Shakespeare’s plays is discussed. The role of women varies in each play. The women evil found in Lady Macbeth‚ beauty and wisdom found in Portia‚ daughterly love and sacrificing nature found in Cordelia and the weak nature and dependence on others found in Gertrude‚ each one of them has her own uniqueness. Role of Women Two main characters i.e. Lady Macbeth and Portia are discussed to highlight the role of women in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “The Merchant of Venice”. Both these characters are very
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Messages in Shakespeare’s Works Many of Shakespeare’s plays give one of the main characters a soliloquy or a speech in which they deal with the play’s key issues. There are three particular speeches that have been spoken about for many centuries because of their underlying messages- Katharina’s final speech in The Taming of the Shrew‚ Portia’s speech in The Merchant of Venice‚ and Hamlet’s soliloquy in Hamlet. In The Taming of the Shrew‚ Katharina gives the final speech of the play. She speaks
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I know this secret I grant I am a women‚ but with all a women that Lord Brutus took a wife.” Portia is trying to tell Brutus that he should say his secret because he chose her as a wife‚ he can trust her. Brutus thinks he is keeping her safe‚ but really she just wants to know. Portia thinks he is being pompous and wants to defend his honor in the conspiracy and not look like a coward if he tells Portia and she tries to change his
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Miss Maudie: • holds different views from those of the majority of townspeople; • she demonstrates courage when she is contrasted to others in the novel less tolerant than she‚ e.g. to the intolerant Mrs Dubose; to the empty-headed Miss Stephanie Crawford particulary in the matter of the children in the court; to the strict Baptists (she is condemned to hell) for loving her garden – “time spent indoors was time wasted”; • Scout appreciates Miss Maudie’s goodness which the latter maintains in
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role as a woman by Aunt Alexandra‚ ‚ Calpurnia‚ Miss Caroline‚ and Miss Maudie‚ who all live under certain restrictions. Calpurnia was more of an influence at the beginning of the novel. She loved Scout and Jem like her own children. Calpurnia disciplined them like a mother‚ and loved them like a mother as well. By taking them to her church and telling Scout she could come to her house‚ she crossed a barrier from “housemaid” to a friend or a guardian. Calpurnia tells Scout about why she talks
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Male or female‚ black or white‚ gay or straight‚ everybody matures in his or her lifetime. Brad‚ Calpurnia‚ and Wemmick experience defining moments including the psychological advancement in each characters’ behavior that reveals the effects of forcing people to conform to society’s expectations. In Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower‚ Brad is a gay adolescent who is required to betray his inner feelings and true self due to the threats from his father and the judgmental views of
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nigger-talk. She says to Calpurnia: why do you talk nigger-talk to the to your folks when you its not right? White-folks talk‚ to some extent‚ does symbolise intelligence as only white people attended school at that time. This makes you wonder where Scout learnt this from because Atticus would not have told her this. She must have learnt it from school or neighbours which shows how racist Maycomb society is. There is a lot of tension and hatred between black and white people. Calpurnia explains to Jem and
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Emended and Rectified with Notes and Commentary by Jonathan Star DRAMATIS PERSONÆ DUKE OF VENICE PRINCE OF MOROCCO (MOROCHO -Q1‚ MOROCHUS-Q1) PRINCE OF ARRAGON (ARAGON ) A suitors to Portia ANTONIO (ANTHONIO -Q1 )‚ a merchant of Venice‚ friend of Bassanio BASSANIO ‚ winner of Portia LEONARDO ‚ a servant to Bassanio GRATZIANO (GRATIANO -Q1‚ GRAZIANO )‚ friend of Bassanio‚ with Nerissa LORENZO (LORENSO )‚ friend of Gratziano‚ with Jessica SALARINO | SALANIO -Q1 (SOLANIO -Q1)
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<center><b>Show how the plot of The Merchant of Venice’ is apparently fanciful but in reality exactingly structured.</b></center> <br> <br>"The Merchant of Venice is a fairy tale. There is no more reality in Shylock’s bond and the Lord of Belmont’s will than in Jack and the Beanstalk." <br>H. Granville-Barker‚ in Prefaces to Shakespeare. <br> <br>This is one way of looking at the play‚ reading it or enjoying the performance. But it can be a contradiction to our actual feelings about this complex
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uses this stereotypical image in this play. For instance‚ Portia has to obey her father’s will and marry whoever chooses the casket with her picture in it. Portia is upset that she does not get to choose who she marries. Portia says‚ “I may neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father”.(Shakespeare 1.2.22) This shows that her father has the power to do this. Portia has no choice over her future and whatever she has planned
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