... to her especially when it comes to the happiness or unhappiness of Bassanio. There are many places in the Merchant of Venice that show Portia and Bassanio's indifference, and what seems to be apathy toward wealth. Many are hidden and many are as clear as day to the reader. I found that reading into The Merchant of Venice was a fun and interesting experience. The way Shakespeare wrote his plays ... means to get there due to his extravagant living which has left him in debt to others. At first money seems to be of some importance to Bassanio, but towards the middle of the play his thought...

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... some different interpretations of the role of Shylock in "the Merchant of Venice". "The Merchant of Venice", one of Shakespeare's comedies, is based around a group of Venetian Christians. The real power of the play however lies in the characterization and history of Shylock, a Jewish usurer, who charges high rates of interest on his lendings. Shylock is dedicated to his faith and has a good knowledge of the Torah, which he uses in his general conversation, ... he is a well-educated figure. As John Palmer explains, "The man lives in every word he utters. He has a distinct language of his...

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The Merchant of Venice In the world of Shakespeare's play, the Merchant of Venice, contracts in their many forms are very important. There are binding legal agreements such as Shylocks contract with Antonio and the legalitorys surrounding Portia's fathers will. Less rigorous are the traditional expectations, ... the hatred and mistrust he has concerning Antonio, this hatred stems from the fact that Antonio: "Lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice" (I, 3,41-42) But more importantly because of his religious beliefs: "How like a fawning publication he l...

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... are also trading cultures and learning about a new group of people. The second idea of trade among countries happens when, through Hans, Eyre gets the deal of a lifetime from the Skipper. Dekker is showing the importance of trade in this scene when Hodge, one of the shoemakers, tells Firk, "The truth is, Firk, that the merchant owner of the ship dares not show his head for the love ... he bears to Hans, offers my master Eyre a bargain in the commodities" (17-20). By hiring Hans ... stumbled into a great trade opportunity with a foreign merchant. Eyre has become a rich man because he wa...

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... love for his beloved may have been genuine and brings Paris into the crypt, rather than leave him dead outside, so that Paris may be buried in a "triumphant grave." (Shakespeare 759). The loss of love is a devastating experience. Lovers feel panic, despair, and eventually, total detachment. (Hatfield and Sprecher 287). Romeo never gets to the detachment ... stage, as he kills himself in despair. Cognitive components of passionate love include: 1) adolescent lovers spend much of their time thinking about the other; 2) adolescent lovers tend to attribute such favorable attributes as beauty...

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... place in an exotic and fantastical world, it requires some suspension of disbelief. "Goldman- interrupts and tells the reader what the outcome of the story or particular scene is going to be (p.71). By telling the reader what is going to happen, "William Goldman- doesn't allow for the mystery and suspense that is characteristic of the romance tradition. His regular use of foreshadowing (e.g. ... have magical properties and set the story apart from reality. The Princess Bride is set in a land of "giants- "beasts of all natures and descriptions- "truth- "passion- and miracles-(p.17). Ther...

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... most difficult times. Moreover, Desdemona is an independent character that loves Othello, but always has her own opinions as well. Furthermore, a piece of cloth that symbolizes their love is overpowered by their truthful feelings for each other. Consequently, in Shakespeare's Othello, Desdemona and Othello are independent characters that portray their eternal love throughout the play. To begin, Othello's love is proven to ... for her rights when necessary. Therefore, Desdemona is not bewitched by Othello and understands what is right and wrong. Moreover, a failed token of love is overpo...

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... cant be seen with ones natural eyes, but it is something one feels with their emotions. The same idea can be seen throughout the tragedy of King Lear. Eyesight, blindness, and hallucination are a reoccurring theme in the play. This theme is mainly portrayed through the characters, Lear and Gloucester. Lear can physically see but is blind to the truth. Gloucester becomes physically ... was blinded by Cornwall, who called him a traitor, because he defended Lear. Regan sends him outside to wander, and Gloucester tries to find the cliffs of Dover to commit suicide. On his way he meets Edgar...

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... best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Love plays a very important role in Hurston's "Their Eyes were watching God". Hurston's best novel describes the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. Janie is raised by her Grandmother and spends her life traveling with different men until she ... . Meanwhile, Janie searches for love and she gets married three times. Each marriage helps Janie finds her own wishes and goals in life. Janie gets her definition of love from "nature," when she witnesses the "marriage" between the pear tree and the bee. Now that sh...

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... . Elizabeth Proctor - Act 2 (Page 41 - 46) As Elizabeth greets Proctor with a question about where he has been, we know that she is suspicious of him. I would come in and look at John with a neutral smile to show she is not best pleased with him. I would then turn around and busy myself with something else such ... should be firm and sharp. When she brings John his dinner and he asks her if she is well, she replies shortly and coldly, knowing that she is in control of John as he is plagued by his guilt. I think as John is continually nice and sympathetic to her, she is warmer towards him ...

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... Thee to a Summer's Day?" and John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning". These poems tell of love and the depths of love the speakers has for their beloved even if the love is not given back in return. Ann Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband," is an interesting poem because its ... who is also a poet who wrote "Meeting at Night. She uses iambic pentameter lines (Wadsworth 637) and starts to count the ways in which she loves him. Let's analyze the first two lines of the poem, "How Do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I Love thee to the depth and height my soul ... c...

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... interpret it can definitely be skewed by our feelings. She is very much so caught up on how Demetrius doesn't notice her true beauty. I can think of many times in my life where I felt the most insecure, and I quickly turned to my physical attributes. I can remember myself thinking, "Maybe I'm not strong ... back together with their exes because they cannot stand the sight or even the thought of their ex with somebody else. Helena's words bring out that type of emotion. Helena takes her feelings of rejection to a different realm of truth, in which she begins to diss her lover. "Things base...

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... belief only defines a nuclear family. The nuclear family has been around for millennia, but are now becoming far and in between. In 1970, 40 percent of households were married couples with children. Such households made up 19 percent of homes in 2013 (Babay 1). The result of this decline perhaps involves couples not marrying and simply start raising kids like my parents did. Other families may or ... live under the same roof. When it comes to blood relation, the nuclear family is not alone. Single parent families are one of the most common families of the twenty-first century. In fact, ...

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... Hamlet is a Prince, and that he may be forced to choose a wife who has royal blood, regardless of whom he might actually love. Therefore Ophelia could not become Hamlet's wife. In addition, Laertes suggests that his sister should remain "chaste" as she would lose her honour if she lost her ... virginity to Hamlet before marriage, and she would become worthless. In fact, Laertes believes Ophelia should "fear it"; fear Hamlet, as she is "in the morn and liquid dew of youth", and henceforth more easily corrupted. Ophe! lia's brother tells her that even "The chariest ... dalliance" himself S...

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... based on where you work, go to school, or live; proximity. Another factor in this decision making process is what you have in common; similarities. Once you're in love u can be secure, anxious, or avoidant in your attachments. The attachment theory of love states that people's attachment styles as adults derive in large part from how their parents cared for them. Securely attached lovers are ... women would be better prepared to understand each other if they realized that they have similarities in basic anatomy and physiology. Testosterone is a hormone that promotes sexuality in both sexe...

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... scenes with Janie's husbands: Logan Killick, Joe "Jody" Starks and Virgible "Tea Cakes" Woods, Hurston's language utilizes symbolism in foretelling what Janie's relationship will be with each of them. Janie experiences many ups and downs throughout the book, but finally she sees the horizon and emerges as the free spirited woman that she has always yearned to be ... ; and a "lonesome place" (Hurston 39). Janie attempts to appease Nanny. She agrees to partake in an arranged marriage out of fear that if she didn't, she would follow in the footsteps of Nanny and Janie's mother, both of whom...

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... Love to some people is buying things to make a person happy. Love can also be confused with how you treat or act around someone. But those ways of looking at love in my mind are not complete. Love can be shown to people, animals, or even objects. Love to me is putting someone else's happiness first no matter ... it just does not work that way. When you buy an object for someone they at first seem to be all adoring of the gift and say they love you for it but in reality they are just satisfied that they got their object. When you love for someone you should not have to buy something ... ...

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... evil at the end or vica versa. Their goodness or evilness is clearly shown from the beginning. A Tale of Two Cities takes place in England and France, during the time of the French Revolution. A Tale of Two Cities is a classic novel, where Charles Dickens presents to the reader archetypal main characters. From the ... I should know it to be hopeless, I should know it to be a baseness. If I had any such possibility, even at a remote distance of years, harboured in my thoughts, and hidden in my heart- if it ever had been there-I could not now touch this honoured hand" said Darnay to Dr. Ma...

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... Juliet must consummate their marriage after the wedding, Shakespeare makes it clear that their love is clearly different. They could have both chosen to sleep together without the blessing of marriage in front of God and the Church however they choose to do so making their love more then just simple lust. Almost every other character within the play treats sex as a mere ... joke, making obscene and blunt comments. In this way Shakespeare makes a point about the innocence of couple also suggesting that time and thus familiarity causes the attitude towards sex to degrade. Another issue is...

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... similar, her burning passion for Rochester vs. her brotherly love for St John. Her life story shows the difficulties and rewards of balancing passion and reason. Edward Rochester is her employer, and the first real man in her life. She falls madly in love with him, but for a governess to even consider romantic involvement with her rich employer was considered ridiculous. Marriage to ... a levelheaded man, who never does anything rash, wild, or without reason, and the same goes with his love life. St John falls in love with Rosamond, the beautiful daughter of Mr. Oliver, Morton's wealthi...

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... was strongly tempted to her fall -- and that, moreover, as is most likely, her husband may be at the bottom of the sea;--have not been bold to put in force the extremity of our righteous law against her. The penalty is thereof death" (Hawthorne 56). Different cultural upbringings and different thoughts influence ... they choose whether to be good or evil . How important is nature? "But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile bea...

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... life, or remain living until you're too old and weak to take care of yourself? In Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover," the author takes us inside the mind of a madman who reveals the dark side of human nature, and how death is twisted into a demented form of compassion. In "Porphyria's Lover," a dramatic monologue, the author gets his points across through the use ... set its struggling passion free/ From pride, and vainer ties dissever,/ And give herself to me forever" (21-25). This passage is perhaps one of the most important in the entire poem. The word choices in these lines are n...

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... so she tries to know what Deborah had been like. Rosaleen is the first to be shown as someone in Lily's life that treats her with the affection that of a mother, however she is not as Lily imagines her own mother to be in aspects of mannerisms and gentleness." 'Cause I ain't gonna care" That was a lie. ...despite her sharp ways, her heart ... protection that is provided when T.Ray can be prevented from harmful ideas toward Lily. Rosaleen cleans the mess that Lily creates when throwing Honey jars in frustration at The lady in chains, raising Lily from her hour of grievances. Lily gr...

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... be his own forever." (205a) There is a need to refine this broad definition which would include as lovers those who try to attain the good by any means. The purview of love, in Plato as in common language, is restricted "to those whose enthusiasm is directed at one specific type who are described by the terminology that belongs to the whole class, that ... an abstract function which is at the core of Platonic love. If the object of love is to have the good forever, the function of love is "giving birth in beauty both in body and in mind." (206b) Diotima begins her explanation of how "al...

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... conclude, quick for him to be touched and fascinated, but I think this is what makes it strong, deep, and long lasting. Love in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog" is somewhat different. Dmitry Gurov, a married well-of native of Moscow, was spending another summer vacation, far from his wife and children. Middle-aged, he was bored with his family life and his ... intelligence, narrow-minded, dowdy" , particularly. His life was surrounded by women, whom he attracted and who let him feel free and comfortable, despite their "inferiority". Here, in a summer resort of Yalta, he met a young...

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