friendship. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice‚ Shakespeare highlights the relationship between a father and his daughter. Both of these plays show examples of how common father and daughter relationships are. Also‚ it is not unusual for a comedy to have a father demanding that his daughter marry a certain person. The law of the father plays an important role in the stories of both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ we are
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Italian merchant traveler from the Republic of Venice[2][3] whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde‚ a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned the mercantile trade from his father and uncle‚ Niccolò and Maffeo‚ who traveled through Asia‚ and apparently met Kublai Khan. In 1269‚ they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time. The three of them embarked on an epic journey to Asia‚ returning after 24 years to find Venice at war with
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How does Shakespeare create dramatic interest for the audience in the trial scene‚ Act 4 scene 1 in The Merchant of Venice’? In the trial scene (act 4 scene 1)‚ Shakespeare uses many different dramatic techniques to make the tension in the court room rise and build. He also uses dramatic irony and many other techniques to engage an audience in this particular scene in the play. These techniques would work have worked on an Elizabethan audience or a modern day audience. Although‚ these two eras
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ANTONIO I honestly don’t know why I’m so sad . I’m tired of it‚ and so are you. But I have no idea why I have gotten so depressed and I can’t figure out what is even making me feel this way. I must not understand myself very well. SALARINO You’re worried about your ships. Your mind is getting tossed around in the ocean with them‚ but they’re fine. They’re like huge parade floats on the sea. They’re so big they look down on the smaller ships‚ which all have to bow and then get out of the way.
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Sympathy for Shylock in Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare’s well-known play The Merchant of Venice was brought to the silver screen in 2004 in film adaption directed by Michael Radford. Adapting The Merchant of Venice to film helped make this classic English literature easily accessible to the public‚ while also making one of Shakespeare’s famous characters a bit more human. Decisions made while filming the adaption of this play changed the lens through which Shylock is
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In ’The Merchant of Venice’‚ there are three parent-child relationships; Shylock and Jessica‚ Portia and her deceased father‚ and Launcelot and Old Gobbo. There is an obvious contrast between these relationships. Although Portia’s father is deceased‚ they had a good relationship while he was alive. However‚ the relationship between Shylock and Jessica is repressive and conflictual and ends tragically. After Shakespeare’s song‚ Hamnet‚ died tragically in 1596‚ he began a theatrical study of parent-child
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In The Merchant of Venice how does Shakespeare present both Shylock as both victim and villain? Throughout the play‚ ‘The Merchant of Venice’‚ Shylock reveals many personalities; therefore making him such an emotionally complex and detailed character that shows elements of being both a victim and villain; and to come to my decision to whether Shylock is either of the two‚ other characters language towards him and his reactions will perceive different ideas from different era’s in time to determine
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ACT I - SCENE I : PLOT DEVELOPMENT The play opens in Venice. Where the title character‚ Antonio - the merchant of Venice‚ resides. He is a successful man‚ but is melancholy and weary for reasons he can’t explain‚ not even to his compatriots Salarnio and Salanio. They feel that his depression is from the stresses and worries that sprout from the shipping business‚ but his worries come not from these or love. The three are then met by Bassanio‚ Lorenzo‚ and Gratiano. Salarnio and Salanio
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which are beyond their control for example their appearance. In plays and novels‚ the victim is sometimes a character included to highlight the prejudices and pre-conceptions of the social climate in which the play or novel was written. In the Merchant of Venice’ it can be argued that Shylocks character undergoes a metamorphosis from villain to victim. However‚ in this essay I hope to discuss whether in fact Shylock can be defined as either villain or victim and to form an opinion of what Shakespeare
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Reaction Paper A company in a few short years becomes a well-known domestic enterprise. Since attracted international market‚ have not explored aware of the pros and cons of foreign markets‚ it has to enter the markets of other countries. I agree with the authors‚ it’s better to think more carefully and use of analytical tools to make accurate judgments and make the most important decision-making. The distance between the two countries can be revealed‚ along four basic dimensions: cultural distance
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