tunnel and in the distance I can see a faint shimmer of light my heart jumps at the prospect of escaping this darkness. When I finally reach the end‚ I came to a dark beach; the sky was like a curtain of silk in the sky: The sky sheds its color from dark misty indigo to an illuminated shimmering blue sky. Revealing a beautiful beach paradise mostly comprise of endless body of clear water. Seeing the fluffy clumps of clouds that were covering the sky before they slowly fainted away into thin air
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not show any mercy because they have no room for mercy or has very little while others give mercy to many a lot. To imagine such a world where mercy is not shown and just being caught by doing one sin would be the death penalty. In The Merchant of Venice‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Shakespeare reveals the idea of mercy through the different scenes in a exciting and interesting way for the readers to keep reading on. Mercy depends on the person and how their characteristic is and also how they are viewed
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Merchant of Venice The play The Merchant of Venice is a comedy about a man named Bassanio who wants to travel to Belmont to try and win the love of a rich‚ beautiful and intelligent heiress‚ names Portia. Bassanio has his friend Antonio borrow money from a Jewish money lender for him so that he could travel to Belmont. The Merchant of Venice has many different themes‚ including the two themes; revenge & love and friendship. The first theme in the play The Merchant of Venice is revenge.
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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 to
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The Merchant of Venice "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare is a captivating play about revenge‚ justice‚ deception and friendship. Held within the brutal time of the 16th century‚ the play is about a pronounced character known as Shylock‚ who is a reasonably wealthy Jew‚ lending one of his enemies‚ Antonio‚ three thousand ducats. The play gives you a glance of how bad and unbearable life was for non-Christians‚ especially Jews. Shakespeare does an impeccable job of conveying the
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Shylock: Villain or Victim The Merchant Of Venice is the story about a merchant by the name of Antonio who borrows money from a Jewish moneylender by the name of Shylock‚ in order to fund his best friend Bassanio’s romantic ambitions. The majority of the residents of Venice during the time this story was written were Christians‚ just like Antonio. At the same time there was a considerable amount of hatred toward those who were not Christians. Antonio needed money quickly and he had no other choice
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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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The Merchant of Venice (1596) is one of Shakespeare’s most outstanding comedies. For the past more than 400 years‚ it has been paid close attention to and also highly praised. Many people‚ such as literature critics‚ historians‚ and the scholars who study religion‚ have keen interest in it not just because that this work has special literary power but also because that it reflects several deep conflicts-ethnic conflict and religious conflict. The major plot of this play is related with Antonio and
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Mercy v. Justice Old Testament v. New Testament While the conflict between justice and mercy plays a key role in determining the outcome of The Merchant of Venice‚ this conflict is even more important because it provides a setting for the contrast between the rigid law and rules of the Old Testament and the concepts of mercy and forgiveness as taught by Christ in the New Testament. It is in the climactic trial scene that The Duke‚ hoping Shylock will excuse Antonio’s penalty‚ asks him‚ "How
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