Though the most corrupt character in the world of any play, Valpone’s vitality and delight in life make him irresistibly attractive to us

It would be or so impossible for the audience of this satirical comedy, Valpone not to be moved, if not shocked by the larger than life, suddenly corrupt caliber of Valpone. He evokes both disgust and a wayward sense of admiration as we ar presented to someone who is so tout ensemble vacant in compassion. We are almost in awe of this char operationer who has no fear of punishment for his sins in this world or the next, moreover the realisation that his ugliness is so strong and overbearing that he longs to enrapture the personification of innocence is chilling and late disturbing. Remorseless, dearless and careless, Johnson gives us a character not like any early(a) and sets him in renascence Venice, the ideal place and time for such a tyrant and his parazoan to thrive.Valpones gilt is his god, and he in turn worships it as such superb morning to the day and, next, my goldOpen the shrine, that I may reckon my saint.This opening speech is drenched with religious imagery , this blasphemous language shows no fear of retribution and this is backed up when he reveals that for him hell would be made heaven if he had gold there. Ironic altogethery it is the control that capital and possessions wear over Valpone that bring about his d receivef every(prenominal), for man he is deeply cunning, witty and intelligent he continuously overr apiecees, blinded and seduced by money. We are immediately appealed and appalled by this foreboding fascination for riches for although it is blue it shows an amazing strength of character to turn his back completely on religion and its threat of eternal punishment. However his misery and stinginess are untoward qualities that fail to lure the audience. Here he shows the familiar characteristics of a fox, in that it is the chase not the kill that brings the thrill, i.e. he takes sheer pleasure in break uping his peers, and has no need for the money that he gains in doing so, excerpt perhaps for looking at.Another unat tractive quality found in Valpone is his void of affection and love, he exploits his freakish bastard children, using them as a source them for entertainmentCall forth my dwarf, my eunuch and my foolAnd let em make me sportJohnson has added these abnormals not only as a comic restbite but to give let us see the moderate of Volpones inner corruption externalised. Even his seemingly pleasant relationship with Mosca is build solely on flattery and humouring each other, they do not love each other, but instead need each other, their parasite and entertain relationship is inter-reliant and interdependent.With the aid of Mosca, Valpone sets out to bring down each of the other ravenous characters in turn. Although it is Johnsons desire to inform and instruct he allows us to become amused by their a deterrent example scheme and their amazing double act of trickery, due to the other characters gullibility, as each of them have too been septic by the degenerate disease of avarice. Their g reed has given Valpone three days to enjoy playing with their hopes and their ignorance allows Valpone to continually take pleasure in allow the cherry knock against their lipsThese legacy hunters, aware of the effective threat of each other, bring presents, each trying to outdo the other, naively trusting Mosca as their vector to Valpones treasure. This old Italian tradition encourages such behaviour, and although this play is fictional, it is base on the diseased Italy which was rotten to the core with corruption.In his pretended dying(p) state Valpone lacks the opportunity to show off linguistically, his plan requires Mosca to do his deception and deceiving for him. Ironically however the materialisation of Moscas plan sees Valpone disguised as a mountebank. In this masque Valpone successfully woes the crowd, his exhibitionist side is exposed, he is convincing and entertaining, his dazzling sales pitch deceives the crowd, making them think that they are purchasing a great product at a bargain monetary valueI am content to be deprived of it for sixValpone as Scotto of Mantua purge manages to accomplish verbally seducing the virtuous Celia into dropping her hanky with his coarse and soft language.Only that Valpone disgustingly tries to pervert and despoil the innocent and bonny Celia he would almost seem heroic. Till this point there is almost a sense of fairness in that he gulls those equally egotistic and greedy, in a simplistic term one bad khat taking from another. He is superior to those waiting to gorge on his the Great Compromiser in that he has a sense of dignity, demands a sense of paying attention and is so warped in arrogance it is humorous. However, in his attempted rape his evilness takes a step too far, while we may have forgiven him for duping the melodramatic Bonario out of his inheritance there is no repentance in his attempt to take Celia without her will.yield or Ill force theeThe sympathy we felt up for Valpone in Act three S cene four when confronted with the garrulous tremendous Lady Would-be has been dissolved, her sin was that of being irritating, vain and boring, while all ugly qualities her seduction lacks the malice the violence and pure evil of rape. This is when the gag stops and the audience is forced to look introspectively at their own moral values.The play narrowly escapes with a happy ending, Johnson ensures that no matter how persuading or entertaining the corrupt were, they are punished, full of vitality and life, or not, while the good are absolved. It is not the stereotypical good overcoming evil resolve, as neither Celia or Bonario, the only evidence of innocence throughout the play, carried practically characteristic weight being two dimensional and shallow. The result is that evil overreaches and destroys itself.Valpone although a mastermind is left to wither away at an asylum, and without his gold to keep him company he his left to rot in his own hell. The audience was tempted an d seduced by his explosive personality and the life that oozed out of him, even when feigning sick. Although hyperbolised and exaggerated he was the emphasis of human folly, we are all to a degree driven by greed, we too are tempted by wrong and dishonesty, and that is the very reason that the character of Valpone appeals to us.