Volpone
The play Volpone is certainly a study of avarice or greed, one of the
seven deadly sins. Gold or wealth or fortune is an obsession with all the
principle characters of the play. Every action of the play is dominated by
greed.
Volpone, the protagonist of the play is passionately in love with gold.
He elevates gold above the sun and gold becomes to him the centre of the
universe. He compared gold to a dump god. To him gold are the source of virtue,
fame, honor and all others things.
He says,
Thou art virtue, fame
Honor, and all things else. Who can get thee?
He shall be noble, valiant, honest, and wise
The legacy hunters Voltore, Corvino, Corbaccio are greedy. To acquire
Vopone’s wealth, Voltore brought a costly antique plate as a gift to please
Volpone. Corbaccio agrees to disinherit his own innocent son, Bonario, to
inherit Volpone’s wealth; and to be a sole heir of Volpone’s wealth Corvino was ready to prostitute his beautiful
wife Celia. For gold Lady would be offers her body.
Moosca is THE PARASITE Of Volpone. But he has a keen idea in this mind to
obtain the property of Volpone. He has been during the legacy hunter to please
his master. But the end of the play, Mosca appears in these true colors. Now he
decides to cheat his own master and set to him up as the rightful owner of the
property.
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In the light of the above discussion, we may conclude
that most of the characters of this play are moved by the greed of gold. Celia
and Bonario are the only characters who remain untouched by the infection of
the prevent craze for gold. Thus the world of this play is crudely
materialistic and gold centred.
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