The Merchant of Venice

will be insulting others while “hell” is expressed to show negative feelings such as anger and discontent. One interesting fact connecting the word to Shakespeare is to wish someone would go to hell is written in 1600 in the content of the “Merchant of Venice”. There are another phases linked to hell as well. “Sure as hell” equals to the meaning of absolutely which is not an insulting usage unlike those have been discussed…

agriculture, industry, and trade, and gained most of its wealth through control of the trade routes that passed through his territory. Trade flourished internally and externally as The Kingdom of Mali was rich with gold and salt, and traders and merchants knew they would travel safely on trade…

Timekeeping was an important variable to help progress our economic system and strengthen capitalist ideals. David Landes’ Revolution in Time and E.P. Thompson’s Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism were both written with obstacles of time-work discipline in mind. In Landes’ work, he focuses on the historical motives and origins of clock creation to support his claims and explains that “The clock did not create an interest in time measurement; the interest in time measurement led to…

Furthermore, the price of these goods was high, as the goods had been transferred from merchant to merchant, each time adding up to the price (Anderson, 2000, pp. 51-56). With the rise of the Ottomans and the Mamelukes, the prices of these goods went up even more, providing the Portuguese an economic incentive to look for new routes to the East.…

The Mongols were a nomadic people who grazed their horses and sheep on the vast, treeless plains, of Central Asia. Rival Mongol clans spent much of their time warring with one another. In the early 1200s, however, a brilliant Mongol chieftain united these warring tribes. This chieftain took the name Genghis Khan, meaning “Universal Ruler.” Under his leadership, Mongol armies swept to triumph. In the 13th century CE the Mongols created the largest connected land mass empire in the history of the…

The expansive influence William Shakespeare has had on media and the world of literature is undeniable. His poems number into the hundreds and he wrote over three dozen plays which have been performed almost constantly since their debut. Reading Shakespeare is even mandatory in high schools across the United States. Just like Shakespeare’s influence can be seen in other plays throughout history (and even across languages), such as Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell1, it can be found in tons of…

As evident from any Dickensian novel the leading female character portrays Victorian morality of womanhood. It has been no surprise that main protagonist Esther Summerson in Bleak House portrays ideal household lady in old England as someone full of compassion, motherly love, self-effacing combining unceasing flow of spirits, extreme activity and diligence, her punctuality, uprightness and remarkable frugality that distinguishes her from her mother, Lady Deadlock who epitomize the vanity of era…

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…

“A relation, or Rather a True Account of the Island of England” is an account by a Venetian ambassador who travelled to the realm to negotiate a treaty between the English and Italian states, who at this time were uniting against the French. The findings would be presented by the ambassador to the senate upon his return from the mission(v), and would be used to determine policy, and measure strengths and weaknesses of the newly formed treaty. The author, who remains unnamed to history,…

He folded his hands on the table and began to tell his story. “A city known as Constantinople was founded in 324 AD by the emperor Constantine, in the Greek city of Byzantium. His reason for this? Western Europe, where Rome had once thrived, was being torn apart by attacks from other parts of Europe. Constantine decided that he would have to move somewhere else in order to be safe from destruction and invasion. Western Europe would later be known as Christendom, because of the importance of…