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he is called 'fool' and 'jester' and 'clown'

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Entertains and amuses the audience and the characters on stage

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He’s inconsistent and dramatic with his alleged affections towards Olivia

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He is constantly the victim of wordplay from Maria, Toby and feste. Unaware he's being made fun of

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He is sometimes too dumb to understand jokes that are made about and around him

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Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another.

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‘Is that the meaning of accost?’- he’s confused and often falls behind the joke

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He often stays around foolish characters such as Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.

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Orsino is oblivious as to Viola’s love for him, showing that he is a fool as Viola is very clearly telling him that she loves him. She also implies that she is, in fact, a woman, but Orsino does not show any recognition of the fact.

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He has pieced together key ideas of the play before other characters- he is meant to be the fool, but instead he makes fools of everyone else

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‘Cucullus non facit monachum’- he’s well- educated

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Maria is constantly ignored and being disregarded by Sir Toby

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Uses wit and wordplay to play the characters he himself finds foolish

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Orsino is foolish as he doesn’t pick up on the obvious hints that Viola gives to suggest that ‘he’ is a woman

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Feste, out of all characters, behaves most rationally. Compared to Olivia’s love-struck behaviour, Feste is far from the fool.

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Lord of Misrule in the play. Believes that grief is bad for peoples health and ‘drinking heals’

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He is just as a fool as Andy- he hides his insecurities behind his cruelty to Andy- he makes comedic mistakes too ("a contagious breath"), but bullies Andy to look big

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Sir Andrew misunderstands Sir Toby and Maria's play on words. For example, he says: "I would I might never draw sword again."

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Orsino himself could be considered the fool as they are incredibly excessive towards love and other characters. Believes his own ego is enough and is quite narcissistic.

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“The more the fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul, being in heaven.”

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He is a bully, and social climber, who separates himself from ppl like Sir Toby + Andy and Maria, but is easily made the fool by them,and reduced to a snivelling mess by the end of the play- narcissist?

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Malvolio —> he is ‘sick of self love’ and consistently insults Feste with comments like ‘a barren rascal’.

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Malvolio is the biggest fool as he falls for Maria’s jokes and he is oblivious to them throughout

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‘Speaks three or four languages word for word without book and hath all the good gifts of nature’ - believes Sir Andrew is very intelligent ( makes Sir Toby out to be a fool when he directly contrasts to this actually not understanding basic english)

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Sir Toby says that Sir Andrew can speak multiple languages; we doubt this when Sir Andrew says: "What is "pourquoi"?". This makes the audience doubt the other abilities Sir Toby says Sir Andrew possesses.

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has the ability to challenge Olivia and make jokes about her - she clearly sees him as more of a wise man as she gives him a chance to prove himself

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Olivia says: "take the fool away" when she first sees Feste in the play.

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This could be argued as that is his role in the text as he is a licensed fool and therefore it shows it is his job in Illyria to do this meaning he also gets paid for his entertainment

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MARIA and MALVOLIO could be considered character foils, Maria succeeds where Malvolio fails and highlights his unlikeable traits.
Unlike him, she "bonds" with Andy and Toby, humouring them and playing along with their tricks.
Despite Malvolio holding himself at a higher standard than all of them, he is the one who ends up at the bottom, and Maria at the top

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He gives good advice however this is over looked by the other characters meaning that it emphasises his role as fool further

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‘ Accost, Sir Andrew, accost’

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When Feste says: "Would you have a love song or a song of good life?" This suggests Feste knows that love romance and marraige has caused all the major problems of the play.

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Feste's song in Act two scene three is a miniaturized version of the play. This shows that he understands what happens in the play.

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Malvolio calls Feste a "barren rascal".

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Andrew- ‘Begin fool. It begins ‘Hold thy peace’.
Feste - ‘I shall never begin if I hold my peace.’
He is made a fool of even by the fool

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Throughout the play he is always drunk and disorderly,- the Lord of Misrule.

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Olivia, the head of the household, disapproves of his behaviour, however, he carries on, even though she could remove him from the household.

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Orsino is very fickle when it comes to his romantic interests.

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Olivia could be argued to be the fool in the comedy of manners as she is shown to be a fool by Feste for waiting around to marry; she is mocked through her actions when she is foolish in her attempts to win over Viola, eg with the ring

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He constantly sends Olivia messages of love throughout the first two acts. This clearly doesn't work, however, he carries on doing it.

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Viola gives the Captain some money very quickly. This may show that she is quick to trust people.

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Viola is foolish to carry on with Olivia's plan of giving her a ring. This creates more comic confusion later on in the play.