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Pound Of Flesh Plot Of The Play
1,019 wordsPortia: The Best Female Shakespearean Part? Portia is one of Shakespeare's best parts for an actress as, apart from being one of the central characters within the main plot of the play; she displays great wit and intelligence. These are assets which none of Shakespeare's other female roles ever had as women who lived around the same time as Shakespeare, were not considered to have such honourable traits. Portia has many lengthy speeches, and in almost all of theses she displays her great intelli...
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Merchant Of Venice Shakespeare Plays
908 wordsWhen William Shakespeare wrote, The Merchant of Venice, he included a female character that influences the play dramatically. In most of Shakespeare's plays, the women have little power and intelligence. In The Merchant of Venice, however, Portia is a woman that saves the life of a man with her wit and intelligence. Another woman created by Shakespeare that posses qualities similar to Portia is Beatrice, from Much Ado about Nothing. Both women add to the main themes of the play because of their ...
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Pound Of Flesh Thousand Ducats
1,206 words... y, he wants Antonio to suffer for disrespecting Shylock's authority. This really enforces the fact that Shylock is a ruthless scoundrel. The two women enter the courtroom with a message that the doctor Balthasar (Portia) has being sent to replace the original doctor, Bellario. Portia begins her case with a plea for mercy, she begs him to forfeit the bond and accept three times the amount. Shylock refuses, as he wants to take his revenge on the Christians who have criticized him because he is...
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Merchant Of Venice Love And Friendship
1,655 wordsWe can trace the origin of Comedy to Dionysius- the Greek God of Wine who was hilarious, satirical and irreverent in spirit. Ben Jonson in Volpone (1605) that is considered to be the greatest comedy in English epitomized the classical spirit of comedy. Shakespeare was aware of the classical tradition by the chose to follow the Roman tradition of Petrarch and Boccacio. Shakespeare's early comedies were classical in spirit but the later ones were more emotional, fanciful and humorous. The Merchant...
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Act Ii Scene Act Iii Scene Ii
1,520 wordster> Compare and contrast Portia's three suitors, examining their characters Shakespeare highlights three of Portia's suitors, the Prince of Morocco, the Prince of Arragon and Bassanio. He does this to heighten dramatic tension, as these three men are the most important candidates to win Portia's hand in marriage. They reveal the contents of the three caskets and their different characters as exposed as being proud, vain and humble. They also emphasise the racial prejudices of Venice a...
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Pound Of Flesh Merchant Of Venice
1,454 wordsThe Merchant of Venice was a comedy written by William Shakespeare. Antonio, a merchant of Venice was a venerable businessman. He was a wealthy man and offered his friends the loan of money, without interest. Antonio became bound to Shylock when he agreed for his good friend Bassanio to use him as security to borrow money from Shylock. Shylock was a Jewish usurer who lives in Venice. He believed in charging interest and hated Antonio who did not. Portia was a wealthy heiress who is confined by h...
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The Role Of Portia In Merchant Venice
656 wordsPortia is one of the main character roles in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, and is often related to as the heroine of the play. Unlike the business city of Venice, her home is set in the contrasting city of Belmont, which represents love and harmony within the play. We are introduced to Portia in Act 1 Scene 1, when Bassanio describes her as a fair lady, richly left, but we do not see her until Act 1 Scene 2. We learn that she has a close relationship with her waiting-woman, Nerissa, and she ...
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Merchant Of Venice Female Characters
1,771 wordsThroughout Mans history, women have always been at a disadvantage socially, economically, and politically. Shakespeare realized this and sought to bring the controversy that comes with Androgynous issues to life. Through strong female characters and the implications of disguises, Shakespeare exposes gender issues. Many critics believe Shakespeare poorly represents women in his plays through intentional exploiting of women with his boy-girl-boy disguises. When in fact, I see Shakespeare as exploi...
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York New York Don Pedro
2,243 wordsShakespeare's Use of Trickery and Disguise In His Plays Shakespeare uses similar comic elements to effect similar outcomes in his works. Many of his plays utilize trickery and disguise to accomplish similar endings. Trickery plays a major role in The Merchant of Venice and drives most of the action, while mistaken identity, specifically Portia's disguise as the learned attorneys representative, plays a major role in the resolution of the play. The first instance of trickery in the play is Bassan...
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Appearance Versus Reality Hath Not A Jew
969 wordsThe Merchant of Venice Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is still relevant today because it deals with issues which still affect us. Show how two of those issues are discussed in the play. Throughout the play a distinction is made between how things appear on the outside and how they are in reality, or on the inside. The issue of appearance versus reality is demonstrated in varied ways, mainly by the use of real-life situations. The first representation of this is Shylock's generosity with hi...
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Comedy And Tragedy Merchant Of Venice
738 wordsShakespeare? s The Merchant Of Venice combines three themes to form this successful play. It is actually a combination of romance, comedy and tragedy. A romance is a love story which ends with a happy note. Comedy involves an amusing play which also ends with a happy note. Tragedy differs from comedy and romance in that, it is a serious play and the central character exits the play in disaster. Comedy is one of the themes portrayed in this play. Examples of comedy are shown through dramatic iron...
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Deaf Mute Carson Mccullers
9,958 wordsThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is a novel set in a small Southern town in the late 1930? s. McCullers writes about characters who are lonely and rejected. their lives intertwine in a search for friendship and understanding. Many of the characters have a need to be understood, however; none of them ever truly are. One of the characters in the novel, Jake Blount, searches for a sympathetic ear. He appears in the New York Cafe drunk and rowdy talking t...
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Love For His Wife Merchant Of Venice
815 wordsHow The Characters In The Merchant Of How The Characters In The Merchant Of Venice Got What They Deserve People s rewards are determined based on their actions. The fact that Shylock is not merciful to Antonio and that he is hateful towards the Christians, has resulted in him losing his possessions. Bassanio not only helps Antonio, but is also wise and being wed to Portia is his reward. Antonio gives money to Bassanio and is willing to die for his friend and his reward is his life. The particula...
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Iambic Pentameter Julius Caesar
1,282 words1. ) Julius Caesar JULIUS Caesethe great philosopher Aristotle makes the distinction between comedy and tragedy. Aristotle defines tragedy as a tragic character falling from a high place in society due to a flaw they possess and provides an insight into human existence. He defines comedy as any story that begins in adversity and ends in optimism. Shakespeare offers his own six elements to a tragedy; a tragic hero, conflicts (internal and external), humor, the supernatural, revenge, and chance ha...
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Act Iv Scene Act V Scene
3,926 wordsAct I, Scene i Summary Two patricians Flavius and Marcullus enter. They are confused by the fact that the plebeians are not in their work clothes, and begin to ask some plebeians what their jobs are. A carpenter admits he is a carpenter. Next Marcullus asks a cobbler what his job is, and the cobbler answers in a series of puns (" souls" / " soles" ), (" withal" / " with awl" ). The cobbler explains that everyone is taking the day off to celebrate Caesars v...
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Julius Caesar Caesar
1,261 wordsThroughout all time that humans have been around, the males have always been dominant. It is only in the past fifty years that females have become almost as important and equal in society. In plays by Shakespeare, most of the main speaking parts are the characters of meant. Women do not have a large significance and influence upon the actions of the men. The males often try to insult each other in a play such as? Macbeth? by insinuating that the other was not a full man, and maybe slightly femin...
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Merchant Of Venice Act 4 Scene 1
2,000 wordsMerchant Of Venice Examine Act 4 Merchant Of Venice Examine Act 4 Scene 1 And Comment On How Dramatically Effective You Found This? The Merchant of Venice? was written by William Shakespeare almost certainly between 1596 and 1598 and was first performed at The Theater, London, in 1597. The play is classed as one of the sixteen comedy plays but it is also a? problem? play due to the tragic elements woven throughout the intricate plot. It was performed in front of a xenophobic, Elizabethan audienc...
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Merchant Of Venice Shylock
1,669 wordsShow 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? might ap...
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Merchant Of Venice Sense Of Humour
769 wordsPortia, The Ideal Woman. When one thinks of something ideal one may think of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are. In Shakespeare? s play, The Merchant Of Venice, one of the major themes is appearance verses reality. In the play Portia is portrayed as the ideal woman. In the opening scene, Bassanio describes her as the Golden Fleece. Portia is truly the Golden Fleece: she is highly intelligent; she has a great sense of humour and she is able to keep her good values through t...
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Dead Father Basketball Team
935 wordsPortia is Definitely a Man s Name Why must we label some women s jobs while men s aren t? A basketball team needs to be changed to the women s basketball team when women participate. Women operate as the other in society, many being unacknowledged and treated as such. Judging by some of Shakespeare s works, it seems this same social placement existed in his time. Through examination of Jessica s escape from her father and Portia s conceding to her royalty in Shakespeare s Merchant of Venice, soc...
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