Merchant of Venice Essay

Throughout History, some of the greatest stories and tales have an underlying theme of friendship. Chaim Potok’s book, The Chosen, is one of these books. During this time period, two groups known as the Orthodox Jews and the Hasidic Jews disagree with each other on most things. However, this fact does not prevent the two main characters Reuven Malter, an Orthodox Jew, and Danny Saunders, a Hasidic Jew, from becoming friends. In Danny Saunders’ case, his father, Reb Saunders is the leader of the…

As children, we look up to our parents. Just by listening to the things they say and how they act can have a huge impact on the way a child grows up and the way they experience life. Conrad, the main character from the novel, Conrad in Beverly Hills, grows up in Beverly Hills with parents who seem to not care or understand the way Conrad feels about his life. Specifically his father, Morse Keppler, has a tremendous impact on Conrad because he talks a lot about anti-semitism in very negative ways…

“You get, you give”(97), from The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli, means that you share your fortune with others to spread hope and kindness, so that allies and friends are made wherever one goes; the main character, Dom Napoli, shares his money and food generously and often, meeting friends at the same time. When Dom first arrives in Manhattan, he meets a “tough guy” in a alleyway that he tries to sleep in, and sees the boy chased away by the police later that evening. The next day,…

In Merchant characters learn how to navigate their world inside their homes. It is, after all, in her home that Portia learns of the marriage test that her father stipulated in his will (1.2.25). Shortly after, she speaks of the difficulty in learning her own path, saying “I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching” (1.2.15-17). However, it will be through that same set of marriage tests that Portia learns to deftly wield words,…

In the "Amigo Brothers," Antonio and Felix's next match was a challenge to their friendship. Why? Because they would be fighting each other. Paragraph six states, "Now, after a series of elimination bouts, they had been informed that they were to meet each other in the division finals that were scheduled for the seventh of August..." But they're scared because they don't want to hurt each other physically, or beat each other to the championship that they both wanted to win. However, they both…

This is a critique of the production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo. The Last Night of Ballyhoo is Alfred Uhry’s glance back into Southern Jewish nostalgia based on his life’s experiences. The Last Night of Ballyhoo won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play. Ballyhoo is established only a couple of months after Hitler’s military occupied Poland. However, as a amount of Ballyhoo characters propose, Hitler and Europe are too distant to be of life-threatening alarm This play was written by Alfred Uhry,…

Russian did not allow the, to cross-examine the miscreants. The second attack moved by Chaim Nachman Bialik to write a famous poem, In the City of Slaughter, which resonated among the Jewish intelligentsia. More importantly, the Zionists (Usshishin) and Revisionist’s (Jabotinsky) and Territorialist (Zangwell) were highly offended at the cavalier treatment of this activity. Galicia After the Third Partition (1795) of the Lithuanian-Polish Empire, Austria annexed most of Lesser Poland,…

The bullfights find another form of significance in their paralleling of events in the characters’ lives. For instance, the first time they see the bulls as they are being unloaded into the corrals the first bull gores and kills a steer. This could be seen as parallel to the ensuing fight Mike and Cohn have. Mike himself compares Cohn to a steer—a castrated bull calf that grows into an ox—which fits on more than one level. Cohn is already an outsider to the group simply by being Jewish, as the…

Imagine that you have a Jewish friend who is persecuted and hated because of his or her race. And he or she is looking for a place to hide, but no one is willing to provide shelter. Then he comes up to you and tells you that you are the last hope. Would you help the Jew despite knowing that you may end up in prison or at a Nazi concentration camp? Well, Corrie ten Boom, a non-Jewish Dutch woman, risked her life and suffered to save the lives of many Jews by taking them into her home to protect…

The Cleaver Acts of a Class: Inducing Shakespeare Starting of as a freshman at Washington State University, personality I had as much interest in English as a sheep would have an interest in being killed. I often found myself dreading having to take an English course because I hate grammar and worrying about where a semi-colon goes or if I should just put a period instead. I wondered If there was any other class I could take to count as my English credit, and that is how I landed on English 205…