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    A victim is someone who has been singled out for cruelor unfair treatment. A villain is a wicked person or a criminal. Antonio’s counterpart‚ Shylock‚ is the most noteworthy figure in Shakespeare’s comedy‚ The Merchant of Venice. No consensus has been reached on whether Shylock is a tyrannical villain or a tragic victim. Shylock‚ in my opinion‚ is a bloodthirsty villain. In the following paragraphs‚ it will be shown that Shylock is a villain in every sense of the word. Namely‚ he is vengeful‚

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    How is your prescribed text made memorable through the interaction of ideas and the ways these ideas are represented? “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare contains many memorable themes. Through the use of techniques ideas are represented. These ideas are the power of money‚ conflict/prejudice between Jews and Christians and the role of women. The memorable ideas represented throughout the play are extremely important to “The Merchant of Venice” and is the reason why it is called a ‘problem

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    for the ’Merchant of Venice’ was ’The Jew of Venice’. Which title do you think is the more appropriate? ’The Merchant of Venice’ tittle has been carefully chosen and it is apt and suggested. There has been some controversy among the critics that the tittle belong to Shylock or Antonio. This controversy arose because in the first entry the play had been named ’The Merchant of Venice’ or ’The Jew of Venice’. Later on the double tittle disappeared and it was named ’The Merchant of Venice’. So critics

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    enjoy spending time with. In The Merchant of Venice‚ Shakespeare shows the reader; through the characters of Bassanio and Antonio‚ what the true definition of a friendship really is. The definition of friendship from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is ‘the state of being friends’. Antonio and Bassanio have a friendship throughout the play that is similar to this definition and the perceived definition most people have. At the beginning of The Merchant of Venice‚ Bassanio comes to Antonio wanting

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    "So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceiv’d with ornament." In other words one may portray himself one way but may really be sother on the inside . Although he is differefnt inside the wolrd only sees him as what he is on the outside . In literature this is a significant topic . Many people think they know someone but they really don’t . Shakespear’s play the Merchant of Venice ‚ is a great example of this quote. In the play The Merchant of Venice ‚ one of the

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    Are Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Jonson’s Volpone devoted to ‘the performance of justice’? Justice has intrinsic links with laws and rules – two motifs that are central to both Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Jonson’s Volpone. These include laws of the Venetian state‚ the contracts between business men‚ friends or lovers and Biblical laws. Strict adherence to the law is questioned as to whether or not it truly brings justice as often the varying laws of state‚ love‚ business and

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    The Merchant of Venice Movie Production Matt Bomer as Antonio Matthew Bomer has an impressive and aristocratic bearing. No matter how tall he is‚ Matthew appears noble and upright. He is very much in control of the image he sends out to others. Bomer is elegant‚ graceful‚ and charismatic. He can take the role as a rather lackluster character. He can act as a hopeless depressive man‚ someone who cannot name the source of his melancholy such

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    adequately describes the posing conflicts in Amy Tan’s novel‚ The Joy Luck Club. The desire to find ones true identity‚ along with the reconciliation of their Chinese culture and their American surroundings‚ is a largely significant conflict among the characters of the novel. In the discovery of ones individuality develops a plethora of conflicts involving the theme of a lack of communication and misinterpretation of one another. Although‚ as time progresses‚ the various conflicts of the characters in The

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    Project On “The Merchant Of Venice” Contents SR. NO. PARTICULARS 1 Writer 2 Summary 3 Character Analysis 4 Themes 5 Relevance To Modern World 6 Critical Evaluation Writer William Shakespeare born on 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)] was an English poet and playwright‚ widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national

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    very bad by the Christian people. All the people in the play all said hateful things to him and spat on him. For his "un-Christian" behavior he was called a dog Jew by everyone he doesn’t even know. Shylock was fed up with Christians hating the Jews‚ so he made a bond with Antonio to get revenge. The bond had a slight catch to it‚ if Antonio did not pay him back on time then he would have to give Shylock a pound of his own flesh. He deliberately asks for a pound of flesh because he doesn’t like Antonio

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