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MERCHANT_OF_VENICE_ESSAY
Title: MERCHANT_OF_VENICE_ESSAY
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 918 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
MERCHANT_OF_VENICE_ESSAY
“Show how Shakespeare makes a contrast between Venice and Belmont”.
In William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare shows the contrast of the two worlds, Belmont and Venice, by representing Venice as a masculine world of commerce and competition, which is dominated by the language of money, and representing Belmont by a feminine world of marriage and love, and also by Portia. The fact that both the worlds are given gender roles does indicate …showed first 75 words of 918 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 918 total…Belmont and Venice. It is obvious that, through the contrasts, Shakespeare was making some sort of statement about the way in which different sexes live their lives. By creating such different worlds, Shakespeare indicated that perhaps Venice symbolised the male population and Belmont symbolised the female population – two very contrasting groups. By using Bassanio and Portia as the main characters, Shakespeare was also perhaps relating to one of his own long-distance love affairs.
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