Merchant of venice
The Storytellers in The Merchant of Venice In this play two characters have a bigger role than one might imagine. Salerio and Solanio are the storytellers in The Merchant of Venice. They fill in important information that the audience needs to full understand the play. First, the two names differ by only a few letters, they are so close that one might confuse the two and think that they are the same person. I feel that this is Shakespeare's intention in this play. He makes the two similar so that they are not very important to the plot of the play. At the same time they are two different people, not just a narrator. I feel that Shakespeare does this so that he can have the two characters speaking to each other. It is through their, Salerio and Solanio, interactions that the audience learns important information to the plot of the play. At the opening of the play three characte
There is no use for the two storyteller characters because everything else is acted out. Since the action of the play has mostly been involving Bassanio and Portia, Salerio arrives to tell Bassanio of the trouble Antonio is in back in Venice: "Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind/Nor well, unless in mind. There is only the court scene and the final scene left in the play. , Antonio's] letter there/Will show you his estate [i. Through the dialogue, Salerio informs the audience of Antonio's ships: "Your mind is tossing on the ocean/There where your argosies [ i. Those two scenes tell their own story with no breaks in the action. Here they tell of many events that have happened: Bassanio's ship setting off and Gratiano going with him; Shylock's reaction to Jessica and his ducats being gone; a Venetian ship that is wrecked in the English Channel; and also the parting between Antonio and Bassanio. Through their conversations, the two have given the audience a basis for the play: that Antonio is a merchant and that he is not concerned about being in love.
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