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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…

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,…

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is one of his most disputable plays for an assortment of reasons. Written in sixteenth-century England, where against Semitism was normal and the nearness of Jews was not, the play suggests numerous conversation starters concerning racial, religious and human distinction. The play is particularly precarious to inspect in the present society, as its hostile to Semitic subjects and dialect can be awkward to look in a world post-Holocaust. Also, the…

TITLE In The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Portia’s intelligence and the Beneatha’s strong empowerment being suppressed (or attempted to be) are examples of discrimination within their own societies. In The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Portia disguises herself to be able to hold any power in the Venetian court, showing the discrimination against women. Since she was disguised as a man everybody within the court held her…

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…

The Culprit Behind Shylock’s Demise The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare has one character that has a large contribution to the play, that character is Jessica. Jessica is the most important character in regard to Shylock’s folly. This is because she is the primary initiate of his anger towards Antonio. She runs away with Lorenzo and takes a large sum of her father’s goods. She also converts to Christianity because Lorenzo is a Christian. This all happens with the help of Antonio’s…

Merchant of Venice Annotation Analysis: ACT IV External Conflict: External Conflict is marked by a characteristic involvement of an action wherein a character finds himself in a struggle without outside forces. Textual Evidence: “Hates any man the thing he would kill it?” (IV.I.67). Explanation: Shylock gained the desire to want to steal a pound of flesh from Antonio. As stated by the definition an external conflict, an external conflict is a struggle from the outside forces. An episode…