Explaining who the Pantaloon was in the play by William Shakespeare.
In the play Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, the character Malvolio was a good example of a pantaloon. First, Malvolio was an extremely foolish man. For example, Malvolio was in love with a woman named Olivia. He tried to impress her and get her to marry him. But, Olivia was in morning for many years due to the deaths of her brother and father. Malvolio was unwise in pestering her to marry him, for she was unwilling to marry, especially a dirty old man. Also, in the play, Malvolio was easily tricked. Unfortunately, he was tricked often by Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. He believed a fake love note, that these men had written, was from Olivia. This ultimately gave Malvolio no chance of marrying Olivia, because of the foolish things he did, that the love note said to do. Finally, Malvolio even dressed like a mindless old man. One day he put on yellow stockings and went to visit Olivia, thinking yellow was her favorite color, as stated in phony love letter. Olivia was befuddled and confused as to Malvolio’s strange appearance, for she hated the color yellow. Because of all these characteristics, it can be concluded that in this play Malvolio was the comic stock character known as a pantaloon.
