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  • Most Controversy And The Merchant Of Venice
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    "I find it impossible to think of Shylock as a really nice chap; he is just better quality stuff than any of the Christians in the play. They are truly vile, heartless, money-grabbing monsters, and when Shylock makes his final exit, destroyed by defeat, one should sense that our Christian brothers are at last thoroughly ashamed of them-selves. The Merchant of Venice is horrid, cruel, and one of the most popular plays in the whole collected volume of Shakespeare". Laurence Olivier Well, there you...
  • Play The Merchant Of Venice
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    The Merchant of Venice: A Tragic Play In my opinion the play The Merchant of Venice is a tragic one which as being comic. Many factors of this play are derived from the current voice of situation. The Merchant of Venice could be looked at as more tragic because of the negative intents from some of the characters in the play. Greed and deception are just a couple of the main features from where many of the decisions are derived. For example, revenge was an intent thatSylock had against for Antoni...
  • Auden's Dystopia The Merchant Of Venice
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    Auden, W.H. "Brothers and Others."The Dyer's Hand" and Other Essays. New York: Random House, 1948. In a casual but seminal essay on the play, Auden calls The Merchant of Venice one of Shakespeare's "Unpleasant Plays". The presence of Antonio and Shylock disrupts the unambiguous fairy-tale world of romantic comedy, reminding us that the utopian qualities of Belmont are illusory: "in the real world, no hatred is totally without justification, no love totally innocent". Auden's Dystopia The Merchan...
  • Gospel And Merchant Of Venice
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    Title: Religious allusions in Merchant of Venice and the gospel (Mark) Date completed: 2/5/2003 There were indeed many religious allusions in the Merchant of Venice "C anti-Semitism being one of the main themes portrayed through various allusions in relation to one of the four gospels, Mark. In Merchant of Venice, Jews are portrayed to be the! (R) evil! or! (R) bad! characters "C the only Jews in the play were Shylock, his daughter Jessica and Tubal; Jessica later converted to Christianity after...
  • Shakespeare's Venice
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    A Product of Society? It is hard to determine whether or not Shakespearean comedy is clearly a product of Elizabethan courtly society. It can be said that the answer to that question is both yes and no. It is apparent in The Merchant of Venice that Shakespeare's writing was strongly influenced by the society surrounding him, while A Midsummer Night's Dream is much less realistic and so original that one might think Shakespeare came from another time period all together. In The Merchant of Venice...
  • A Plea For Tolerance In The Merchant Of Venice
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    The Merchant of Venice is a romantic play, written around 1597 AD, by William Shakespeare. It is mainly about the beautiful things in life, like love and friendship. However, the play also has a darker side. Firstly, the Venetians in the play are very antisemitical, they hate the Jewish ethnic group. Moreover, they do not only hate the Jews, they hate everybody that is considered different than themselves. Finally, when reading the play it becomes apparent that the Venetians are very hypocritica...

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