Essay/Term paper: The merchant of venice: a tragic play

Essay, term paper, research paper:  Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice: A Tragic Play


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 most likely wrote this play The Merchant of Venice to
display how human greed could be so consuming to the soul of a person, which he
did very well if I may say so.

The spunk and enthusiasm of this play makes it engrossing to the reader
or viewer and also keeps the audience engaged in what is going to happen next.
The comicness is also brought out by each character by the necessary parameters
to do so for the viewer or reader. The Merchant of Venice also states that
supply and demand can vary depending on personal opinion and outlook from a
single personal view on the subject. Deriving a picture from this play is
extremely easy due the descriptive and emotional content of it.

Greed in The Merchant of Venice is the most popular and looked upon
subject in the whole entire play from where we are up to now in the class. In
my opinion greed in a bad thing almost all of the time. There are always
exceptions to everything. The reason why greed is so bad is because it turns
you into a bad person, usually. If you live in a void of greed there is
probably no hope you possibly wanting something just for the appreciation of it
or something else. Through the eyes are some characters where they don't even
realize what greed is because they are constantly surrounded by it.

In my personal opinion, I think that The Merchant of Venice is a decent
play, but not as good as some of William Shakespeare's other plays such as The
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello. No matter which play written
by William Shakespeare is looked at, it is classified as one of the greatest
plays in history and written by the most well known playwright.

The English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was the author of the
most widely admired and influential body of literature by any individual in the
history of Western civilization. His work consists of 36 plays, 154 sonnets,
and 2 narrative poems. Knowledge of Shakespeare is derived from two sources:
his works and those remains of legal and church records and contemporary
allusions through which scholars can trace the external facts of his life.

Shakespeare wrote his plays for performance, not publication, and
apparently took no part in their printing. Nineteen plays appeared in
individual quarto volumes before appearing in the First Folio. Some were
printed from texts reconstructed from memory by the actors, whereas others were
supplied to the printer by the company. Shakespeare's indifference to
publication creates problems in dating and establishing accurate texts for the
plays.

Through to the end of The Merchant of Venice, a final decision can be
extracted fully to weather the play is more comic than tragic or vice versa.
William Shakespeare is one who's works will never be forgotten and will be
taught to many generation to come in the later years.