Malvolio

• He has been yonder i'the sun practising behaviour to his own shadow this half-hour.
• 'Tis forture, all is fortune, Maria once told me that she did affect me, and I have heard herself come thus near, that should she fancy it should be one of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more exalted respect than anyone else that follows her.'
• 'To be Count Malvolio'
• Look how imagination blows him
• Calling my officers about me, in my branches velvet gown, having come from a day-bed where I have left Olivia sleeping
• 'to ask for my kindsman Toby'
• By my life this is my lady's hand. These be her very c's, her u's and her t's, and thus makes she her great P's.
• Act 2 Scene 5 explores the somewhat narcissistic characterisation of Malvolio, highlighting his obsession with his own fantasy as he becomes lost to "such a dream", facilitating his comic gulling.
• Act 2 Scene 5 shows Malvolio being constantly dehumanised by the other characters, highlighting his position as prey and perhaps indicating the power imbalance between him and characters such as Sir Toby.
• Act 2 Scene 5: 'To anger him we'll have the bear again'
• Act 2 Scene 5: 'Lie thou there, for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.'
• Act 2 Scene 5: 'O peace. Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes'
• Act 2 Scene 5: 'Now the woodcock is near the gin'
• Act 2 Scene 5 also shows the power imbalance in the use of violent imagery by Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, who potentially feel that their positon is threatened by the steward, Malvolio, leading them to react in an uncharacteristically agressive manner.
• Act 2 Scene 5: '...and we will fool him black and blue'
• Act 2 Scene 5: 'Pistol him! Pistol him!'
• Act 2 Scene 5:'O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye!'
• Act 2 Scene 5: "Ay, or I'll cudgel him and make him cry 'O!'"