How is your prescribed text made memorable through the interaction of ideas and the ways these ideas are represented? “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare contains many memorable themes. Through the use of techniques ideas are represented. These ideas are the power of money‚ conflict/prejudice between Jews and Christians and the role of women. The memorable ideas represented throughout the play are extremely important to “The Merchant of Venice” and is the reason why it is called a ‘problem
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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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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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<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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How Does the Language and Stagecraft in Acts IV.i and V Reveal a sympathetic Portrayal of Shylock? Is this consistent with Elizabethan attitudes towards Jews? The anti Semitic message which plagued Europe throughout the Middle Ages has spawned many thought provoking‚ controversial plays. Its complex main character‚ the unforgettable Shylock expresses true emotions‚ develops throughout the production‚ and thus brings about a different portrayal of medieval Jews‚ previously limited to that of the
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a monkey and marrying Lorenzo‚ Jessica is faced with a deep moral guilt in Act 5‚ Scene 1 when exposed to how Portia feels after tricking Bassiano to give the ring away while she was disguised. In Act 5‚ Scene 1‚ Jessica is completely silent after Portia and the others enter and they begin to discuss all of the disguise and trickery that had happened. When the men are told that Portia and Nerissa were in disguise and tricked the men of their rings‚ rings that the men had swore to keep for eternity
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sense like them. They see and smell‚ and have their palates both for sweet and sour‚ as husbands have.” (Othello 107) In the Merchant of Venice‚ Portia‚ is opinionated and intelligent. Portia is quick tongued while being around Nerissa. Nerissa is a Portia’s loyal companion. Portia and Nerissa are the heroes of the story. Regardless of gender. Portia is an important symbol in the play. She shows selflessness by paying the debt that is putting Antonio’s life on the line. “Pay him six thousand‚ and
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motion’ ever since Cassius first ‘whet’ him against Caesar. ‘The same is then implied by Portia in the same act‚ this gives the audience a clear idea of how hard it was for Bututs to come to a conclusion. How he ‘walk’d about‚ Musing and sighing’ and most importantly it tells the audience that having to make this decision has gotten to him so much that it is even on the urge of perishing his relationship with Portia. Another pitiful aspect of Brutus’ character is his inability to judge people for
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evidently loves more than Caesar‚ a dear friend. An example of Brutus’s change in nature is between him and his wife‚ Portia. Portia and Brutus are close‚ and Portia is clearly used to Brutus confiding in her; however‚ Brutus keeps his personal thoughts in and continues to make his decisions on the account of what he thinks is good for the public. Knowing that Brutus is so close to Portia‚ it is hard to dismiss the scene where he receives the news of her suicide. As soon as he receives the news he replies:
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