Merchant of Venice
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- Themes
- Love vs Hate
- Bassanio and Portia - Romantic
- Portia speaks of "ecstasy" and "joy"
- Bassanio praises Portia as "demi-god" with "sugar breath"
- Gratiano and Nerissa fall in love at first sight
- "Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica" elope
- Antonio and Bassanio share deep homoerotic love
- "I think he only loves the world for him (Bassanio)"
- Portia is racist to suitors "Let all of his complexion choose me so"
- Lancelot compares Shylock with "the devil"
- "The villain Jew"
- "My ducats and my daughter"
- Jessica steals for shylock and runs away
- Shylock plans revenge on Antonio for bond "Nearest his heart"
- Bassanio and Portia - Romantic
- Appearance vs Reality
- Antonio - "A villain with a smiling cheek"
- Shylock has dark intentions that lie behind his kindness
- Portia has "fair: exterior and politeness but is racist
- Gold and Silver caskets disguise their contradicting secrets
- Gratiano must hide his loudness to accompany Bassanio to Belmont
- Lancelot deceives his father
- Jessica deceives her father
- Jessica disguises as a man to escape
- Portia and Nerissa disguise as males in the courtroom
- Antonio - "A villain with a smiling cheek"
- Justice vs Mercy
- During trial, Shylock is asked to show mercy to Antonio, he refuses
- Portia's speech at start - "The quality of mercy is not strained"
- justice is most appropriately done when mercy is included
- At end of trial, Duke and Antonio boast of their merciful attitudes
- Happiness vs Suffering
- Happiness -three marriages
- Test of the rings
- Shylock leaves court broke, convert to christianity
- Antonio is alone at end, his sadness unresolved
- Shylocks suffering from Christians
- Shylock lost daughter nd ducats
- Jessica got out and married Lorenzo
- Bassanio picked right crate
- Father vs Daughter
- Portia has to marry whoever wins her fathers lottery
- "So os the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father"
- Patriarchal society, father controlled daughters
- Jessica is uncomfortable at home
- "Our house is hell"
- She is "ashamed" to be his daughter
- Plans to escape her fathers control
- Portia has to marry whoever wins her fathers lottery
- Love vs Hate
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