In William Shakespeare's play “Twelfth Night” the supposed puritan Malvolio is the unpopular rigid, hypocritical and naive steward made to look foolish by those he has humiliated (Sir Toby , Sir Andrew, Maria, Fabian and Feste) which the public likes. Malvolio is more the victim of his psychic propensities than Mary's seagull, as his own beliefs seem to engineer his downfall. In Suzann Collins' "Hunger Games" trilogy, the "pure" President Snow achieves those exact qualities of Malvolio. He appears to be on the side of the people, but we soon learn that he overwhelms himself with power and puts himself down. The obnoxious nature of Malvolio's rigidity is shown immediately in his first entry into the play, in his rude humiliation of Feste, "I wonder your lordship should amuse himself with such a barren scoundrel... unless you laugh and offer him one occasion, he gets gagged” (McEachern, 2007). Disapproval of his rigid and humorless attitude immediately follows with Olivia chastising her administrator's habit of making a big deal out of everything, “Or you are. fed up with self-love, Malvolio, and taste with an altered appetite" (McEachern, 2007). Malvolio further manifests his rigid and humorous personality as, depicted as a spoilsport, he spoils the revelry of Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Feste at late night “My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? You have no wit, no education, no honesty, but babble like tinkerers at this time of night” (McEachern, 2007). the “stubborn and rude parts” of Malvolio that earn him the enmity of the revelers. Since he thinks, with excellences, that it is his reasons of faith to look at him and love him. Because of Malvolio's dispositio... the center of the card... is a symbol. Their Mockingjay. They think I'm one of them” (Collins, 2008). President Snow thinks he is playing Plutarch, but in reality Plutarch is playing him. At the end of the book we learn that Plutarch and Katniss are more alike than we thought; the mockingjay is what drives them both. President Snow does not know that he is being silently defeated in his own arena. In conclusion, in the play “Twelfth Night”, by author William Shakespeare and in “The Hunger Games” trilogy, by author Suzanne Collins both express opinions about the rigid, hypocritical and naive attitudes of Malvolio and President Snow. Both of these characters used other individuals to get what they wanted to better themselves. But in that blindness they were defeated by the righteousness, decency and morality that were so much more appealing to the public..
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