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Antipholus The Comedy Of Errors

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This play called The Comedy of Errors in naturally chock-full of errors. These errors are mostly of mistaken identity thanks to the two sets of identical twins in this play. The twins do not try to act as their twin to fool people, they also do not know about their twin being in the city. The first error is in the very second scene when Antipholus of Syracuse sends Dromio of Syracuse to put his money away, and Dromio of Ephesus comes to him shortly after to bring Antipholus of Syracuse, thinking he is Antipholus of Ephesus, to dinner. Antipholus of Syracuse thinks that Dromio of Ephesus is Dromio of Syracuse and demands to know where he left his money. Dromio of Ephesus has no idea what he is talking about and continues to try to get him to come to dinner with his wife. In Act 2 Scene 1, Dromio of Syracuse returns to Antipholus of Syracuse who then questions why he acted as he did, referring to what Dromio of Ephesus had done. Then Adriana, Antipholus of Ephesus’s wife, enters and brings Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse to dinner thinking they are their brothers. Act II closes with Adriana saying …show more content…

The play opens with a coincidence. Egeon’s separation from his wife, one of his sons, and one of the slave boys is all just happenstance. It is also happenstance where each set of them ends up. In fact, everything that happens to Antipholus of Ephesus, his entire livelihood, resulted from the coincidental fact that he was “brought to this town by the most famous warrior” (5.1.368).
Most of the errors even involve some coincidences. Each time the wrong brother was run into, it could have just as easily been the right brother. It is a coincidence that Antipholus of Syracuse even meets Luciana, who he falls for. It is an even bigger coincidence that Luciana happens to be the sister to his brother’s wife. Everything in this play is just one big coincidence that somehow results in a

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