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Thoughts on “The Merchant of Venice”
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.His surviving works, including some collaboration, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems.His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.His works is almost a tragedy in the world, “Romeo and Juliet”, millennium sung a thousand tearsflow;“Hamlet” a happy prince of melancholy is not too shocked a large number of people, but his comedy is also worth Time to rend.There is the plot of “The Merchant of Venice”.Baano, a young Venetian, of noble rank but having squandered his estate, wishes to travel to Belmont to woo the beautiful and wealthy heire Portia.He approaches his friend Antonio, a wealthy and generous merchant, who has previously and repeatedly bailed him out, for three thousand ducats needed to subsidize his traveling expenditures as a suitor for three months.Antonio agrees, but he is cash-poor;his ships and merchandise are busy at sea.He promises to cover a bond if Baano can find a lender, so Baano turns to the Jewish moneylender Shylock and names Antonio as the loan’s guarantor.Shylock hates Antonio, both because he is a Christian and because he insulted and spat on Shylock for being a Jew.Also, Antonio undermines Shylock's moneylending busine by lending money at zero interest.Shylock proposes a condition for the loan: if Antonio is unable to repay it at the specified date, he may take a pound of Antonio's flesh.Baano does not want Antonio to accept such a risky condition;Antonio is surprised by what he sees as the moneylender's generosity, and he signs the contract.With money at hand, Baano leaves for Belmont with his friend Gratian, who has asked to accompany him.Gratian is a likeable young man, but is often flippant, overly talkative, and tactle.Baano warns his companion to exercise self-control, and the two leave for Belmont and Portia.In Belmont, Portia is awash with suitors.Her father has left a will stipulating each of her suitors must choose correctly from one of three caskets – one each of gold, silver, and lead – before he could win Portia's hand.In order to be granted an opportunity to marry Portia, each suitor must agree in advance to live out his life as a bachelor if he loses the contest.The suitor who correctly looks past the outward appearance of the caskets will find Portia's portrait inside and win her hand.After two suitors, the Princes of Morocco and Aragon, incorrectly choose the gold and silver caskets, Baano chooses the leaden casket.He gets it right.The other two contain mocking verses, including the famous phrase all that glisters is not gold
At Venice, Antonio's ships are reported lost at sea.This leaves him unable to
satisfy the bond.Shylock is even more determined to exact revenge from Christians after his daughter Jeica flees his home to convert to Christianity and elope with Lorenzo, taking a substantial amount of Shylock's wealth with her.Shylock has Antonio arrested and brought before court.At Belmont, Portia and Baano have just been married, as have Gratian and Portia's handmaid Meria.Baano receives a letter telling him that Antonio has defaulted on his loan from Shylock.Shocked, Baano and Gratian leave for Venice immediately, with money from Portia, to save Antonio's life by offering the money to Shylock.Unknown to Baano and Gratian, Portia has sent her servant, Balthazar, to seek the counsel of Portia's cousin, Bellagio, a lawyer, at Padua.Shylock refuses Baano’s offer of 6,000 ducats, twice the amount of the loan.He demands his pound of flesh from Antonio.The Duke, wishing to save Antonio but unwilling to set a dangerous legal precedent of nullifying a contract, refers the case to a visitor who introduces himself as Balthazar, a young male “doctor of the law”, bearing a letter of recommendation to the Duke from the learned lawyer Bellagio.The “doctor” is actually Portia in disguise, and the “law clerk” who accompanies her is actually Meria, also in disguise.Portia, as “Balthazar”, asks Shylock to show mercy in a famous speech, but Shylock refuses.Thus the court must allow Shylock to extract the pound of flesh.Shylock tells Antonio to “prepare”.At that very moment, Portia points out a flaw in the contract: the bond only allows Shylock to remove the flesh, not the “blood”, of Antonio.Thus, if Shylock were to shed any drop of Antonio's blood, his “lands and goods” would be forfeited under Venetian laws.Defeated, Shylock concedes to accepting Baano’s offer of money for the defaulted bond, but Portia prevents him from taking the money on the ground that he has already refused it.She then cites a law under which Shylock, as a Jew and therefore an “alien”, having attempted to take the life of a citizen, has forfeited his property, half to the government and half to Antonio, leaving his life at the mercy of the Duke.The Duke immediately pardons Shylock's life.Antonio asks for his share “in use” until Shylock's death, when the principal will be given to Lorenzo and Jeica.At Antonio's request, the Duke Grants remiion of the state's half of forfeiture, but in return, Shylock is forced to convert to Christianity and to make a will bequeathing his entire estate to Lorenzo and Jeica.Baano does not recognize his disguised wife, but offers to give a present to the supposed lawyer.First she declines, but after he insists, Portia requests his ring and his gloves.He parts with his gloves without a second thought, but gives the ring only after much persuasion from Antonio, as earlier in the play he promised his wife never to lose, sell or give it.Meria, as the lawyer's clerk, also succeeds in likewise retrieving her ring from Gratian, who does not see through her disguise.At Belmont, Portia and Meria taunt and pretend to accuse their husbands before revealing they were really the lawyer and his clerk in disguise.After all the other characters make amends, all ends happilyas Antonio learns from Portia that three of his ships were not stranded and have returned safely after all.After reading this novel, I have suffered a lot.To start with, Antonio was left a deep impreion on me.He was a kind hearted and honest gentleman.He borrowed a lot of money from Shylock when his trading ships didn’t come back and no money could lend to Baano.Hearing the news about Antonio’s trading ships sinking in the sea, Shylock demanded Antonio’s pound of flesh rather than the double money.But at that time, Antonio didn’t complaint about his good friend, Baano, and even agreed with Shylock’s thought that gave back to Shylock a pound of flesh.He can devote his life to his friend without saying a word.Then, Portia was so smart that she saved Antonio in the court.The ”doctor“ is actually Portia in disguise, and the ”law clerk“ who accompanies her is actually Meria, also in disguise.When shylock demanded Antonio a pound of flesh, she agreed with his thought, but Portia pointed out aflaw in the contract: the bond only allows Shylock to remove the flesh, not the ”blood“, of Antonio.Thus, if Shylock were to shed any drop of Antonio's blood, his ”lands and goods" would be forfeited under Venetian laws
What’ more, play a hateful, and that neither sympathetic character,Shylock.He was forced to become a selfish and numbne man., he is a Jew;shylock.he said “don’t the eyes, noconsciousne, facial limbs, no emotion, effete? He is not to eat the same food , can be the same weapon damage , also need medical treatment , can feel could in winder , the summer heat , with Christian will feel like?”
In the future study and life,Isee a truth: “all that glitters is not gold,”and, “as long as gold is ultimately will shine.”So we should only one step a footprint, down-to-earth to succeed.
