Feste

• OLIVIA: Take the Fool away. FESTE: Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the Lady…
• “The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul being in heaven.”

  Feste uses wordplay to show that Olivia is the fool because she is mourning her brother even though she thinks he's in heaven
• The play opens with Feste singing a song about time being fleeting and how it will eventually take us all to our graves. This sets up the theme that everything in life is temporary and we must make the most of what we have while we can.
• "I wear not motley in my brain"

  Feste is only a fool by profession
• "Now Jove in his next commodity of hair send thee a beard"

  Perhaps a subtle hint that Feste knows Viola's true identity
• "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"

  Feste may be a fool but he is in fact very intelligent
• “Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere” - shows Feste's awareness of the other fools within the play even though he carries the official fool title