Shakespeares - Othello Othello takes place in Venice (in northern Italy) and Cyprus (an island in the eastern Mediterranean about forty miles south of present-day Turkey). The time is between 1489 and 1571. 3 Facts on Shakespeare: One of Shakespeare’s relatives on his mother’s side‚ William Arden‚ was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I‚ imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed. Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death there are 157 million pages referring to
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of the world there has been discrimination that has caused authors to write about it and show the world how their city and country is discriminated. Throughout both plays “Othello” and “The merchant of Venice” they face many obstacles including racial and religious discrimination. In “The merchant of Venice”‚ Antonio‚ a wealthy man‚ discriminates Shylock who lends them money. To compare‚ In “Othello”‚ Iago who serves for Othello does not like him because he didn’t get the promotion he thought he
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And I can tell you that the papers that reckon as ten bezants do not weight one” (Silkroad Foundation‚ 2017). However‚ the effect was positive because with the paper currency being introduced‚ it meant that there was less burden on the travelling merchants carrying clunky gold and silver. The effect was that it became much easier to engage in economic transactions and trade processes because the paper currency was more efficient and easy to
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The Affects of Money and Religion on Antonio and Shylock In The Merchant of Venice money plays a huge role in the lives many of its characters‚ especially the main protagonists Antonio and Shylock. Antonio is shown as the stereotypical generous Christian and Shylock as a stereotypical moneylending Jew‚ being greedy and living in isolation. In the play money is used as a means of exploring the characters of Antonio and Shylock’s religion and inclusion within society. Shylock as a Jewish moneylender
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A Feminist Analysis of Gender Identity in Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare’s diverse female characters started to revolutionize views of gender in the Renaissance‚ though women were not treated as equals to men until modern times because of the patriarchal views that were instilled in society. The feminist approach in this presentation works to disprove Shakespeare’s traditional critics. I use a feminist approach to prove that Shakespeare’s representation of gender is more flexible
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Vicky Przybysz Ms. Innes-Murphy ENG 1DA 15 May 2014 A Lifelong Masquerade: The Role of Women in The Merchant of Venice In William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice‚ the expectation and role of women to be passive is highlighted in the way they are regarded by men as weak‚ and the juxtaposing irony of their power. Since the beginning of time‚ women have assumed the natural role of caregiver and mother‚ and women in the Elizabethan era were no exception. Elizabethan women were subservient to
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jury system - that’s no ideal to me. Catholic Social Teaching & Merchant of VeniceThis Catholic Social Teaching‚ Promotion of Peace relates to the play Merchant of Venice as one of the scenes portrays Portia creating peace in the town Belmont. She creates peace by offering to pay beyond the amount that Bassanio owned to Shylock. This quote demonstrates how Portia is willing to create peace instead of violence. Merchant of Venice Quotation- Promotion of Peace…”Pay him six thousand and deface the
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performed more often than those of any other playwright Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avonright. The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare‚ believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare’s other romantic comedies he title character is the merchant Antonio. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed
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China with a famous book The Travels of Marco Polo that had been written by a writer called Rustichello. The most appealing thing about Marco Polo is that Marco and his father were not explores. Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice‚ Italy. He grew into a wealthy merchant family and had an education‚ which would have prepared him for a career in business. Marco learned basic literacy skills‚ arithmetic‚ book- keeping‚ and the basic theology of the Latin Church. He also had an intimate knowledge
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repeat. The tone is didactic‚ “Money moves the merchants all” and “Money maketh Evil show” saying money is the start is a parallel construction. Pattern of sound is found also because there are a lot of words that end with the “th” sound examples of these words: taketh‚ maketh‚ truth‚ youth‚ health and gaineth. “Money taketh town and wall‚ Fort and ramp without a blow” says that with a little trickery a war could be won. “Money moves the merchants all‚ While the tides shall ebb and flow” because
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