The Merchant of Venice Essay

When a Westerner studies Chinese history or a Chinese language, an understanding of culture is essential to every lesson as Chinese culture differs significantly from any Western culture. Therefore, it must be studied more, in order to gain mastery in social situations and to fully understand China. In my studies, one of the more noteworthy things I have come across in Chinese culture is how inextricable the concept of face is from nearly every quirk and nuance of Chinese culture. Face is the…

14th century or the 1300’s. The plague first broke out in 1330 in the north east of China. In 1346 the plague reached the city of Kaffa on the black sea, the Genoan merchants visiting China also return to Sicily, spreading the disease. By 1347 the Genoan merchants had also spread the disease to Constantinople, Cyprus as well as Venice in modern day Italy and Alexandria in Egypt. In 1348 the plague reached French cities Marseilles and Paris, also making its’ way into Spain, then moving to England…

The trade routes of Indian Ocean were dominated by Jews and Eastern Muslims. Zheng leads China to naval expeditions of the Indian Ocean. (Bernstein. W, 2009) Venice rises to the strength of Mediterranean trade with the Muslim world. Asian silk and spices reached Europe only with the help of trade with Muslims. The unstable Mamluk system based on slave-soldier governed the Islam. Crusades are twisted in an effort…

According to absoluteshakespeare.com during Shakespeare’s life, he was able to write thirty-seven plays in which were very popular such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. The play that took all of pop culture by storm would end up being Romeo and Juliet there are many movies that were produced based on plays. In addition, the one that stands out above all the rest is Franco Zeffirelli’s…

be exposed to Shakespeare much later- if at all. Since Shakespeare’s works are valuable because his works develop students’ mindsets, schools should keep them in the curriculum. At the root of Shakespeare’s works is truth. For instance, the Merchant of Venice “deals with race. It deals with discrimination. It deals with gambling, debt, and cutting people” (Rose 389), but, like all of Shakespeare’s plays, still tells “the truth, boiled down to their essences” (Petri 374). By exposing high…

Contemporary Psychologist believe that people have multiple identities and different people and situations bring out different sides of a person's identity. A person tends to behave differently with an interaction with a judge in court than with a friend at the mall The interaction with a Judge would be more courtial and a person vocabulary would be more sophisticated. They would address the Judge as “Your Honor” rather than Mr. or Mrs. Their attire would be different because the person needs to…

to think like the audience that the story was written for to understand and appreciate the plot.2. Understand the Times. Stories written in different eras may seem to use archaic or offensive language, but consider the times.Foster cites The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare in How to Read Literature Like A Professor as an example of what is considered anti-Semitic now for a character. The character he references is…

Hope Carin Britton In this semester, we have had four units that are full of hatred and prejudice. In this semester, the most important theme to me was hope. There were always the bad people. The bullies. The horrible attitudes that overcome us all sometimes; greed, rage, and hatred. Hope always won in the end. It always held on until the last moment of all of the hatred. The hope is what kept people alive in the Holocaust. Hope was always hiding in the shadows like Boo Radley. Junior…

ways of the church. He stated, “It surely is harmful to souls to make it heresy to believe what is proved.” He was ultimately confined to house arrest towards the end of his life. Galileo is responsible for developing modern astronomy. He enlightened many people during the Renaissance in Italy, and he continues to enlighten all of us today. He caused major advancements in science during the Renaissance and created an easier way of thinking. Although the task was very hard and nobody believed…

It is through the processes of time that brings about many changes in society; whether good or bad, nothing stays the same forever. The fall of the Roman Empire marked the ending of the Classical Period and the beginning of the Middle Ages. During this time, up until the 15th century, the circle of economic and political power drew not from Western Europe, for the region entailed backward kingdoms, each vying for power against one another. Nonetheless, medieval vitality, the source of dynamism…