Antonio Stradivari

The audience would feel some sort of pity for him when Antonio says, “I’m like to kick you again!” On the other hand the Elizabethan audience members might go up on stage and give him a pat on the back. When the court scene begins, Shylock is not anywhere to be seen nor is Antonio, the supposed victim of his. The duke is there who is supposed to be the master of ceremonies. One thing that you should know is that Antonio and the Duke are good friends, which puts Shylock in a bad position

caring for one another. Antonio and Bassanio are the best of friends. Although both Antonio and Bassanio’s characters possess different motivations for their actions, it is their strong

of the play, where he seeks to lend money from his disconsolate friend, Antonio. In Act 1 Scene 1, Gratiano and Lorenzo leave Antonio and Bassanio alone. At this moment, Bassanio reveals his financial crisis. Bassanio tells Antonio “’Tis unknown to you, Antonio/How much I have disabled mine estate” and also states “To unburden all my plots and purposes/How to get clear of all the debts I owe.” Bassanio is admitting to Antonio that he has squandered his wealth. Here we perceive him to be a young man

In Scene 1, Portia converses with the Prince of Morocco very politely and even invites him to dinner before he chose the casket, which seems like she is in favour of having the Prince of Morocco as her suitor. However, in Scene 7, after he chooses the wrong casket and leaves, Portia says “A gentle riddance”, which shows us that she is very happy that the Prince of Morocco is not going to be her husband. Through these scenes, I learn about Portia’s gracious character and her tact in using her appearance

casket that decides your fate. For example, The Merchant of Venice, Antonio, not only survives the fate of having a pound of his flesh taken from his body on account of his friend that could not repay the bond to a man who is seen as the devil, but gets thrice his money back and the villain is taken down. Not to mention that Antonio’s best friend, Bassanio, not only repays the bond and gets out of his debt to

rubric, I noticed a few errors. One being in question number 1, where it says,”How are Samuel, Antonio, and Cico different?”. Instead of saying “are” you would say is. “Is” is singular while “are” is plural, and since it 's talking about each individual, it would make it singular. 2) Antonio and Cico just saw a golden carp, which is a pagan god according to Samuel. Witnessing it strongly impacted Antonio, since actually seeing it was as splendid and impressive as the Catholic God. Previously observing

Symbolism is used extensively in the play The Merchant of Venice. It is used to represent aspects of the people’s culture and to signify feelings within people in love. The caskets signify the choices that people have in the community as well as depict the character of Portia’s suitors. The three caskets are the key to the marriage between Bassanio and Portia, and the rings signify the love and affection among the two of them as well. The caskets and the rings are used to enhance the two major themes

problems, and is in fact called into question by the text. I will accomplish this analyzing the legal aspects of the court’s ruling and the tribal behavior of the Venetian Christians, as well as taking a close look at the supposed mercy shown by Antonio to Shylock. After dissecting these ideas, I will relate them to several modern questions of justice and their accompanying tradeoffs. Without further ado, et us meet our plaintiff turned defendant, Shylock. While his motives are questionable (to say

tested the loyalty and trustworthiness of her husband. She dosesn't know if she can fully trust him to keep the vows and the promises he made, in marrying her and to the ring of their love, in his time of trouble. When Bassanio leaves to try to save Antonio from his debt, Portia begins to talk to Nerissa and hatching a plan: “Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand / That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands / Before they think of us.” (3.4. 50-61) Through this passage, we see it's clear that Portia

On page twenty-five of Shakespeare’s comedic play Merchant of Venice, Portia demonstrates her dislike of the suitors through dialogue and the ambiguity of her diction in order to demonstrate her feelings of unhappiness. In Act one Scene two, Portia discusses her true feelings about the suitors in prose to Nerissa. She begins by telling Nerissa her true thoughts about the German suitor: “When he [the German suitor] is best he is a little worse than a man, and/ when he is worse he is little better