what is Antonio's mood in the beginning of the play the merchant of venice? what do you feel is the apparent reason behind it? how do his friends try to bring him out of this? illustrate with examples in about 250-300 words
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Antonio's mood in the beginning of the play was filled with melancholy and sadness. For some reason he himself did not know the origin of his melancholy and complained about it to his friends saying that it made him tired.
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There is no such apparent reason but his friends tried to guess it. They said he mind was tossing in the ocean because he was tensed and worried about his ships which were busy in the midst of windy ocean.
The second reason was that perhaps he was in love and had a sad experience about it.
His friends try to cheer him up by telling all these above reasons and saying what they would have done if they were in his place. In this scene we also see that Gratiano tries in vain to cheer up Antonio.