CommonMod

Question 1

Paradox between Shylock’s actions
- allusion to historical context of religious conflicts
- characterisation of Shylock as experience of marginalisation
- portrays a challenge, urging audience to reflect on…

Answer 1

(1.1) “I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you…but I will not eat with you, drink with you…” (Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 2

Repetitive Rhetorical questions
- emphasises question collective prejudices against Jews
- presents Shylock as victim
- challenges audience to question own cultural assumptions

Answer 2

(1.2) “Hath not a Jews hands, organs, dimensions, senses…if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”

Question 3

Subjects to villainy

Answer 3

(1.3) “thous maks’t knife keen”

Question 4

Praising Portia as
- Biblical ref to ___ which symbolises
- irony
- allusion to his defeat

Answer 4

(1.4) “a Daniel come to judgement” (Act 4, Scene 1)

Question 5

Symbolism
- ___ is a chain used to control movement of a horse
- constraints + limitations

Answer 5

(2.1) “So is the will of a living daughter curb’d by the will of a dead father” (Act 1, Scene 2)

Question 6

Metaphor, Satire
- challenging men are not witty enough

Answer 6

(2.2) “a thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks which I will practice”

Question 7

Legalese
- emphasises ability + intellect
- challenging cultural assumptions of women as lesser

Answer 7

(2.3) “Are by the laws of Venice confiscate / Unto the state of Venice”

Question 8

Verbal irony (B doesn’t know its P)
- challenges convention of women being dominated in society

Answer 8

(2.4) “If you known the virtue of the ring…her worthiness that gave me the ring”