Volpone

For this play I don't see how anyone could sympathize with any of the characters. At first I just thought that Mosca and Volpone were the only ones to blame since they were the ones doing all of the conning but looking back at it, everyone deserves a little bit of the blame. All of the possibly heirs are only in it for the money so they deserve everything they got, especially Corvino. It is disgusting how he would just put forth his wife against her wishes just for the money even though it would mean that Volpone lives. The only way he would have even gotten the money is if Volpone died. 

I do feel as though Volpone wasn't as good as Mosca was at conning people. Volpone seemed to be the one coming up with the initial cons, but Mosca made sure that they went according to plan. Volpone would be the one sitting in bed pretending to be sick while Mosca was the on running around telling all of the lies. Without Mosca, Volpone would have nothing. I think in the end, Mosca realizes this so cons Volpone into giving him the house.

The only person in this whole play that you can somewhat sympathize with is Bonario. He truly gets duped by Mosca into believing that his father is going to take away his inheritance. This could be something believable except for the fact that Mosca tells Bonario that he tells lies all the time. Bonario tries to be the savior and saves Celia and then in the end winds up being accused of being her lover and lying about the whole thing. In the end though, the truth does come out. This play shows just about everything that people will do for greed and money.