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Pygmalion

The audience feels sorry for Eliza at the beginning of the play because she is all alone in the rain selling flowers. We can see the contrast between her and the richer characters and feel pity for her.

Throughout the rest of the play Eliza is annoying, the way she talks and overreacts to everything makes the audience dislike her. The author may have written her to be so annoying so that the audience would not like her and so that it would not be a typical play. One example of something that Eliza says that is annoying is “Ah-ah-ow-oo!” she repeats this many time throughout the play.

The audience dislikes Mr. Higgins because he is so perfect and is very hard to relate to as a real person. The way that he talks is very unrealistic, and he is not kind to the other characters.

Mr. Pickering on the other hand is liked by the audience because he so kind and generous towards everyone but especially Eliza.

The play overall leaves the audience very unsatisfied because we do not like how everything is resolved. The audience hopes that Mr. Higgins would fall in love with Eliza and that she would continue to live in his home . But the end of he play does not turn out like this and it effects the audience because it is inconclusive. “–Liza- Then I shall not see you again, Professor. Goodbye.” (page 89) This ending leaves the audience unsatisfied and disappointed.

Merchant Of Venice

Effect from Characters:

Antonio: The audience feels anger toward Antonio at the beginning of the play as he shows disrespect to Shylock as he is a Jew. “You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.” (17) We feel as though Antonio is taking advantage of Shylock when the bond is made, as Shylock makes a living off of interest, yet Antonio refuses to pay interest, but agrees to give a pound of flesh if he does not pay back on time. The audience starts to feel sorry for Antonio when he loses his ships out to sea, and then he cannot pay back his bond. The sympathy towards Antonio escalates as Shylock seeks revenge. Even though we know Antonio is racist, we feel sympathy towards him as he was just doing a favour to his best friend.

Shylock: The audience feels sympathy toward Shylock throughout most of the play. Since our generation looks down upon racist actions, we see that Shylock was being mistreated, and we feel sorry for him. The point where the audience feels anger and shock toward Shylock is when he is about to kill Antonio. We also take pity on Shylock when his daughter, Jessica, leaves him to marry a Christian. She takes all of his money, and she sells the ring that was from her mother. The audience is shocked that he would actually go through with his bond. The audience also feel sympathy towards shylock at the end of the play when he is left with nothing. “Nay, take my life and all; pardon not tat: you take my house, when you do take the prop that doth sustain my house; you take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.”(76)

General Effects:

The beginning of the play gives the audience of this era a shock on how the Jews are treated. We take pity on them and believe that they should not be treated in that way just because of their religious beliefs. The audience also feels shock during the court scene, where Shylock is about to take revenge on Antonio, and was going to kill him. The audience does not believe that Shylock would actually go through with such an action, and we take pity on Antonio, and anger toward Shylock. The ending of the play seems to have a satisfactory feeling as Portia and Bassanio are married, and everyone seems happy, besides Shylock.