'Twelfth Night' or 'Whatever You Will' falls into the sub-genre of festive comedy. The character Feste attacks authoritative figures during the last days of the Christmas period. Feste, seen as a fake mayor, often makes absurd statements aimed at Orsino and Olivia, surrounded by the feeling of love. However, since this play takes place during the holiday season, it lacks seriousness, which also reflects the decisions Orsino and Olivia make in the epilogue. But because love is a motivating force, for both Olivia and Orsino it pushes them to perform crazy acts that convey the many social messages that emerge in the play. On the other hand, characters like Malvolio, face difficult situations that lead him to take himself too seriously and therefore become a hypocrite despite being "kind of a puritan". Since Malvolio the Puritan is a killjoy. From the figure we can see that Shakespeare is attacking the conservative. Furthermore, Shakespeare punishes Malvolio in such a way as to bring him down, but towards the end of the play in Act 4 Scene 2 the audience shows sympathy towards him while Feste (disguised as Sir Topas) convinces him to believe that he is mad in which case he he replies 'Believe me, I'm not. I tell you the truth." When Malvolio says "Believe me" it shows that he is sure that he has not gone mad, while "Believe me" shows that he has faith in the truth. Furthermore, since Malvolio is a puritan, by saying "I tell you the truth", the audience he believes him because he knows that in Puritanism lying is not accepted Likewise, when Malvolio stopped Feste, Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria from "making a beer-house at [his] lady's house", this shows. that there are some elements of seriousness in... middle of paper ...any satirical statements about authoritative figures like Orsino and Olivia are made to seem nonsensical They can be seen as silly because of the way the comic resolution presented them and of the choices they have made regarding who to marry. Similarly, Malvolio can also be seen as an attack on authority as Shakespeare mocks the old world characters. Similarly, when Sir Toby and Maria are married, Shakespeare attacks even authoritative figures, but like that doing Shakespeare shows that "Twelfth Night" lacks seriousness because throughout the play both comic characters are seen engaging in excessive laughter. Furthermore, Olivia and Orsino's hasty marriage to Sebastian and Viola indicates that this festive comedy has a light ending which therefore proves that 'Twelfth Night' is a banal comedy in which even authority is attacked.