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Shylock's trial at the end of the play is a mockery of justice, with Portia acting as a judge when she has no real right to do so. Shakespeare does not question Shylock's intentions, but that the very people who berated Shylock for being dishonest have resorted to trickery in order to win. Shakespeare gives Shylock one of his most eloquent ...
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598.A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan taken out on behalf of his dear friend, Bassanio, and provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock, with seemingly inevitable fatal consequences.
Jessica is the daughter of Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (c. 1598).In the play, she elopes with Lorenzo, a penniless Christian, and a chest of her father's money, eventually ending up in Portia and Bassanio's household.
Portia is a female protagonist in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.In creating her character, Shakespeare drew from the historical figure of Porcia [1] — the daughter of Cato the Younger — as well as several parts of the Bible.
The Quality of Mercy, a Socialist novel by William Dean Howells, published in 1892; The Quality of Mercy: An Autobiography, by American actress Mercedes McCambridge, published in 1981
This act begins with Antonio's trial. The Duke pleads with Shylock to give "a gentle answer", a double entendre on the word Gentile, which meant anyone except a Jew. Shylock refuses to deny his bond. Bassanio and Gratiano are in attendance and advocate strongly that the Jew be thwarted by any means necessary.
After Hazlitt's account, according to Bromwich, it became less easy to find a simple resolution to the problems in the play or to withhold entirely our sympathy for Shylock, [135] particularly in view of a passage like the following: Shylock is a good hater; "a man no less sinned against than sinning." If he carries his revenge too far, yet he ...
In this play, Shylock is a good man and the good friend of Antonio, the title character in Shakespeare's play. [10] They bond in their love of knowledge and mutual dislike of the antisemitism in their community. [11] [12] Shylock's demand for a pound of flesh is meant as a jest, but he cannot retract it. Both Shylock and Antonio are relieved ...