Explain in brief some characters of Antonio
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Antonio is the title character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. An influential, powerful and wealthy nobleman of Venice, he is a middle-aged man and a merchant by trade who has his financial interests tied up in overseas shipments when the play begins.
Antonio is a wealthy merchant in the city of Venice he is a leading citizen,commanding great respect when he is first introduce to us in the play he is in a melancholy mood his friends ask him if he is feeling melancholy becoz of all his ships are at sea facing all sorts of dangers from storms and from rocks but he tell them that he is not at all feeling worried about that safety of his ships he then tells them that his melancholy is something natural to him something temperamental or inborn he says that he looks upon this world as the stage of a theater on which every man has to play a part his own part being that of a sad man thus melancholy may be regarded as one of the principle traits of his character.