The Merchant of Venice.

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Sam Hall                                                                                          20th November 2003 11Q4                                      

The Merchant of Venice


This coursework is about the Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice.

 The plot of the story is that the merchant of Venice (Antonio) borrows money from a Jewish moneylender (Shylock) and Antonio has to pay the money back to shylock within three months otherwise Shylock can take a pound of flesh from Antonio’s body.
  There is a daughter (Portia) with a rich father and when the father died he left all the money to the person that marries his daughter, but you can’t marry his daughter just like that, you have to choose a chest out of the choice of three but you have to choose the right one.
  I am doing my coursework on Bassanio; He is a Best friend of Antonio and he goes to Belmont on the search for love and wealth and tries to choose the correct chest and marry Portia e.g. Portia says

‘ You must take your chance and attempt to choose at all, or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong, never to speak to lady afterward in a way of marriage:

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Therefore be advis’d’

This means that she cant choose who she marries, she has to wait and see who chooses the right box, then she has to marry them.
Act 4 Scene 1 
This scene is the court scene where Shylock has taken Antonio to court because Antonio could not pay back the three thousand ducats that Shylock had lent him.

 Antonio oldest and best friend has chosen the right chest and married Portia, then he heard that his best friend was about to die, so he told Portia to stay in a nunnery until he gets back and he rushes off ...

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