Merchant of Venice

Essay by Chaz GuarinoHigh School, 10th grade January 1996

download word file, 3 pages 3.3

Downloaded 113 times

The Merchant of Venice

In my opinion the play The Merchant of Venice is a tragic one which is discised as being comic. Many factors of this play are derived from the current voice of situation. The Merchant of Venice could be looked at as more tragic because of the negative intents from some of the characters in the play.

Greed and deception are just a couple of the main features from where many of the decisions are derived. For example, revenge was an intent that Sylock had against for Antonio, only to say the least for, greed... Antonio is being a set victim for revenge because of his deception against Shylock, and also for prior intent to do.

If The Merchant of Venice was to be looked at as more comic, the scenarios wouldn't be taken as seriously as they should be. Infact I believe that The Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare was officially intended to be so in both comic and tragic.

In depth looking and observing The Merchant of Venice I have seen a small equivalency in the amount of comicness and tragedy in the play.

I have come up with the conclusion that William Shakespeare was a great playwright and must have been an absolute genius to compose the great and wonderful things that he did. The Merchant of Venice is excellent in it's way of describing the characters. The emotion is spread out thoroughly like warm butter on hot toast. The tragedy in The Merchant of Venice is believable and almost true in a sense of my opinion in relating to greed, human desire, and most important let not forget, anguish.

Throughout The Merchant of Venice there are many strong feelings displayed through powerful lines of contemporary nature, to be truthful. William Shakespeare...