Portia in The Merchant of Venice Essay

be nothing more than an abundance of meaningless of words on sheets of paper. William Shakespeare, for example, utilizes themes as the main component in The Merchant of Venice. The themes William Shakespeare uses hold ulterior messages and morals in which the audience may draw meaning from. From the many themes within The Merchant of Venice, three are most prominent; revenge, prejudice towards minorities, and the inherent corruption of justice. An introductory…

for one 's precious ones is often explored through literature. In the play, Merchant Of Venice, the playwright William Shakespeare, utilizes powerful characterization to suggest that taking risks for the people one loves, blinds one of the consequences that may arise. Portia is a kind woman…

potential antisemitism. Few of Shakespeare’s characters have the infamy of Shylock from the play The Merchant of Venice. Shylock is a Jewish character written as a stereotype: a secretive Jewish merchant running illegal money lending schemes in the city of Venice. Shylock has been the subject of hundreds of years of discussion surrounding racism and the nature of performance. In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare uses stereotypes to show how the institution of racism not only turns members of…

as the interest for not paying back three thousand ducants in time, simply because he “hates him for he is a Christian” and because Antonio “lends out money gratis, and brings down/ The rate of usance here with us in Venice” (1.3.38-40). Basically, Antonio is bad business for merchants like Shylock and a pound of his flesh would “feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him” (1.3.43). This solidifies Shylocks greedy nature, or how Shylock “embodies the evil side of the power of money” (Barber 190).…

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare are classified as a fiction books. However, they reveal many truths about the human condition when it comes to prejudice and racism. In TKAM, we saw how racism took a life of an innocent Tom Robinson as a disease, and how prejudice about Boo Radley spread out in Maycomb. In the MOV we witnessed the religious prejudice (Christian vs. Shylock), and the racism against the Prince of Morocco with black skin. There…

By the end of the novel scout had matured slightly and while she wasn’t going to go completely for the southern womanhood role she was much more at peace with the fact she was a girl. by the end of the book she had found positive role models in Miss Maudie and Calpurnia who had both put being a woman into perspective and an admirable light when she looked at how they lived their lives, and she had stopped being so bothered when Jem called her a girl because she was no longer spending all her…

main components of Radford’s portrayal of The Merchant of Venice that create an all around superior film than Nunn’s portrayal of the Shakespeare play, the time period, the cast, and the way the film is shot.Michael Radford kept the time period that the film takes place in the same as the original text, while Trevor Nunn did not and changed the time period in his movie to in between World War I and II. The cast in this adaptation of The Merchant of Venice are great actors and at the helm is…

taken from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ by William Shakespeare, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood, love is seen to be interpreted in various ways. It is portrayed that whilst love is strong, lovers must be patient, dedicated and selfless for their relationships to be functional. It can also be seen that love is a choice, but that the choice is manipulated by the society in which we live. The first extract from ‘The Merchant of Venice’, presents idea…

Sexism has been an accepted part of life that should be changed as sexism was seen in Shakespeare’s writing The Merchant of Venice 400 years ago, and has yet not changed, sexism has been seen in countries around the world, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia,and the United States, but women and men have started movements to put an end to sexism. Sexism was seen in Shakespeare’s writing The Merchant of…

By disguising herself as Balthasar it allows Portia to enter the courtroom since women were not allowed to practice law at the time. She enters court well prepared with knowledge of the Venetian law when she says, “Yet in such rule that the Venetian law / Cannot impugn you as you do proceed” (MV IV.i. 175-176). She tries to get Shylock to be merciful but he continues to insist on revenge and justice. Just when Shylock is about to collect his bond, Portia or Balthasar finds a…