Shylock

Hi, I’m Jessica. I’m about to tell you a story about how my life got turned upside down. About two years ago, My life took a turn. You see, Father is a tad bit overprotective. I spent all my days locked away in my room. My father, Shylock, is a stickler about us following all Jewish laws, even though it is kind of illegal. I, on the other hand, could not care less. One day, Father was being especially annoying, talking about how lucky I was to have him and be safe in his home as a Jew, and I…

In class we have discussed numerous rhetoric’s from across Shakespeare’s plays. Within them, the characters are constantly trying to persuade other characters into doing certain things. Shakespeare gives many of his characters very different methods of persuasion. 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…

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…

essence, strong, platonic relationships became instigated and strived for by all men. In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, a “pound of flesh” means, quite literally, what it asserts; if Antonio defaults on his loan, the unfortunate man will owe Shylock a pound of his flesh. In later times, this expression has come to refer to a harsh penalty and is entirely…

Key points in text:1. Consider the audience. This means when someone reads a story,they should consider the audience the text was written for.Foster mentioned The Iliad, an epic by Homer was full of violence, but the story was written for an audience who accepted violence and concubines (mistresses) as social norms. Try 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…

books we have read as kids and any story that we were taught as kids, it is one of the greatest allusions an author could use because of the majority of the population would have been told those stories growing up. As Foster stated, “We may not know Shylock, but we all know Sam I Am” (Foster 47), the reason is because Dr. Seus was taught to us as kids and anyone that has had a basic education have read one of his books. Foster had use Hansel and Gretel as his favorite “kiddie” lit because the…

In Shakespeare’s masterpiece The Merchant of Venice, Shylock decries the social state of Jews, exclaiming, “Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?... If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?” This lamentation resonates throughout history and into the present, especially as mankind reflects on the tragedy of the Holocaust. Viewed by the hostile Nazi regime as inferior, Jews were…

Anna Dereje Mrs. Baehre CP Sophomore English 122-4 24 February 2017 Jewish Politics in the Renaissance The Renaissance was a cultural transformation from the Middle Ages to modern Europe. It occurred from the 14th century to the 17th century. The Renaissance was known as the “rebirth.” It was called that and is still called that today because it was the rebirth of art, literature, and religion creating a new era. It began in what is today now Italy. Florence, Milan, Naples, Venice, and Rome…

A Movie Analysis: “American History X” Introduction “American History X” was directed by Tom Kaye and released 1998. It is a story “partly based on the life of reformed skinhead Frank Meeink, who served three years in prison for charges related to white supremacist beliefs; now an accomplished anti-skinhead author and lecturer.” (Sean Hutchinson; Mental Floss, 2015) The setting is Venice Beach near Los Angeles, California 1998, where a growing number of immigrants chose to reside after…

The term “Melting Pot” describes a model of ethnic relations in which a nation-state's constituent ethnic groups engage in a process of reciprocal fusion. The phrase entered popular parlance with such élan that its origins still remain unknown and obscure to most people. Although one might safely attribute the wide-spread dissemination of the idea to Israel Zangwill, the Anglo-Jewish Zionist-turned-assimilationist, similar references had already been made by writers like J. Hector St. John de…