the merry wives of windsor analysis
The Merry Wives of Windsor CHARACTER DESCRIPTION:
Mistress Page: a resident of Windsor that is married to Master Page and is friends with Mistress Ford. Later on in the play Mistress Ford and Mistress Page decide to lead Falstaff on and ruin him after he sends the same seducing letter to them.
Ford: Married to Mistress Ford who tends to be jealous of his wife when Falstaff tries to seduce his wife so he puts on a disguise and goes to garters inn to find out information from Falstaff about the seducing of his wife.
Falstaff: a Knight that tries to seduce Mistress Ford and Mistress Page to gain access to their husbands cash but fails , he is a very mischievous lively character but also very cowardly.
Sir Hugh Evans: Sir Hugh Evans is the local clergyman. He's Welsh accent so his English is hard to understand and he gets made fun of it by the citizens and the host. Later on he and Caius who also has an accent make a plan for revenge against the host for always humiliating them
Caius: The local doctor who has a thick French accent that the citizens find amusing but he is hard to understand so they taunt him about it. He hopes to marry the daughter of Page and Mistress Page favors him to marry her daughter but sadly Anne Page the daughter of Page does not love him
Anne Page: Daughter of Page and Mistress Page that puts up with the rivalry of her parents trying to choose who she will marry but Anne does not love any of her parents choices , her heart belongs to Fenton but her parents will not listen to her wishes so she sneaks away and gets married with Fenton.
Fenton – Fenton was high-born but poor but Anne loves him and when he got to know Anne, he fell in love with her and the two marry at the end.
Slender: Page favors him to marry his daughter because he thinks he is a good match for her but doesn’t end up marrying her.
Shallow - Shallow is a figure of the law that helped shallow to seduce Anne sort of like playing his wingman.
Mistress Page: a resident of Windsor that is married to Master Page and is friends with Mistress Ford. Later on in the play Mistress Ford and Mistress Page decide to lead Falstaff on and ruin him after he sends the same seducing letter to them.
Ford: Married to Mistress Ford who tends to be jealous of his wife when Falstaff tries to seduce his wife so he puts on a disguise and goes to garters inn to find out information from Falstaff about the seducing of his wife.
Falstaff: a Knight that tries to seduce Mistress Ford and Mistress Page to gain access to their husbands cash but fails , he is a very mischievous lively character but also very cowardly.
Sir Hugh Evans: Sir Hugh Evans is the local clergyman. He's Welsh accent so his English is hard to understand and he gets made fun of it by the citizens and the host. Later on he and Caius who also has an accent make a plan for revenge against the host for always humiliating them
Caius: The local doctor who has a thick French accent that the citizens find amusing but he is hard to understand so they taunt him about it. He hopes to marry the daughter of Page and Mistress Page favors him to marry her daughter but sadly Anne Page the daughter of Page does not love him
Anne Page: Daughter of Page and Mistress Page that puts up with the rivalry of her parents trying to choose who she will marry but Anne does not love any of her parents choices , her heart belongs to Fenton but her parents will not listen to her wishes so she sneaks away and gets married with Fenton.
Fenton – Fenton was high-born but poor but Anne loves him and when he got to know Anne, he fell in love with her and the two marry at the end.
Slender: Page favors him to marry his daughter because he thinks he is a good match for her but doesn’t end up marrying her.
Shallow - Shallow is a figure of the law that helped shallow to seduce Anne sort of like playing his wingman.