Merchant Of Venice Essay Examples

The Merchant Of VeniceAccording to many people Shakespeare was the greatest playwright who ever lived. And I am inclined to agree. Even today his plays are still performed all over the world and have been translated into many languages. It is said that Shakespeare’s genius is universal and ever fresh. He wrote a great many…

Among the various themes presented in the Merchant of Venice the most important is the nature of true love. The casket plot helps illustrate the theme. Through a variety of suitors the descriptions of the caskets, Shakespeare shows the reader how different people view true love. He also shows what is most important to the…

Portia is a rich and beautiful heiress of her deceased fathers possessions. When he dies he devised a test for any suitor for Portia and asked her to keep to this plan to find the one she would marry. Her father wished to protect her against any gold diggers after her money, he wished for…

The Merchant of Venice is a controversial play among experts of Shakespeare. This play has been argued by some to be a comedy. This is because there is a lot of comic relief and the story has a happy ending. Others consider the play to be a tragedy because of Shylock’s character. He is very…

A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareMOROCCO: [Examining three caskets: one gold, one silver, one lead.]Some god direct my judgment! Let me see–I will survey th’ inscriptions back again.What says this leaden casket?‘Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath. ‘Must give — for what? for lead! hazard for lead?This casket threatens;…

A monologue from the play by William ShakespeareLAUNCELOT: Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me, saying to me, ‘Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot,’ or ‘good Gobbo,’ or ‘good Launcelot Gobbo — use your legs, take the start, run away.’ My…

This extract is from the opening scene of the play “Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare. It is from Act one scene one of the play. This is the stage at which Bassanio is asking Antonio for money in order to be able to go and attempt to win Portia over. He first begins with…

“To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge”… is one of many key lines from “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare. It is one of the memorable lines as it is the first line from Shylock’s pivotal speech based on revenge. I will be going into depth…

During the 1600’s, the city of Venice was the most liberal and powerful city state in the whole of Europe. However, intolerance of Jews was a problem which was rife. Many Jews were forced to live in the ‘Ghetto’ of Venice which was ruled by Christians. If they wished to leave the ghetto during the…

The majority of stories have a hero or heroine, as does “the merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare, in some ways most of the main characters, bar Shylock, could be perceived as a hero. After all the play is actually named after Antonio, he is the merchant of Venice. The play is based in seventeenth…