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Venice
Title: Venice
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1596 | Pages: 6.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Venice
490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00490.00The play, as the title suggests, is set in Italy. Venice, in the popular
imagination of Elizabethan society, was a place of fabulous wealth,
royal merchants, richly attired gentlemen, and refined culture.
Antonio is very much a part of this society. But this is not the only
part of the Venetian picture that is portrayed in the play; another
less romantic view is also given. It is the cruel commercial and
legal side of Venice, …showed first 75 words of 1596 total…
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in Bassanio's love for Portia. The love of Gratiano and Nerissa is
modeled after the love of Portia and Bassanio. Jessica, like
Antonio and Bassanio, recognizes the greed of her father and
wants to replace it with Christian love, which she finds in Lorenzo.
The characters are, therefore, are tied together by friendship and
Christianity. In the end, the play is a romantic comedy that
emphasizes the rewards of love, generosity, and harmony.
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