Humor In Shakespeare's Comedy Of Errors

The Comedy of Errors is considered shortest play and one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies. Shakespeare used a lot of his own words that contains all different meanings for specific purposes, which he intends to say, because he loved to play with words. The play relies heavily on comedy and is largely based on the works of the Roman playwright of old Latin period (c. 254-184 BC). The story gives its humor from the improbability and complexity of the plot. Shakespeare brought the story of misguided identity involving identical twin brothers. The Comedy of Errors describes chaos and mistaken when the two sets of twins, Antipholus of Syracuse (Antipholus S.) and Antipholus of Ephesus (Antipholus E.), and their two servants, named Dromio. Antiphulus.S

I to the world am like a drop of water

That in the ocean seeks another drop; who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, Inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself. (Act I, Scene II, line 198) This passage is very interesting because the expression Antipholus S. used himself as ‘ a drop of water’ sounded it can have very different meanings in a variety way. It shows his feeling during his speech how he has been identifying himself from the past to present. The first question that came to my mind was that “Did he use this word in a positive or negative way?” ‘drop’ has some meanings of a quantity bearing an infinitesimally small proportion to the whole, the smallest separable quantity of a liquid, ,fall, together and a piece. Also, ‘water’ means tasteless, no smell, spiritual needs, desires and inferior in strength. Although the two words came up with some possible positive meanings, it can be summarized to separate, small, invisible and

is convincing himself he is no one and nothing. When he mentioned he feels like a drop of water that is fallen into the ocean to look for one other drop of water, he feels lonely and alone because he doesn’t know his mother and brother. He expresses his loneliness and his lack of fulfillment. He’s losing his own identity when he realized that he is losing his faith due to the discouragement experienced in knowing and finding himself, which results him to go visit places to seek his family and fellow forth to find a missing part of his identity. Identity is made up in what others think of us, what we think of others, and also relatively satisfied by what we think of ourselves. Antipholus S. is seeking an identity outside of himself through his fellow forth rather than trying to assert