Themes Flashcards
What are the different themes in The Merchant of Venice?
- Appearence versus Reality
- Justice and Mercy
- Friendship
- Love
- Prejudice
- Man’s relationship to money
What scenes show the theme of Appearence versus reality?
A1S3, A2S2, A2S4, A2S7, A3S2, A4S4
How was the theme of Appearence versus reality shown in A1S3?
Give 3 quotes to support
Shylock trapped Antonio by feining friendly motives to signing the bond.
Shylock: I would be friends with you and have your love, forget the shames you have stained me with, supply your present wants, and take no doit of usance for my moneys, and you’ll not hear me. This is kind I offer.
Shylock: In a merry spot, if you repay me not on such a day, in such a place, such sums or sums are expressed in the condition, let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken in which part of your body pleaseth me.
Antonio: An evil soul producing holy witnesses like a villian with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten and the heart. O what a goodly falsehood hath!
What happens in A2S2?
Launcelot impersonates a gentleman to trick his father and provide comic relief
What happens in A2S4?
1 quote
Jessica disguises herself as a page to escape the house with Lorenzo, who is himself playing the part of a masked reveller
Lorenzo: She hath directed how i take her from her father’s house, what gold and jewels she is furnished with, what page’s suit she hath in readiness
What is in A2S7? Give a quote to support
Prince of Morroco casket scene
Prince of Morroco: All that glisters is not gold, often have you heard that told. Many a man his life hath sold but my outside to behold. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Had you been as wise as bold, young in limbs, in judgement old, your answer had not been insrcolled. Fare you well, your suit is cold.
Give 2 quotes from A3S2 that shows this theme of Appearence versus reality?
Bassanio: So may the outward shows be least themselves; the world is still decieved with ornament
Bassanio: You choose not by the view, chance as fair, and choose as true
What happened in A4S1( Appearence vs reality)
Portia and Nerissa disguise themselves as a Doctor of Laws and his deek to save Antonio.
