Ismail Merchant

Robinson Crusoe Literary Criticism Essay Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a tale based of the real survival of a Scottish merchant marooned on a Caribbean island during the early 1700s. In Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves : Colonialism, the novel and Robinson Crusoe by, Brett C. McInelly (2003 John Hopkins University Press). Brett C. McInelly, talks about British and European colonialism of the era, religious conversion, expansion of trade, and the mastering of oneself and destiny In…

I find myself fascinated listening to this man. I sit here amongst a crowd of hundreds of men, women, and children. We are all amazed at the knowledge that he speaks. The man changes his tone and compares himself the bread that fell from heaven and the water that came from the rock. The rabbi next to me is angrily talking to me as if I did something wrong. He is so disgusted that the man is comparing himself to the God of Moses. I assure the rabbi that he should relax and listen to this man from…

Sometimes it’s planting false information into someone’s mind like Iago in Othello, who manipulated the title character to kill his wife. Even so, there are times when the rhetoric fails and so did the characters that gave them. In the plays The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part One, and Julius Caesar, as each rhetoric tries to convince characters in the play to do things, Shakespeare shows how words used in rhetorics can change a person or thing entirely. In As You Like It, the play is…

In Billy Budd, a novella written by Herman Melville, the main character is portrayed as a Christ-like figure. Christ is brought into this story through the personality, actions, and persecution of Billy Budd, a sailor who was impressed into service on a British naval ship the Bellipotent. Christ, as God, is the epitome of human perfection and flawlessness. Similarly, Billy Budd is described as a man of "unpretentious good looks" (Melville 8) and innocence. Like Christ, Billy Budd gives "no…

There is a fine line between those with malicious intent and good people succumbing to the physical and emotional stress that society puts on them. Such is the case in the drama, The Merchant of Venice by WIlliam Shakespeare; here, Shylock conveys that societal mistreatment along with tempting situations can cause a person to walk this line, and ultimately, can create a bad person where a good one once was. Throughout the entirety of his life, Shylock faces dehumanization, due to the fact that…

It is common to pontificate about matters of love and money, and how one comes to effect the other. At best, the true connection of love and money is undefined, and at worst, it is unknowable. In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, love and money are core themes which dictate not only the relationships of characters but the motivations of characters as well. Love and money become so interlaced in this play, that the independent existence of one without the other becomes an impossibility. Through…

One piece of literature that would convey Atwood’s views on finances, and fairness, and how it works in society is Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. This piece allows you to view how finances worked in a different time period, compared to how it was described in Payback. The merchant of Venice is Antonio whom is close friends with Bassanio. In the piece of literature Bassanio quickly depleted his funds in pursuit of a wealthy women, Portia. To continue to…

villain were to lose all he worked hard for, be abandoned by loved ones, and be forced to give up his identity after being oppressed by other civilians with strong religious beliefs, would this individual remain as villainous as intended to be? In The Merchant of Venice, a play written by William Shakespeare, a dramatic plot was set in an era where the judgement and persecution of Jewish people was acceptable. Respectively, Shakespeare chose to characterize the villain of the play to be a Jewish…

The play “Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare, takes place in 16th century Venice and talks about the brief encounter between a merchant called Antonio and a Jewish moneylender, by the name of Shylock. The play is filled with different kinds of ethical, national and gender encounters, but the biggest problem is the religious issue between Christians and Jews. The Jewish people were classified as outcasts from Christian beliefs and also treated inhumane. Anti-Semitism is a reoccurring…

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,…