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Explore the Dramatic Interest of Act I in The Merchant of Venice

The play opens with Antonio, the Merchant of Venice, speaking about his deep sadness to his friends, Salarino and Solanio, although he is at a loss to explain why he is so sad. This immediately intrigues the audience and forces them to wonder why he is in such a melancholy mood themselves. Antonio's depression is coupled with Portia's own similar weariness (Line I, Scene II), whose opening line echoes Antonio's. Shakespeare contrasts their two separate worlds very effectively, comparing the world of downtown Venice - a gritty, male world dominated by business, politics and conflict - and that of Belmont, which is a dream-like, female space in which thoughts of love and marriage prevail. These two characters feeling almost identical feelings in parallel worlds tells the audience that it is inevitable that they will come together in some way. A dramatic device used throughout the first act is tension. Various elements of the plot are woven together in such a way that we are often left on a mini cliffhanger, wondering what will happen next. First of all, there is of course the bond, when Shylock demands a "pound of flesh" off Antonio if he is not paid back soon enough. Antonio takes the bond lightly; but Bassanio is suspicious of it from the start: "I like not fair terms and a villain's mind". The audience knows that the deal will have bad consequences, despite Antonio's ignorance to this fact. There are many moments when we are primed about the vulnerability of Antonio's ships from Salarino's comment about "the harm a wind too great might do at sea" which is reinforced when Shylock talks of "pirates - and then there is the peril of waters, winds and rocks". Another example where Shakespeare uses tension to keep the audience interested is with the Prince of Morocco. We hear

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