...and inherit her house. Both the Jews and the Christians show similar traits as greed, hate and hypocricy and the need for revenge. Shylock whom we seas the villain, sets up a plan to exact a pound of flesh from Antonio, who, appears to be a good Christian. The Christians characters are hypocrites as they exhibit the same traits that they use to persecute Shylock. Shylock points this out when he says: “If a Jew wrong a Christian,what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong A Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.” (3.1.59) Shylock shows intolerance when he admits to hating Antonio for being a Christian, but later indicates that his hatred really stems from reasons other than religion. Antonio in return shows prejudice when spits and kicks Shylock whenever he comes in contact with him. We presume this is based on ethnic and religious differences . Antonio, and other Christians criticize Shylock for this hatred, but he is a hypocrite as he hates Shylock without reason. Shylock compares his right to the pound of Antonio's flesh to Christians keeping slaves. If the Christians were requested to release their slaves and show them mercy, they would reply that they own them. Shylock says in defence: Prejudice and intolerance is openly displayed by various characters in this...
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...An Old Man’s Attributes In the novel The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, Luis Sepulveda uses the character of Antonio Jose Bolivar to portray his complexities by being intelligent, passionate, and curious. Antonio José Bolívar represents intelligence based upon his outlook and how he interprets different aspects of occurrences. This is accurate on the account of his approach when Antonio showed the mayor how he was wrong about the Shuar killing the man due to the markings left on him. This allows the character to represent knowledge based on his past. “‘My God, Antonio José Bolívar, you certainly shut his excellency up. I didn't know you were a detective.” (Sepulveda 21) The author uses the Dentists reaction to give insight on how Antonio...
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...The ability to lead is not a rare quality, but possessing all of the traits that make up a great leader is anything but common. The Tempest by William Shakespeare is about a former duke of Milan, Prospero, who was banished to an island with his daughter Miranda, after his brother, Antonio, usurped his power. The play begins with a storm created by Prospero that brings Antonio and prospers other enemies onto the island, along with a romantic interest for Miranda. One of the major themes in The Tempest is political power. Shakespeare represented many different approaches to power and leadership in The Tempest. These ideas are personified in the characters of the play, Gonzalo, Antonio, and Prospero. Each character possesses a quality or lack thereof that demonstrates their approach to power. The three important qualities needed for a great leader are the ability to lead with a great...
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...like In the play 'The Merchant of Venice' by William Shakespeare, the character Bassanio is Antonio's friend. He is a bit dithery about money and tends to overspend. Nowadays we would call him a spendthrift. Any money that may have been left to him to build his future has already been wasted so he casts about for someone else's. Then he gets to hear about a girl called Portia and her amazing fortune of a dowry. In those days, a woman's finances, capital and property almost always went to her husband on marriage - even if it had been left to her by her own family. However, there is one problem. He knows he will not 'look the business' as a good potential match himself as he may not even be solvent himself. So he uses people. He tries to get the money to look good off someone who is supposed to be his friend. He is also arrogant and thinks too highly of himself, thinking he has noticed admiring looks from Portia - all in all, he does need taking down a peg or two! Karen P.L. Hardison | College Teacher | eNotes Employee Posted January 23, 2010 at 4:30 AM (Answer #2) dislike1like Bassanio in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is the central instigator of all the follows and he not the most steady young man in Venice. He has considerable bad qualities but he also has considerable good qualities, although the good ones may not be of a nature that they can counterbalance the bad. First, Bassanio is a reckless youth with no wisdom or thought for the future. He has spent whatever...
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...makes agreements even if it is a promise of love, or helping someone out. Agreements usually are made with a contract, a hand shake or by trusting the words spoken. In the play Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare, the characters Bassanio, Antonio and Shylock make many agreements throughout the play which help the reader learn about the personalities and thoughts of the characters. Bassanio makes the most risky pacts that cause a change in the thoughts and views of the other characters. Bassanio asks Antonio if he may borrow money from Shylock for him, creating a problem between Antonio and Shylock. Antonio needs to pay Shylock the money that Bassanio owes him within the next three months. Since Antonio is not able to meet that deadline, Shylock uses this opportunity to seek revenge on Antonio due to their difference in religion. Although all three men were involved, the agreement only included Shylock and Antonio. “Three thousand ducats for three months, and Antonio bound.”(I, iii, 8-9). What Shylock means by “Antonio bound” is that if Antonio cannot or does not pay Shylock, Antonio will have a pound of flesh removed from him. This shows the recklessness of Bassanio as he borrows money and does not think about the consequences Antonio will face. Another agreement Bassanio makes is a promise to his love Portia that he will never take the ring she gave him off even though his love for her originated from a want of money. “…but when this ring parts from this finger...
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...Me, Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima, follows the life of six-year-old protagonist Antonio Marez as he attempts to make sense of his life in World War II-era New Mexico. For his whole life, Antonio has lived on the Llano, a barren range of land where plant life is hard to sustain; however, his life changes when Ultima, a curandera, comes to stay with...
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...ACT IV, SCENE 1 Summary The court in Venice is in session. The Duke of Venice expresses sympathy for Antonio, who thanks the Duke for the efforts he has made in dissuading Shylock from claiming his bond. Antonio holds no grudges, for he recognizes that the law must be followed. The Duke thinks that Shylock may have brought events to this stage to torment Antonio and feels that Shylock does not really intend to have his pound of flesh. The Duke asks for Shylock to be brought in. In a final attempt to dissuade Shylock, the Duke tells him that everyone expects mercy to be shown Antonio at the last moment. He also says that Antonio has been tormented enough and should now be released. It is also hoped that Shylock will reduce the amount Antonio owes him, taking pity on his reduced circumstance. Shylock, however, has sworn to collect his due and nothing will dissuade him. He could have three thousand ducats instead of flesh, but he has refused this offer consistently. He maintains that his stubbornness is the result of the loathing that he bears for Antonio. Bassanio and Shylock argue about killing Antonio. Antonio interrupts and says that there is no point in trying to dissuade Shylock. Bassanio offers more and more of Portia's money to the Jew without any result. The Duke again asks Shylock to show mercy, reminding him that sometime he may need some mercy himself. Shylock's reply is that he will not seek pity since he does nothing wrong. He reminds the Christians that they are...
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...Shylock, Victim or Villain? Shakespears Merchant of Venice is about a merchant, named Antonio, who is approached by his best friend, Bassanio. Bassanio then asks Antonio to borrow 3000 ducats to fit in with the rich and luxorious, as he plans to marry the woman he loves, Portia. But, Antonio has put all his money into over seas voyages. So instead of lending him the 3000 ducuts, Antonio approaches Shylock, the Jewish money lender and asks him for 3000 ducats. Shylock agrees to the deal but only on the terms that if Antonio should forfeit the bond or not pay back within 3 months, then Shylock can cut a fair pound of Antonois body, where ever he wishes. Antonio agrees to Shylock’s term. Shylock, the antagonist of the play, is oftan potrayed as a villain or a victim. This next quote is said by Shylock when Bassanio and Antonio are sorting out the terms of the bond with Shylock. "How like a fawning publican he looks, I hate him for he is a Christian." This quote shows that Shylock has a hatred for Antonio because he is a christian. Although this could be due to the fact that Antonio treats Shylock badly by spitting on his 'gaberdine' and calling him names. Shylock could be thinking that all Christians are like that and that is why he hates them. In this part of the play Shylock is a villain. This next quote is said when Shylock is conversing with Salanio and Salarino. "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not...
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...Favourite Character Among the many astounding works of William Shakespeare, the merchant of Venice stands out as a masterful work of art. The accounts of the play evolve around the emotions of love, hatred and companionship. The plot encompasses various characters as they evolve into life size personalities through Shakespeare’s prodigious narrative abilities. While Shylock evolves as the overwhelmingly noteworthy figure, my favorite character remains the mesmeric heroine of the play, Portia. Her personality and grace, her astuteness and her affable sense of hilarity makes her the most likable individual in the play. In short, she embodies the virtues, typical of many other Shakespearean heroines. As the most eligible bachelorette of Belmont, the tales of her beauty reach our ears even before we meet her in the play. However, despite her attractiveness, she does not have the arrogance that comes with it. We see her bound by her father’s will into making the most imperative decision of her life, the choice of her husband. She is imposed to entertain repugnant strangers, as her potential husband. However, despite her discontent, she plays a hospitable host and maintains her elegance right through the ordeal. In addition, her looks are matched only by the intellect she possesses. In the fourth act, she emerges as the hero of the play where she dresses as a man and changes the dynamics of the play. She snatches an improbable revival, where not only does she rescues Antonio, but...
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...Shakespeare’s contemporary audience may well have seen Shylock as the ‘fierce villain’ or the ‘bloody minded monster’ (1). Today, the presentation of Shylock is more complex, with both Henry Goodman and Al Pacino showing the human and injured side to the character. Liking to find his ingredients in existing stories of his time, such as The Jew of Malta, and inventing only when he had to, Shakespeare enriched what he took with new motifs, ideas and feelings, such as his modern and somewhat controversial views of women and Jews within society. By this stage of his career, his resources of mind, verse and language gave his plays a unique, orchestral quality with theme and motif echoed everywhere. Shylock is presented as a religious man throughout the Merchant of Venice, which is undoubtedly a factor the play constantly revolves around, and a basis upon which Shakespeare can build themes and conflict on. Shakespeare not only uses religion in Shylock’s language, but also as a main theme to provide a social rift between Shylock (The Jew) and the Christian characters within the play. Jews were banished from England in Medieval times and there was still an anti-Semitic feeling in the 16th Century. Shakespeare tampers with this feeling to produce a character who we not only see as evil and savage, but also victimized and isolated due to his faith. Shakespeare characterizes Shylock by use of religion and through his language, we see how Shylock lives his life and bases his decisions around his faith...
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... which sought to deviate from the conventions of the Hollywood model, Glauber Rocha often employs themes such as hunger, violence and morality. These, in their most true-to-life forms, consolidate the harshness of the reality that permeates Brazil, particularly the Northern area, and differentiates from the idealistic American archetype. Notably in his film ‘God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun’ the aesthetics of violence and hunger is connected with the transformation of an established order or situation. The formula for this violence is different, in terms of its realisation, from the ones that are evident in American movies, where there is a strong emphasis on the confrontation between good and evil and a tendency to depict characters with supernatural capabilities. In Glauber Rocha’s film, violence is part of a social process; it is historically conditioned by the horror, the calamity and the crisis that pervades the north-eastern part of Brazil. The film is a sort of investigation or criticism of this area, and throughout its length Glauber captures the hardship of this area. He communicates, through images and dialogue, through the drought, the social inequalities, the misery, the hunger, the religiousness and the chain of power, the relationship between cause and effect. That is to say, the violence in ‘God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun’ is consequential of the peculiarities that trouble social life....
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...work of art. The accounts of the play evolve around the emotions of love, hatred and companionship. The plot encompasses various characters as they evolve into life size personalities through Shakespeare’s prodigious narrative abilities. While Shylock evolves as the overwhelmingly noteworthy figure, my favorite character remains the mesmeric heroine of the play, Portia. Her personality and grace, her astuteness and her affable sense of hilarity makes her the most likable individual in the play. In short, she embodies the virtues, typical of many other Shakespearean heroines. As the most eligible bachelorette of Belmont, the tales of her beauty reach our ears even before we meet her in the play. However, despite her attractiveness, she does not have the arrogance that comes with it. We see her bound by her father’s will into making the most imperative decision of her life, the choice of her husband. She is imposed to entertain repugnant strangers, as her potential husband. However, despite her discontent, she plays a hospitable host and maintains her elegance right through the ordeal. In addition, her looks are matched only by the intellect she possesses. In the fourth act, she emerges as the hero of the play where she dresses as a man and changes the dynamics of the play. She snatches an improbable revival, where not only does she rescues Antonio, but pays back the vengeful Jew Shylock. Through the act, she displays sheer intellect and discernment. However, beauty and brains...
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...Team Simulation For the benefit of explaining personal decisions made while participating in a simulation, the author has chosen to write some portions of this paper in first person. The simulation provided participants an opportunity to apply tools and information to a simulated environment. In the simulated environment the goals for participant were to “identify team member roles and responsibilities, identify the qualities of an effective group leader, and explain methods of managing difficult group members” (University of Phoenix, 2010, p.1). The simulation involved assembling a team, managing team conflict, decision-making, and evaluating decisions. The purpose of the team in the simulation was “to discover the drug trafficking organizations responsible for the flow of drugs across the US Mexico border” (University of Phoenix, 2010, p. 2). Identify Team Member Roles and Responsibilities In the first part of the simulation participants, whose role in the simulation was Special Agent in Charge, were required to create a task force. The participant was presented with profiles of the candidates. The four positions, which the special agent needed to assign, were Lead Agent, Assistant Lead Agent, Intelligence Agent, and Field Specialist. As a participant I selected Sam to fill the position of Lead Agent. Sam was selected because his twelve year career experience with a concentration in drug regulation, ability to speak Spanish and strong work ethic. For the position...
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... Subject: Human Behavior Organization Date: October 29, 2014 ______________________________________________________________________________ Giving emotions to virtual character is written by Investigacion y Desarrollo located in this website (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140731094647.htm). Researchers were able to stimulate human facial expressions in virtual characters and use them in order to create better environment within a virtual communication. So far, the so-called virtual agents also mimic human behavior through programmed commands or scripts, but this result in a very "robotic" reaction, which is not interesting for the user, said Marco Antonio Ramos Corchado, engineer at the Department of Computational Science at UAEM. The main objective of the research is to generate expressions and emotions based on real people, taking as reference the 43 muscles involved in facial behavior depending on the psychological environment. To achieve this in human models, tactile sensors were placed that release tiny electrical pulses to provoke different gestures with which a 3D camera captures the personality traits. With the data collected, multiple virtual characters were included in project called "serious game" which, unlike video games consoles or computers, does not seek to entertain, but to run different educational, scientific or civil strategies, detailed the UAEM engineer. Human behavior...
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...In what ways does the dialogue develop your responses to Portia and Shylock in the play as a whole? In The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare uses many different uses of language and responses to build up the audiences feelings towards different characters in the play. Two of the characters whose language is very important to your perception of them are Portia and Shylock; they use very different types of language to make the same point. In Portia’s speech she puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that “the quality of mercy is not strained” meaning that mercy should be given freely and is “an attribute of that God himself” this shows that Christians believe that when mercy is given freely without having to be asked for means you become a better man and she suggests to shylock that if you give mercy to Antonio you become merciful and therefore become closer to a Christian. She also implies that Christians are always merciful therefore they are more godly beings than any Jewish person. The language Portia use to put across this point is very poetic which personifies the belief in Christians that they are higher and better than the Jews in every way. A way Shakespeare makes Shylocks seem atavistic is by using iambic pentameter to make his language quick, snappy and straight to the point. After Portia finishes her speech shylock snaps back saying “I crave the law” showing he is not interested in using poetic language and being merciful he just wants “the forfeit of my bond” this shows...
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