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Lead Casket Represents Silver Casket Represents Portia
406 wordsIn Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, the nature of man is shown on the inscriptions of the caskets. The gold casket represents what men desire, the silver casket represents what men deserve, and the lead casket represents a mans duty in marriage. The gold casket represents the desires of many men. Its inscription reads, Who choose me shall gain what many men desire. Any man, who only desires Portia, will not get his desire. The Prince of Morocco says that many women find him handsome. H...
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Merchant A Midsummer Nights
1,320 wordsA Product of Society? It is hard to determine whether or not Shakespearean comedy is clearly a product of Elizabethan courtly society. It can be said that the answer to that question is both yes and no. It is apparent in The Merchant of Venice that Shakespeare's writing was strongly influenced by the society surrounding him while A Midsummer Nights Dream is much less realistic and so original that one might think he came from another time period all together. In The Merchant of Venice there are ...
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Stay At Home Act 2 Scene 2
3,610 wordsShakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR is not equal as a whole, to either of his other plays taken from the Roman history. It is inferior in interest to Coriolanus, and both in interest and power to Antony and Cleopatra. Critics do not much admire the representation here given of Julius Caesar, nor do they think it answers to the portrait given of him in his Commentaries. He makes several vaporing and rather pedantic speeches, and does nothing. Indeed, he has nothing to do with it. So far, the fault of the...
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Brutus Is An Honorable Man People Of Rome
3,651 words... sts that the male characters in the play, even though they call on their ancestry and on the ideas of strength and honour, do so in a dishonorable cause. Still, she is a woman, and even though she is so father and so husbanded, she is unable to stem the flow of blood that the conspirators have begun If Portia is noble, Calphurnias, Caesars wife, suffers greatly in comparison. She is not so well-husbanded, for here Caesar shows himself to be weak and superstitious. Still, there is truth in Ca...
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Merchant Of Venice Fairy Tale
1,633 wordster> Show how the plot of The Merchant of Venice is apparently fanciful but in reality exactingly structured. 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. H. Granville-Barker, in Prefaces to Shakespeare. 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 play. The Merchant of Venice migh...
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Merchant Of Venice Room Of One
2,257 wordsFeminist approach to reading "The Merchant of Venice" The Merchant of Venice is widely considered Shakespeare's one of the most controversial plays. Among the many issues that merit discussion, besides the one of anti-Semitism, are the relationships between parents and children (there are three sets of them in the play), particularly involving permission to marry, the position of women in society generally, justice and mercy, friendship, matrimony, and the various kinds of bonds that connect hum...
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O J Simpson Merchant Of Venice
2,352 wordsThe Role of Prejudice In The Merchant of Venice This paper discusses the subject of prejudice in the William Shakespeare play, The Merchant of Venice. I. Introduction William Shakespeare's satirical comedy, The Merchant of Venice, believed to have been written in 1596 was an examination of hatred and greed. The premise deals with the antagonistic relationship between Shylock, a Jewish money-lender and Antonio, the Christian merchant, who is as generous as Shylock is greedy, particularly with his...
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Merchant Of Venice One Pound
524 wordsThe Merchant Of Venice Act 1 In the fist act, Antonio is introduced as the Merchant of Venice. A friend of him, Bassanio, desperately needs money because all of his money is on his ships and he wants to go to Belmont to visit the woman of his dreams, Portia. Therefore he goes to Antonio to ask if he is willing to go to Shylock and ask him if he can have 3000 ducats. Antonio agrees and goes to Shylock and explains that he has to pay it back within 3 months. If he doesnt do this, he may cut one po...
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Act 1 Scene 1 Merchant Of Venice
1,081 wordsThe Merchant Of Venice Antonio- Antonio is a wealthy merchant in the city of Venice. Although central to the play, Antonio is portrayed by Shakespeare as an outcast. It seems that Antonio is chronically depressed and is not involved in the social atmosphere that is thriving in Venice. In 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: 1 Along with Shylock, both men s...
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Merchant Of Venice Main Characters
1,028 wordsDumb jocks! , Women dont belong there, doing that! , He must be a criminal, just look at his clothes. How often have we heard somebody mention these things, yet, how often have we said something similar? Our society is based on face values where we categorize people because of a few actions. All of the above statements are prejudicial notions used to define members of a social or an ethnic group, and are called stereotypes. Stereotypes are explored greatly in the Shakespeare play The Merchant Of...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Merchant Of Venice
1,151 wordsWilliam Shakespeare had a way of creating intelligent characters who made use of the art of deception for their own personal gains. Characters such as Lucentio and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew; Oberon and Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream; Portia in The Merchant of Venice; and Richard in Richard III, all wanted to further their own agenda and did so in very sneaky and deceitful ways. These characters smartly used trickery and deceit to achieve their goals, and succeeded. And let me be a s...
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Shylock And Portia Merchant Of Venice Motive
501 wordsThe Motive of Imposters William Shakespeare attained literary immortality through his exposition of the many qualities of human nature in his works. One such work, The Merchant of Venice, revolves around the very human trait of deception. Fakes and frauds have been persistent throughout history, even to this day. Evidence of deception is all around us, whether it is in the products we purchase or the sales clerks false smile as one debates the purchase of the illusory merchandise. We are engulfe...
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Merchant Of Venice Shakespeare
519 wordsThe Concepts Of Peace And Justice InThe Concepts Of Peace And Justice In Shakespeare? S Merchant Of Venice The Concepts of Peace and Justice in Shakespeare? s Merchant of Venice? If you want peace, work for justice. ? Unknown In Shakespeare? s Merchant of Venice, Portia? s defense of Antonio is considered a wonderful, noble deed. She is not considered the villain (that distinction falls to Shylock), but her deed, which is considered right, proper, and good by her fellow Venetians, is actually mo...
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Love For Portia Merchant Of Venice Antonio
972 wordsChristopher Shepard Women and Power in Shakespeare Prof. Garganigo 9 / 10 / 1999 Fate Guide as Scapegoat in The Merchant of Venice Self-determined decisions made by Shakespeare's characters not only mold the characters dispositions, but obviously reveal what course the remainder of the play will take. Self-determination remains a strong power for any character when compared with the alternative: fate dictating the characters entire destiny. Fate dictates that the characters do not have a choice ...
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Play Julius Caesar Played An Important Role
1,057 wordsShakespeare's Julius Caesar Assignment 3. Explain why the following minor characters are important to the play Julius Caesar: Calpurnia, Portia, The Soothsayer, Decius, Cinna, the Poet, Artemidorus In Julius Caesar there were many important characters throughout the play like Caesar, Brutus and Mark Antony. These characters were the main part of the story line and made the story line work. Like any other play there also needs to be minor characters to help let the play flow smoothly and make it ...
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Tragedy Of Julius Caesar Brutus And Cassius
1,825 wordsShakespeare s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, was a historical literary work. He taught the history behind Julius Caesar and Rome, while giving the audience some suspense also. That must have been hard to do. This essay will explain my interpretation of Julius Caesar. The story is introduced in Act I. Shakespeare writes in a manner in which the more educated or important characters speak in poetry, whereas the peasants speak in prose. The comedic mood is set with the announcement of the upco...
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Determined By Not Giving Stay Home Caesar
537 wordsIn Act Two of Julius Caesar, the reader was introduced to the characters of Portia and Calpurnia. They were similar in many ways. Portia was the wife of Brutus. She noticed that there was something the matter with Brutus when he uncharacteristically awoke very early in the morning. She asked him what was bothering him but her question was only answered by a glare. She continued her questioning and insisted that he tell her what was troubling him. He told her that he was only feeling ill and that...
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Merchant Of Venice Word Choice
788 wordsThe Merchant of Venice In the play The Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare, some of the main issues that characters have to face in the play are money, justice, love and revenge. The way these issues are presented in the play is by the choice of words and the tone spoken by the characters, the atmosphere created in certain scenes sets how those ideas are portrayed, the location of the scene also helps add to how these issues are presented. If you repay me not on such a day, In such...
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Hypocritical Nature Of The Christian Christians In The Play Shylock
1,025 wordsThe Merchant of Venice is in essence, a comedy, with clearly defined good guys and the infamous villain. The character of Shylock seems, outwardly, to be the villain of the play. He sets up a plan to take a pound of flesh from Antonio, who, outwardly, seems like a good Christian. This, however, has more depth to it than it appears. Shakespeare gives reasons for Shylock s actions; though they may be acts of hatred, it is not unjustified hatred. Instead, it is clear that the Antonio has given Shyl...
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887 wordsPoints Against And In Favour For The Points Against And In Favour For The Way The Trial Was Handled In The Merchant Of Venice The trial scene in the Merchant of Venice is the climax of the play as Shylock has taken Antonio to court, as he has not paid back the money he borrowed. Shylock wants the pound of flesh that is the forfeit of the bond concerning the money Antonio borrowed from him. Shylock s main motivation for wanting this forfeit is as his daughter has stolen his money and run away, he...
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