Original Text | Modern Text | | Enter ANTONIO‚ SALARINO‚ and SOLANIO | ANTONIO‚ SALARINO‚ and SOLANIO enter. | 5 | ANTONIOIn sooth‚ I know not why I am so sad.It wearies me; you say it wearies you.But how I caught it‚ found it‚ or came by it‚What stuff ’tis made of‚ whereof it is born‚I am to learn.And such a want-wit sadness makes of me‚That I have much ado to know myself. | ANTONIOTo be honest‚ I don’t know why I’m so sad. I’m tired of it‚ and you say you’re tired of it too. But I have
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Shylock and Antonio resent and dislike one another. Firstly‚ Shylock hates Antonio because he is a Christian; secondly‚ because Antonio is a Christian and therefore not allowed to charge interest‚ Antonio undercuts Shylock’s business by lending money without charging interest. The fact that Shylock does loan money and charges interest is another reason for Antonio not to like him. As a businessman‚ Antonio must resent Shylock’s ability to earn extra money by charging interest. We know that Shylock
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A Two-Faced "Lady Richly Left" (1.1.161). In the play The Merchant of Venice‚ Shakespeare reveals Portia’s character in a variety of different ways. She seems to have multiple personalities‚ and it is very difficult for one to conclude whether she is kind or cruel. For example‚ she could be said to be prejudiced and sly‚ while also very caring. Portia is quick to judge others on appearances and first impressions. In scene II‚ when Portia is discussing her suitors with Nerissa‚ she explains all
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George Orwell’s Animal Farm contains a particular character named Napoleon‚ a fierce-looking Berkshire boar. Napoleon is conniving‚ a plagiarist and manipulative. At a meeting‚ when the animals had to make a decision‚ Orwell showed Napoleon’s first conniving scheme‚ “Napoleon stood up and‚ casting a peculiar sidelong look at Snowball‚ uttered a high-pitched whimper...dashed straight for Snowball‚ who only sprang from his place just in time to escape their snapping jaws” (Orwell 39). Here the dogs
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All animals are equal‚ but some animals are more equal than others” How does George Orwell show this statement to be true in his novel Animal Farm? Orwell shows the readers in his text‚ Animal Farm‚ an idea of inequality between the animals in many different ways. Some examples are through change over time‚ power and through the pigs and their role of education. One way Orwell shows inequality in his text Animal Farm is through change over time. It is shown in the beginning of the novel that
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Animal Farm: The Animals’ Bad Memories Almost all the animals had a very bad memory so they were not able to remember things of major signifigance. After a little while the pigs would mention the past and the animals would not remember what had happened so they would agree with the pigs. The the battle of cowshed‚ snowball was a very herioic animal in that battle but Neapolean said that that was not true that there memory had deceived them‚ that snowball was just trying to get them to trust
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Animal Farm Animal Farm shows how society functions by using animals instead of humans. At the beginning‚ Napoleon treats his followers fairly. He respected them first‚ but at the end‚ he treated them extremely poorly. “Vote for Napoleon and he’ll fully take care of the farm‚” (Orwell‚ Page 50) In the evidence‚ Napoleon treat the animals like citizens and let them vote for him. At the beginning of his reign‚ he helped out with the farm a bit. “Napoleon ended of his speech with his usual
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Their Skin Cut off for Defaulting on a Loan.’ But I found the work to be not as comedic and happy as that ending implies. This is a happy ending if you identify and sympathize with those characters that triumph in the end. But reading this play in this day and age‚ Shylock becomes a much more sympathetic character. We look at Shylock through our knowledge of injustice perpetrated against Jews for thousands of years. We know and love flesh and bone humane Jews in our everyday life‚ and if not that
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suffered most from it. They were convicted of heresy‚ and often killed because of their beliefs. Such is the kind of racial discrimination toward Shylock‚ the Jewish character in "The Merchant of Venice." Some believe that the character as a greedy‚ coldhearted villain‚ which is not the case. In Shakespeare’s play‚ "The Merchant of Venice‚" Shylock was a victim of years’ struggle against discrimination toward his religion. One of the most persistent charges against Shylock was that he was cruel and
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In Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ Napoleon was a very helpful animal‚ but after he gained power‚ he became an utterly corrupt opportunist and very rarely thought of others. Napoleon made very minimal contributions to the Revolution‚ not to the formulation of ideology. Not to the bloody struggle that is necessitates. Not to the new society initial attempts to establish it. Napoleon let the power overtake him. He I guess made a contribution to the Revolution by getting the Animalism running‚ but besides
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