The "Merchant Of Venice" is a poem I have studied recently and will be going on to describe it's four themes - Love/Hate/Friendship and Money. I will go on to describe contrasting characters in the poem.

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Merchant Of Venice The “Merchant Of Venice” is a poem I have studied recently and will be going on to describe it’s four themes - Love/Hate/Friendship and Money. I will go on to describe contrasting characters in the poem.         The theme Love is mostly shown through Portia & Bassanio, because all she wanted was to have a choice in the man she married and the reason she could not do this was because her fathers will had forbidde. When Portia & Bassanio meet they really feel they want to be with each other but
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she does not want Bassanio to chose casket straight away because if he picks the wrong casket he must not see Portia again. He feels there is no time like the present. He studies the caskets carefully then chooses the lead casket and asks Portia for the key. He opens the casket & surprisingly he sees a picture of Portia and scroll permitting the man who opens the casket to marry his daughter and tells them what else they will receive.        Hate, hatred comes from Shylock and his hatred for Christians so naturally Christians will hate him. As Shylock is ...

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