interactions and the portrayal of Shylock‚ a Jewish moneylender in Venice. Through Shylock’s character‚ Shakespeare provides a commentary on how his society has viewed Judaism in a dehumanizing way for many generations‚ but also expresses how difficult and not in a playwright’s place to change these societal prejudices. Shakespeare utilizes Shylock’s character as an antagonist to Antonio to demonstrate how dehumanization happens to both the perpetrator and the victim. This commentary begins in the
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The Character of Shylock in Merchant of Venice Few characters created by Shakespeare embodies pure evil like the character of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Shylock is a usurer and a malevolent‚ blood-thirsty old man consumed with plotting the downfall of his enemies. He is a malignant‚ vengeful character‚ consumed with venomous malice1; a picture of callous‚ unmitigated villainy‚ deaf to every appeal of humanity2. Shylock is the antagonist opposite the naive‚ essentially good Antonio
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Task 1 Title: Analysing the Brief Assessment Criteria: Worth 1.8 % of your final GCSE grade. See page 128-129 in Edexcel DT: RMT textbook Students will be assessed on their ability to: Analyse their design brief in enough detail to be able to clarify design needs. This will involve analysis of key words and phrases that help in understanding the issues related to the chosen/given design task. IMPORTANT : one you have decided on a context to work in with your teacher DO NOT CHANGE
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length of the residency requirement and had also discussed the speed with which new citizens could engage in the political process‚ but it did not question the necessity of whiteness for citizenship. The connection between whiteness and citizenship was further stressed in the subsequent Militia Act of 1792; white male citizens were described as vital to national defense‚ including the defense of white life and property against potential slave insurrection. Although all white residents could claim
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Analyzing: “The Victims” by Sharon Olds “The Victims” by Sharon Olds is a poem‚ which gives us an elaborated and refined view of a tortured family in our modern society. It describes the immature resentment of the young speaker and her family towards the father‚ and the more mature expression of sympathy of the grown up speaker. The poem is divided into two parts‚ easy to spot due to a sudden change in the verb tenses‚ speaker‚ tone and purpose. The first part of the poem‚ transmits to the reader
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Shylock is a monster of cruelty‚ miser‚ greedy‚ suspicious ‚cunning ‚ bloodthirsty ‚revengeful‚ mean ‚a bad father and a bad master. But it is the circumstances that made him like this. Shylock is a tragic figure‚ trapped by prejudice and driven to revenge by the treatment he receives He is not cruel by nature. He is human in inner-self as the Christians are. He is therefore the most injured man‚ insulted‚ abused and disgraced by the Christians and even by his own daughter‚ His cruelty is made
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Is Shylock Tragic or Merely Evil? This essay will discuss whether Shylock is seen as the victim or the perpetrator. Whether he is characterized as a feeble man who loses everything or just a sinister old loon. I am ambivalent. I believe that Shylock is all of these things. I think‚ in one sense‚ he is able to evoke the audience’s sympathy through a variety of instances yet he causes us to loathe him through his brutal need for revenge and therefore his character. Shylock loathed Antonio‚ and
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mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice‚ Shylock is the core of all ripples. He lashed out against the prejudice that was thrust upon him and is considered evil for doing so. The Merchant of Venice brought together different characters of different religions. Shakespeare used characters in this play to reflect sixteenth century views on Christianity and Judaism. The character Shylock wass used to embody the religious conflicts of the Elizabethan era. Throughout
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Money and Religion on Antonio and Shylock In The Merchant of Venice money plays a huge role in the lives many of its characters‚ especially the main protagonists Antonio and Shylock. Antonio is shown as the stereotypical generous Christian and Shylock as a stereotypical moneylending Jew‚ being greedy and living in isolation. In the play money is used as a means of exploring the characters of Antonio and Shylock’s religion and inclusion within society. Shylock as a Jewish moneylender‚ is excluded
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22nd March 2011 Jessica: Victim/Villain Within the content of this essay I will be discussing about two main characters in this novel. Jessica and Shylock. Jessica being the daughter of Shylock with both following the Jewish religion. However Jessica passionately falls in love with a Christian man Lorenzo‚ she is very determined and enthusiastic to be with this man. To such an extent that she would leave her religion and her father to become a Christian and follow her desires. Your probably be
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