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Shakespeare employs the letter device in ways far beyond the mechanical manipulation of plot development and mere revelation of character and identity. Among Shakespeare's letter scenes, some concerned with the act of writing, others with the act of reading letters, I will focus on the dramatic letter scene(act 2 scene 5) in Twelfth Night and find the significance of the forged letter and the intended reader.
According to the revelers' aim to tum Malvolio into an ass, Maria's counterfeit letter to Malvolio engineers his self-exposure through a full understanding of her opponent's flaw. It is a punitive festive action against a killjoy as well as a comment on his everyday behavior. Maria is the so-called intended author who knows her intended reader well and provides him with a riddle that he will misread readily.
Actually Malvolio's revelation of his sexual and marital fantasies precedes his opening of the letter and Maria's letter marshals him the way he was going. When he picks up the letter he supposes to be from Olivia, he recognizes the hand and 'her very phrases.' And he is desperate to interpret the ambiguous significance of the mysterious letters "M,O,A,l," because he wants them to signify him. Pulling them out of place, out of order, he becomes a bad reader who forces from texts the meanings he desires. Duped by Maria's forgery, and blown with imagination, he unwittingly performs a show of real self-exposure. There is perfect correspondence between the script that Maria manufactured in the shape of his dream and the role Malvolio himself wants to play in reality.
While the letter controls Malvolio's actions enough to underscore the canniness of Maria's revenge trap, it creates her fate as well. By engendering his fantasies in the letter scene, she has written her own desire to marry above herself. And a female revenge device through the manipulation of a pen is far more skillful than the traditional masculine activity of dueling. Finally her construction of the revenge device wins the reward of marriage into gentry.
Malvolio's absurd performance exposes his folly to comic perfection, but it also holds the mirror up to nature for the on-stage spectators who are presented with a comically distorted image of their own follies and delusions. But the comic observation scene binds audience and observers into a community of interpreters whose mirth is guaranteed by Malvolio's self-exposure. The audience in the theater see in Malvolio their reflected image as interpreters of the play, when they watch a self-satisfied reader who interprets a letter exactly as predicted to find in his reading the replica of his own desires. However, they are also allowed to conceptualize themselves as free from such self-interested and apparently misguided attempts to find the meaning. The forged letter and the intended reader is crucial to the play's fascination that it is open to various interpretations, since the alternative title of the play, 'What You Will,' may imply that everyone is free to invent his own title for the proceedings or create all the comic masks.
According to the revelers' aim to tum Malvolio into an ass, Maria's counterfeit letter to Malvolio engineers his self-exposure through a full understanding of her opponent's flaw. It is a punitive festive action against a killjoy as well as a comment on his everyday behavior. Maria is the so-called intended author who knows her intended reader well and provides him with a riddle that he will misread readily.
Actually Malvolio's revelation of his sexual and marital fantasies precedes his opening of the letter and Maria's letter marshals him the way he was going. When he picks up the letter he supposes to be from Olivia, he recognizes the hand and 'her very phrases.' And he is desperate to interpret the ambiguous significance of the mysterious letters "M,O,A,l," because he wants them to signify him. Pulling them out of place, out of order, he becomes a bad reader who forces from texts the meanings he desires. Duped by Maria's forgery, and blown with imagination, he unwittingly performs a show of real self-exposure. There is perfect correspondence between the script that Maria manufactured in the shape of his dream and the role Malvolio himself wants to play in reality.
While the letter controls Malvolio's actions enough to underscore the canniness of Maria's revenge trap, it creates her fate as well. By engendering his fantasies in the letter scene, she has written her own desire to marry above herself. And a female revenge device through the manipulation of a pen is far more skillful than the traditional masculine activity of dueling. Finally her construction of the revenge device wins the reward of marriage into gentry.
Malvolio's absurd performance exposes his folly to comic perfection, but it also holds the mirror up to nature for the on-stage spectators who are presented with a comically distorted image of their own follies and delusions. But the comic observation scene binds audience and observers into a community of interpreters whose mirth is guaranteed by Malvolio's self-exposure. The audience in the theater see in Malvolio their reflected image as interpreters of the play, when they watch a self-satisfied reader who interprets a letter exactly as predicted to find in his reading the replica of his own desires. However, they are also allowed to conceptualize themselves as free from such self-interested and apparently misguided attempts to find the meaning. The forged letter and the intended reader is crucial to the play's fascination that it is open to various interpretations, since the alternative title of the play, 'What You Will,' may imply that everyone is free to invent his own title for the proceedings or create all the comic masks.
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