Salerio and Salanio in the Merchant of Venice

Salerio and Salanio in the Merchant of Venice In the play The Merchant Of Venice, there are many prominent characters. There is Bassanio and Antonio, the wealthy business types and Shylock a scrutinized Jew. And of course three women, Portia, Nerissa and Jessica, who are to be wed by Bassanio, Lorenzo and Gratiano to complete this tragedy. Keep in mind that women were played by male actors in Shakespeare's plays. Each of these characters is …

…hear. They don’t form an opposing view and therefore contain the same bias of Antonio and Bassanio. To take Salerio and Salanio out of the play would create a lot of confusion as well as characters expressing all their emotions to the open air. Shakespeare had a good idea of what these two were in the play for and discluded who they are as characters which seems to work well for it’s audience.