Comedy Of Errors Research Paper

The Comedy of Errors is known as one of Shakespeare’s earliest play and it is also his first comedy. This play was about two sets of twin after several years getting lost, they met each other but they were being mistaken with their twin, and even though their appearances were the same but their behavior, attitude, or personality were different. From that, many dramatic ironies happened with the twins, Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse.

Antipholus of Ephesus was a respected merchant in Ephesus, he was also known as a bellicose man, who was in quest of tricks and drinks. In the beginning of the play, we can easily know that he was a rich man, who was full of wealth, comfortable home, business associates who respect him,

He was restless, anxious about the rest of his family. On the other hand, Antipholus of Ephesus - his brother, he seemed like didn’t care much about finding his family because he already had a great life, he didn’t ask for more. He felt no such sense of incompletion. Even when he met his father, Egeon, he told him that “I never saw my father in my life”. He didn’t want to reunite his family. He was less sympathic than his brother. So we can see that, even though they were siblings, more than that, they were twins but besides their appearances were alike, but their behaviour, the way they act were nothing similar. That was the reason why when people were mistaken between two of them, they thought there was something magical, or evil spirits, “same” person but different

In the play, we can notice that the way how brothers of Antipholus treated their slaves have some similarity. Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse both used violence and revilement to behave the Dromios. But Dromio of Ephesus had to withstand worse than his brother because Antipholus of Ephesus can easily get angry, responding to every new challenge with anger, violence and a lack of