The Merchant of Venice

Marco Polo is a great explorer who was born in Venice, Italy around 1254. He was from a wealthy merchant family. He started to travel at the age of 17 with his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo. They were merchants who traded jewels with the Middle East through Asia. In 1271, the Polo family decided to go on a long, adventurous journey to China. They first traveled by sea to the Persian Gulf, and then were forced to take an ancient caravan route through present day Iraq, Iran, and…

Marco Polo’s Adventurous Life Marco Polo, the famous Italian explorer was born in 1254 in the city-state of Venice, in northern Italy, into a noble family of Venetian merchants. (Demi 1) Polo grew up watching his father and uncle come and go on voyages to trade in many places. In the 1260s, his father Niccolo and uncle Maffeo went on a trading mission to modern day Uzbekistan and ancient China. (Ernest 564) At the age of fifteen, Polo lost his mom. In the year of 1271, when Marco turned…

works remain to be popular in the 21st century due to their role in shaping and addressing matters yet significant today. One of the major issues in today’s world are financial issues and discrimination, clearly evident in William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice which talks about the financial problems of a character named Antonio and discrimination of Jewish characters such as Shylock by Christian characters such as Antonio and Lancelot shown throughout the play. Firstly, financial troubles…

The Trevor Nunn's version of the film has many good qualitys, but compared to the Michael Radford version of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice it is not as good. The Micheal Radford's film is better because of the choice of clothes, their choice in setting, and their speech also why othere belive these reasons do not make a good movie. In the Micheal Radford film the choice of their clothing was old, ladies wearing elegant dresses, men wearing cloaks and robes, it makes it feel as though…

Sexism has been an accepted part of life that should be changed as sexism was seen in Shakespeare’s writing The Merchant of Venice 400 years ago, and has yet not changed, sexism has been seen in countries around the world, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia,and the United States, but women and men have started movements to put an end to sexism. Sexism was seen in Shakespeare’s writing The Merchant of…

poet and activist. She was right, hatred has not solved a single problem yet, it has only started them. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, To Kill a Mockingbird, Defiance, Schindler’s List, Everything is Illuminated, and The Merchant of Venice’, hatred caused every problem. In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Junior left the rez school for a different school. When he decided to do this, his best friend Rowdy, and the rest of the rez, hated him.…

In the historical growth of Europe, Venice and Florence were among the top states which accelerated Renaissance and well developed states of their period. The role in the Renaissance period was significant since their influence in Northern Italy as well as in Europe at large was fairly extensive, especially that of Venice. At the same time, both states, being described by great social economic evolution, growth of arts, were considered to be practically ideals which were thought of as perfect…

Venice was a diverse metropolis for its day and age full of powerful families and merchants desperately searching to make their mark. The social hierarchy, education systems, and charitable institutions were grounded in the humanism of the renaissance. While Venice was a political example for the rest of Italy in democratic style, nobility who clung to their aristocratic roots, created a diverse and integrated community, who clung to their religious morals in dealings with their community. The…

occur overnight as his Family was a merchant one it was unavoidable that Marco will follow the footsteps of his father Niccolo and uncle Maffeo and join them in their trading business.In this essay I will analyse the processes that lead to Marco Polo becoming involved in becoming an explorer And I will do so by discussing Marco Polo’s travels Under the following Headings 1)Introduction 2)Marco Polo’s Early years 3) Marco’s travel along the silk road 4) Polo in Venice. Introduction Marco…

(Bartlett, p. 26). Italian maritime states like Venice, Genoa and Pisa greatly benefitted from the Crusades as they were the major states that supplied the transportation, equipment, management, and loans to myriads of northern knights that went to the Holy Land from the states’ ports (Bartlett, p. 26). These Italian states helped transport armies of men and equipment across the Mediterranean, which helped cultivate the maritime. Moreover, states like Venice, Pisa and Genoa gained advantages…