How is Malvolio a comic character? Act 3 Scene 4

... How is Malvolio a comic character? Act 3 Scene 4 Malvolio is a comic character throughout Twelfth Night, especially in Act 3 Scene 4. The scene revolves around him acting on the love letter he finds, which he believes to be from Olivia. Malvolio secretly wishes to be more than just a steward to his mistress. When he finds the letter Maria leaves behind to trick him, he falls into the trap and makes a fool of himself. In this scene, his comic character comes through in the forms of slapstick humour, puns, dramatic irony, comedy of manners and ridicule. Malvolio does what the love letter tells him that he must do in order to prove his love to Olivia, and this includes wearing yellow-stockings in cross-gartered fashion. "Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs." In reality Olivia actually hates the colour yellow and cross-garters. Yet he shows

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