How Is Malvolio Manipulated

What I gather from reading this play, I say that Malvolio was a kind of good character until tricked into believe something that wasn’t truth. An since he thought the letter was from someone he knew he could never have. Provoked him into acting a way, he never acted before I think the audience would understand the lies and deceit Malvolio endured. I feel the audience should take Malvolio side on the fact that he was manipulated and tortured in a mental way. The audience should look at this deception as something you wouldn’t even do to your worst enemy. I mean joking and locking a person in a dark room is already bad enough then forgetting about him until the end of them play just as bad. But when lie and play with ones emotions also while …show more content…
Because she trusted him being around but after the madness he pulled in front of her. I highly think that trust will be given back to Malvolio just because he should have knew better to believe that Olivia would ever have feelings for him. Even doe he was tormented and embarrasses to say the least. I feel Malvolio was the victim out of all this; he and Antonio are the only ones who didn’t have a good ending. One was dragged off by guards the other ran off ashamed of what he realize what was truly happening around him. This is why I agree with Olivia saying he was “notoriously abused” because they did lock the man in a small dark room while everyone else was enjoying their day. It wasn’t until the end of the play somebody remembers to let Malvolio out. Which then he finds out he was made a fool out of. And let’s not forget the tortured he got while locked up. Feste makes him feel even worster than he already does by pretending to be a priest and doing a physiological examine, declaring him to be an insane person. An towards the end when he is let out he storms away mad and ashamed now that everyone around him has someone except