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Firstly, Shylock is treated in an inhumane way. Antonio is at Shylock’s house, trying to get a loan from him. Then, Shylock angrily replies with: “Fair sir, you spat on Wednesday last, you spurn’d me such a day, another time you call’d me dog: and for these courtesies I’ll lend you thus much monies” (1.3.121-124). Clearly, Shylock shows he is not happy with Antonio as his previous experiences with him were not pleasant. He was spat on, insulted, and treated like a dog. If one was previously…

At the surface, The Merchant of Venice and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone may seem like to completely unrelated works. The Merchant of Venice was written in the late 16th century and explores the role of antisemitism while Joe Turner’s Come and Gone was written in 1987 and portrays the life of characters living during the great migration. However, William Shakespeare and August Wilson both intentionally incorporate contrasting characters within their work. The contrasting characters have a…

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is a play with a young merchant, Antonio who would do anything for his friend Bassanio. Bassanio is in need of money to woo Lady Portia. Bassanio does not want to directly take money from Antonio; instead he goes to Shylock for loan and uses Antonio’s name as credit to borrow the loan. Shylock and Antonio have a feud; they hate each other since they work in the same business and have different religions. Also, Antonio has on numerous occasions…

Throughout the play, “The Merchant of Venice,” Shakespeare utilizes the theme of duplicity, and the misperception of people. “The Merchant of Venice” is a play about a Merchant, named Antonio who has a friend named Bassanio. He needs to borrow money to marry a wealthy beautiful maiden named Portia. To get this money Antonio has to get a loan from a jew named Shylock. Throughout the play, characters that used duplicity, affected the outcome of the plot by changing it in a way to work in their…

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…

Appearance and Reality in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice There are many things in the world which appear to be something but are complete opposites in reality. In the same manner, Shakespeare has used appearance and reality in his play as a major theme. Various characters in the play are shown as giving examples of appearance and reality. Moreover, they betray as well as are betrayed many times because of their inability to differentiate between reality and appearance. The characters in the…

William Shakespeare 's characters, in the fourth act of The Merchant of Venice, display such blatant hypocrisy that the outcome of the court proceeding is almost darkly comical. Portia speaks of mercy and yet shows none, in defense of a man who earlier showed no mercy yet later feigned innocence. On that account, Antonio had earlier spat upon Shylock, and called him any number of names and slurs. Shylock 's near moment of revenge, then abrupt fall from power mark the height of the hypocrisy of…

Antonio Antonio is a Venetian merchant with an air of melancholy about him. He has many friends and is close with Bassanio. He deeply cares for Bassanio, agreeing to his proposal and allows him to borrow money on his behalf. Antonio is said to hate Jews, showing that he has his prejudices. Although he does not usually lend or borrow money with interest, he is willing to break this habit in order to help Bassanio, showing that he deeply cares for him. Antonio has kicked and spit on Shylock in the…

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…

An Irrevocable Impact In the novel Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison stresses the impact of a sole childhood trauma on a character’s entire course of action, as well as the constant theme that surrounds it. She proves through extensive development of Macon Dead, Guitar Bains, and eventually Circe that a single event can provide a lens through which these characters view the world around them, and in turn influence every decision they make. Guitar’s life is guided by the tragedy of his father’s…