When speaking of selling penny stocks to rich suckers, he says something along the lines of the rich people being moby dick, and that he'll teach these salesman to be captain Ahab. Just like in the play, hints are given about Jordan's demise, the most notable to me being the scene where he gives a speech to his fledgling salesman of Stratton Oakmont.
His speeches to the camera remind me of Richard's soliloquies, both using their wit and silver tongue to make us invested in their activities even though we would be against them in any other case.
Jordan Belfort is the vice of avarice, in the beginning he lays out clearly that his biggest addiction is money and making money. All of this got me thinking about the similarities between a morality play and Wolf of Wall Street. I also believe that these types of stories also tend to be tragedies. Even though our morals are not aligned with the vice, we sort of cheer him on anyway and are entertained as we see him trick and manipulate those around him.
The main character is the vice who, typically, at the beginning of the play lays out his plots in a soliloquy to the audience. At the beginning, my professor talked about how the Richard III was a morality play and then elaborated on the typical structure of one. This quarter I'm taking a class of Shakespeare and we are just finishing up Richard III.
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