Volpone

One of the most profound and disturbing scenes in Volpone is that attemted seduction/rape scene with Celia after Volpone sings her that really creepy song and tries to buy her off with teasures. Around this time, in scene 3.7 lines 133-138, Celia cries out about how shameful it is that a man could trade and use his wife for greed. This scene shows that love which is usually argued to be the most important thing in the world is now worth less than money and therefore now it has made the men in this play dishonorable. This is of course after the scene where Corvino threatens Celia to do what he says or he will "grow violent" and she still refuses him. So this is when the reader feels very much sympathy towards poor Celia because she is threatened by two different men in as little as two pages.