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The document discusses two main themes in the play Volpone: [1] Greed and folly, embodied by the characters Volpone, Mosca, and the legacy hunters who are all greedy for different things like money, sex, and inheritance. [2] Acting, as Volpone and Mosca pretend to be different people to deceive others and achieve their greedy goals, but Mosca ultimately deceives even Volpone.
The document discusses two main themes in the play Volpone: [1] Greed and folly, embodied by the characters Volpone, Mosca, and the legacy hunters who are all greedy for different things like money, sex, and inheritance. [2] Acting, as Volpone and Mosca pretend to be different people to deceive others and achieve their greedy goals, but Mosca ultimately deceives even Volpone.
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The document discusses two main themes in the play Volpone: [1] Greed and folly, embodied by the characters Volpone, Mosca, and the legacy hunters who are all greedy for different things like money, sex, and inheritance. [2] Acting, as Volpone and Mosca pretend to be different people to deceive others and achieve their greedy goals, but Mosca ultimately deceives even Volpone.
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mosca,volpone and clients.they are all greed 4 diffrenrt things like sex and money.corvino is ready to prostitute his own wife and corbaccio disinherit his son and mosca betrays his master corveno as we said before that he is ready to prostitute his wife after he appears as a jealous man when he sees his wife celia tossing her handkerchief to the street seller and he cosiders what happended a sign of celia's unfaithfulness and he thratened to kill her and her family as a result. and he panished her that she is not allowed to go to the church or stand near the window moreover ..... she must go everything backwords from nw on,but when mosca goes to him and says that if he let his wife go and sleep with volpone volpone will make him his heir so suddenly corvino's jealousy disappeared and he decieded to offer his wife to volpone
volpone is greed by many ways he was greed of money and
satisfying his desires.firestly he is greed of money as he facked illness to take pressents and money from the legacy hunters with the help of mosca who makes them all believe that volpone is very sick and he is about to die.volpone also describe gold as god and he belives that money can buy anything even love.secondely volpon's weak point is lust as he must satisia's love to the beaty of gold y his desire,when mosca compares celia's beauty to the beauty of gold he tries many ways to make her his own we disgiesed as a street seller and he seduces he and when she rejected him he thratened to rape her the last weak poinnt in volpone's character is his pride as he thought that no one can decieve him and he is decieving everybody but mosca decieves him at the end of the play
corbaccio is also greed as he disinheirt his son and choose
volpone as his heir cz he thinks that volpone will die soon and if he choose volpone volpone will choose him mosca is the one who is trying to decieve all the characters in the play by knowing the weak point in every one of them he is greed of money as he betrays his master :The theme of Acting
from the very begining of the play the theme of acting is a
major theme , it is represented by mosca and volpone volpone appears in 3 figure the first figure is as an old man who is about to die,the second one as a street seller who is selling medcin and the llast one a venetain guard and mosca iss the one who helps volpone in his plans volpon admits that his true passion is more for the game than what he gains from it but he was also greed of gold and money and he describes gold as god and he belives that money can buy anything even love.so he acted as a sick manwho is about to die and he decieves the legacy hunters by the help of his servant mosca as mosca tells everyone of the legacy hunters that volpone loves him and ....... he is always repeting his name and he will choose him as his heir in order to make everyone of them think that he will gain loads of money after volpone's death and brings him more presents
when mosca tella volpone that celia's beauty is like gold
volpone wanted very much to see her so he disguises as an italian street seller who is selling a new cure for all diseases and suffering and he sees celia and she toss him her handkerchief
when volpone asks mosca to tell the legacy hunters that
he is died he disguises as a venetian gaurd to see the action and reaction of each one of the legacy hunters without been recognized
but mosca decieves everybody even his master volpone
and mosca says that he will not let him return to the world of the living"unless volpone gives mosca a share of his wealth and when volpone realizes that he is betrayed he decieded not to let mosca inheirt him and he takes off his disguise and reveals the truth about the events of the past days
volpone was acting the hole play he was decieving the
legacy hunters but his pride makes him decieved by his servant