The Dynamic Duo in Volpone
While Mosca and Volpone, the "dynamic duo" in this play, share many similarities, they are still different enough to compliment one another. On one hand, both characters are alike in that they share a common lust for deceit, making their living by tricking others. They take delight in conjuring up and performing elaborate schemes in order to fool people. This becomes a game for the two of them, which they both enjoy playing immensely. Perhaps the common love of this game is what knits
Volpone's heart so tightly to Mosca's.
On the other hand, Mosca seems to be a little sharper and wittier than Volpone. Where Volpone tends to be slightly dull or slow, Mosca makes up for his lack by being ingenious for him. For example, in act 3.4,
Volpone boils in frustration because he cannot successfully persuade or trick Lady Would-be into leaving his presence. He attempts to make her leave several times, but is ineffective. Finally, at the height of his despair, Mosca walks in, and with one breath, comes up with a brilliant falsehood that sends Lady Would-be running out the door. This unfailing ability of Mosca's to invent schemes while under pressure is what makes him so useful to Volpone and keeps the duo together. Mosca's quick thinking compliments Volpone's slow wit.
Another characteristic that Mosca possesses in abundance that
Volpone does not necessarily have is the ability to flatter. Throughout the play, Mosca displays a clever ability to play off of other people's pride by inflating their egos so that they will be consumed with their own vanity. Then, once the other person has his eyes solely on himself, he is vulnerable to fall for any scheme of
Mosca's. This tricky character plays this game of flattery with almost every character in the play, including Volpone.
Because Volpone is not witty enough to see that his side-kick treats him with the same craftiness that he uses on the clients, he is
First of all, self-reliance of which many examples can be found throughout the play. For example, Henry
Weakness is often described as a lack of strength, power, or ambition. However, there are rare cases where a weakness can instead be an abundance of these qualities that ends up becoming adverse. In the Greek play, Oedipus, by Sophocles, Oedipus has a superfluous buildup of willpower and might that cultivates three major flaws in his character. Despite his attributes and qualifications that secured him his title as King of Thebes, Oedipus’s absence of rationality, his impetuosity, and his egotistical behavior end up bringing about his abject fate.
shown in the play as a good king, who is a much respected character by
equal (Act II, Scene 6, Line 4) which is a very intelligent thing to say.
that, in the belief of the time, would damn his soul. In fact, in one soliloquy in Act III,
Born in 1881, the son of Jose Ruiz Blaso and Maria Picasso Lopez. Young Picasso at the start of age 7 had lessons involving art from his father. His father taught figure drawing and oil painting to him at that point. Pablo started his first oil paintings as portraits of his family eventually doing caricatures of villagers. By 13 he was working on his own oil paintings. In 1895 he lost his younger sister to diphtheria. (Pablo Picasso's Early Life - Before 1901).
mere jester in the eyes of the King, because he was also a cripple and
...es are what led him to become a tragic hero because without them he would have been sane and not destroy his own life. His loyalties were tarnished by the influences he let in his life and helped him become a cruel, cold, heap of a man that murdered his friends.
Did not care who got in his way or who had to die in order to get to his uncle. Hamlet killed his
interfere with his relations with his family and community after he meets with the devil, which causes him to live the life of an exile in his own community.
Aristotle’s tragic hero is made up of three requirements. The protagonist of the play must be a person of high estate. This allows the protagonist to fall from power or happiness to create a tragedy. The next requirement is the protagonist mus...
The noble characters, Oedipus and Willy rely on things of substantial value in their lives, but then unfortunately fail, further deepening their harmatia. In Arthur Millers’ essay “Tragedy and the Common Man,” he does not believe that just nobility and power over others is inadequate to just judge a select few:
Tragic heroes tend to have very pre-determined paths; usually making the most virtuous of characters destined to suffer. The hamartia or ‘tragic flaw’ is the typical reason the hero falls. Shakespeare was noted to be one of the best writers of tragedies, one of his most prominent to be Othello. In Othello, we find a number of tragic flaws two including pride and ambition. In William Shakespeare’s play, Othello, pride and ambition are used to identify the outcomes for the main characters in the play when seeing the resolution of the play, perceiving those who survive and those who don’t, and considering each character’s role in the turn of events.
Explained by Aristotle, the characteristics of a good tragic hero must be “better than we are,” a man who is superior to the average man in some way. A man one might say closely resembles Oedipus Rex. But Oedipus is more imperfect than perfect, as he commits his actions in haste and is unable to see what is happening around him. His hamartia was the main reason for his downfall. In the play Oedipus Rex, Oedipus demonstrates his errors in judgement through his hubris, blindness, and foolishness and therefore is at fault. Oedipus’s great hubris led him to a path where he couldn’t come back from. His blindness and ignorance to the truth caused Oedipus to take actions that he thought would aid him escape the prophecy told by the oracle. His actions justify the line of events that occur in the play.
Hamlet is the best known tragedy in literature today. Here, Shakespeare exposes Hamlet’s flaws as a heroic character. The tragedy in this play is the result of the main character’s unrealistic ideals and his inability to overcome his weakness of indecisiveness. This fatal attribute led to the death of several people which included his mother and the King of Denmark. Although he is described as being a brave and intelligent person, his tendency to procrastinate prevented him from acting on his father’s murder, his mother’s marriage, and his uncle’s ascension to the throne.