The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare‚ believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.In Shakespeare s The Merchant of Venice‚ there are many controversies over religion and friendship‚ but the idea of the play that interested me the most was the role of women. The two women that are in this play take on the role of the saviors of the men who seem helpless and hopeless compared to them. From the first time we meet Portia‚ we see that she is a very smart woman and that she is
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the more important thing in several places within the play‚ money is mentioned before a person as well as love itself. This is a consistent pattern throughout the play with the majority of the characters but this is highlighted within the lines of Shylock The Jew‚ more than any other character he puts his money before everything else. Money over love is demonstrated within the first act of the play as Antonio’s friends offer plausible reasons for why he’s sad‚ starting with his money invested
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language of the novel. The addition of vulgar language gives the allusion that the boys are much older‚ to the point of near adolescence. It also gives the impression that the boys are slightly uncivilized to begin with‚ as the vulgarity is improper of English young men. These variations between the book and movie can completely alter the impressions the story gives and its overall plot development. While the novel Lord of the Flies and its movie have many differences‚ they tell the same story and
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The play I have studied is Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. The character I believe deserves the title heroine is Portia. Portia‚ as I will explain is quite an atypical hero figure. She is rich and beautiful‚ so we assume wrongly at first that she will be spoilt and inconsequential to the action of the play. This could not be further from the truth. Portia is not to be underestimated. Without Portia‚ there would be no titular merchant at the end of this Romantic Comedy. Portia may be
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Question: ‘Shylock is a Jew in a predominantly Christian society just as Othello is…living in a predominantly white society. But unlike Othello‚ Shylock rejects the Christian community as firmly as it rejects him.’ (W.H. Auden‚ ‘The Dyer’s Hand’‚ 1963. Quoted in ‘Shakespeare’s Comedies’‚ edited by Lerner‚ Penguin 1967.) In light of the above quotation‚ compare and contrast Shakespeare’s presentation of prejudice‚ considering how audiences of different periods might react to it. (2000 words)
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in detail. This technique is effectives the reader then feels that she is insignificant‚ and although it is she who lends her name to the poem‚ is an outcast and a quiet individual. She is continually referred to as small‚ further lowering the impressions of the character to the reader. Auden establishes the setting of the poem in the introductory stanza‚ as would be done in a story “She lived in Clevedon Terrace/ At Number 83”. This is an ordinary address and place for the poem to be set it‚ this
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the sea with my relatives in Crimea where was really hard to go away from water as it was really dog days. In the second part of the July I went by train to my parents and while I got there I read a book of polish writer afterwards I was under the impression and with every word I read I found an inner peace and confidence in my future and become more self-reliance thanks to Janos Leon Wisniewski. My father is a plant manager of a factory (which specializes on a beer‚ kvass and lemonade) in Simferopol
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was dependant on foreign businessmen like shylock. The city has laws to protect their legal rights and it is how the two religions follow and obey these laws which separate them. Elaboration: In the context of Merchant of Venice‚ Jews believe in justice‚ and following the law and Christians are shown to have mercy. Shylock with his bond prepares to cut Antonio’s heart‚ meanwhile the Christian court begs him and asks why he will not show mercy. Shylock replies saying he doesn’t have a logical
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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 of the traits she doesn’t like about each of them. She even suggests placing a glass of wine on one of the incorrect caskets; so that the German suitor would choose
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Jameson’s review gives much praise to Portia. According to Jameson‚ “Many critics are so dazzled and engrossed by the amazing character of Shylock‚ that Portia has received less than justice at their hands” (141). Shylock has taken away much of the spotlight from Portia; therefore she is consistently overlooked by critics. Jameson’s opinion on Shylock and Portia’s relationship in the play can be described as “She hangs beside the terrible‚ inexorable Jew‚ the brilliant lights of her character
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