e such a person “having come from my day bed, where I have left Olivia sleeping ”. At the same time he has great, worldly ambitions which are strictly against the puritan philosophy. This longing for new superiority and strong belief that he will gain it, causes him to be open for trickery and thus provides the starting point of the punishment and humiliation through which he later suffers.In order to try at pleasing Olivia and through doing so attempting at gaining her admiration and love, he carries out deeds at the expense of others. Malvolio is in many ways a “time pleaser” and he shows this when in the ways of a sycophant, he reports to Olivia the “misdemeanours” of his superior Sir Toby “this uncivil rule; she shall know of it by this hand”. Thus he does well in conjuring up further resentment from Sir Toby and the servants, while making his punishment both more justified and more craved by those that he wrongs.A further hypocrisy of Malvolio and yet another vice opposing his puritan philosophy, is his extreme vanity. He places himself on a pedestal above all but Olivia, through purposely using language above his station, seemingly memorised from books “an affectioned ass, who cons state without book and utters it in great swarthes”. He also makes an effort to pride himself on his physical appearance “should she fancy, it should be one of my complexion” which he seems to assume is one to be admired. He is generally proud about all aspects of himself, to such an extent that he is greatly bordering on superciliousness. Overall, with taking into consideration the negative and truly objectionable aspects of Malvolio, it can be seen that he does in fact need to be taught a lesson about the downfalls of his disdainful ways. The fact that he is so totally self satisfied, means that convincing him of another’s love (i.e. Olivia’s) is easy to achieve “...
