Judaism and Christianity in the play are shown through Jessica’s relationships with Shylock and Lorenzo. The father daughter relationship that Jessica and Shylock share shows the audience values of Judaism. The two have a very rocky relationship through out the play and although it appears that Jessica is no more than a rebellious teenager‚ their relationships and interactions show the foundations of a Jewish family. Shylock shows the rigid rules of the Jewish religion through how he treats Jessica at
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Merchant of Venice by bringing about the downfall of Shylock through her tempering of justice with mercy and by controlling the forces which enable her to live happily ever after with Bassanio‚” and indeed she does. Portia‚ like many others of Shakespeare’s women‚ defies the traditional role of her gender in an unsympathetic
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2). Jessica also reveals that Launcelot will help her to escape her father Shylock by conveying a letter to Lorenzo‚ the man Jessica intends to marry by elopement. She bids Launcelot‚ Shylock’s servant good-bye and privately expresses her shame of her father Shylock and her intention to reject her father and his Jewish religion‚ to become Lorenzo’s wife and a Christian‚ thereby rejecting all that her father Shylock believes in... Jessica: "Alack‚ what heinous sin is it in me / To be asham’d
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better understand the view coming from Shylock .The only problem that occurs is that most readers don’t want to include the reason that Shylock prosecutes Antonio because of his religion. In the play‚ though‚ Shylock shows his displeasure of the Christian religion‚ and quoted as saying: "I will buy with you‚ sell with you‚ talk with you‚ walk with you‚ and so following‚ but I will not eat with you‚ drink with you‚ nor pray with you (I.iii). Shylock does not approve of Antonio‚ this was
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10 Nazi Propaganda and The Merchant of Venice Shylock and Nazi Propaganda • "Never trust the artist‚ trust the tale.“ • We will never know what was in Shakespeare’s mind when he began writing "The Merchant of Venice." • what he intended and what he accomplished are not necessarily the same thing • Shylock is meant to be a villain. • his motives and his personality are clear • Given the opportunity he attempts to commit legalized murder. • Shylock is a Jewish villain‚ but he didn’t have to be. He
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The Value of Life in The Merchant of Venice and Stories from Rwanda William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Phillip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda are very similar in the fact that both address the value of human life. In The Merchant of Venice‚ one of the main characters is intent on murdering a man for money. In Stories from Rwanda‚ people are killed mainly because of their appearances. Throughout both works
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin‚ or his background‚ or his religion. People must learn to hate‚ and if they can learn to hate‚ they can be taught to love‚ for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite‚” said Nelson Mandela. What he meant when he said this was‚ people don’t automatically hate other people. They are taught to hate through the influence of other people or their own experiences. Even though they may hate somebody though‚ it’s
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in almost every era of time there has always been some sort of discrimination‚ segregation and hate towards the Jewish culture and its people. Both the movie “School Ties” and the play “The Merchant of Venice” include two Jewish males‚ David and Shylock‚ who were hated and frowned upon because of their culture and religion. Although both were treated like garbage‚ one of them was treated worse than the other. In the play “The Merchant of Venice” it was set in the 1500s‚ where discrimination
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early plays that is a festive comedy is A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ which is a great parallel to The Merchant of Venice because both revolve around romantic relationships but each leaves the reader with different feelings at the end. The play staring Shylock the Jew carries dark undertones that eliminate it from being a festive comedy‚ but it also lack the tragic nature of a traditional tragedy‚ leaving is as a problem play or tragicomedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a fun adventure for the
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Tragedy or Comedy The play writer William Shakespeare is widely considered one the greatest playwrights in history. His work transformed English literature forever. Most of his plays were either comedies or tragedies and some seemed to have the line blurred between the two as they contain elements of both. The play Merchant of Venice is one of these plays that contains flavours of both a comedy and a tragedy. Many scholars have frequently debated whether the play is either classified as a comedy
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