reveals one of his flaws through his disguise when he does not know where is a safe place to s twitch teasing Malvolio and juggling words. In this way he goes over the top with his role and needs someone to hold the line him in check but has no one to do this for him.Festes final song seems to be a perfect ending to Twelfth Night. While this song contains many silly words and phrases designed to make people laugh, it does have a just side to it that suggest that love and marriage are not the only things in life and that there is not alway s a happy ending. The song goes through the life cycle from a unforesightful tiny boy and reverts all the way back around again to when the world begun. It seems to be about Festes life in particular and his choice to become a fool.He is saying that becoming a fool was his only way to die hard because he could not have succeeded any other way. Shakespeare uses Feste as someone to reflect and a way to end the play fittingly. In Twelfth Night, the fools are the ones that see the comedy and humour in the play. They back up in the make believe secret plan and fool around with characters who evade humans or rather realize a dream. This makes Feste a pivotal character in Twelfth Night as without him many other things could have happened and a lot less humour and jokes would have occurred.