How Strong Are Family Ties In The Comedy Of Errors

Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” raises the central question of “how strong are family ties?” Seperated at the birth by the sea, both set of twins eventually come back together and are reunited. Families can have different degrees of strength in their connection, but all families have a special connection. This central questions help shows the importance of family and that family ties are resilient. After being separated at birth by the sea neither Antipholuses were aware of their twin. Although the twins did not have a childhood together or were in contact they were still brothers and were eventually brought back together. The question of how strong are family ties is answered when the entire family becomes reunited. When both Antipholuses, their mother, and father are reunited the central question becomes answered. The strength of family is never breakable no matter the circumstances. When both twins are involved in the farse, comical confusion of who is who it seemed as if the problem would never be solved and that the family would never

That final line of the play really solidifies the answer of the strength that family ties have. A central question of how strong are family ties that eventually is answered by having both families be reunited helps create my understanding of the work as a whole; family ties are unbreakable. Even though the families were different they still had strong a family connection, they were brought back together and were happily reconnected. “The Comedy of Errors” raises a question of family ties and its strength and answer the question by reuniting families and this shows Shakespeare’s stance on how strong and power a family’s connection