‘’ let him stand before our face’’- against is the duke is a prejudice man who only has care for Christian. In the first few lines of the duke; we can realise that he has no sympathy towards shylock because he is a Jew. When addressing Antonio the duke refers to as ‘’ what is Antonio here’’, however he refers to shylock as the Jew ‘’ go on and call the Jew’’. We can see in these lines prejudice and Anti-Semitism views. The duke doesn’t see shylock as worthily of having a name and just calls have by his race even thought justice. The reason that shylock gives for wanting his pound of flesh is because shylock has an old grudge against Antonio. And further shylock is upset that Antonio lends out money without charging interests. There by lowering the amount he is able to charge for lending out his Antonio has missed treated shylock in the many ways. The way that Antonio lends out money without giving interest and shylock is a Jew and Antonio is a Christian. And now shylock wants revenge on Antonio sign a bond without shylock saying that if Antonio fail to pay up the 3,000 Ducats with interest, Antonio own shylock a pond of flesh. And that’s why shylock wants he’s pond of.
In line 70-83 Antonio shows Anti-Semitism towards shylock by saying ‘’ I hear you, think you question with the Jew’’. You may as well as go stand upon the teach and bid the man hood rate his usual height. This encourages the audience to feel sorry and sad for shylock because in line 70-83 Antonio show Anti-Semitism views towards shylock. I would director the duke by being violent and argy towards shylock for making that tirade against Venice, why because shylock has no right to make a long, angry speech like that. When Gratiano abuse shylock I would director the actor delivering these words to be emotional, rude and disrespectful way. The actor playing as shylock would feel a bit down and say as well as sorry for him self whiles Grantiano is saying these words. The words said my Grantiano tell us that his character is about a mean sad person who does like Jewish people in Venice there are many Jew’s there.
When the duke read the letter out from Ballerio the expectation that set up for the audiences about Balthazar is that the thing that Balthazar is a mystery character. The words and phrase about him are intended to impress him about that he is a mystery character. Before Portia gets summoned to appear in the male thinking that the court, Portia would be thinking that the court is full of men and she would be intimidated by them. And Portia would be thinking off what will happen when she goes in the court room.
Portia said in her speech that as one demands for justice. I would he direct the actor playing as Portia to talk hardly as if she is reciting a poem as she says he speech in lines 180-193. I would expect to use a soft tone that is how and also should walk gently around the court to both the persecutors and dependant. The actor should also pound on emphasize her point about many and the central theme which is that for justice.
Apart from Portia, many other characters in the play disguise them as what they don of seen to be. Nerissa who dresses as a lawyer clerk disguises herself as a male yet she is a female. Jessica dresses as a boy so she could have high dances of running away from her fathers houses. Like Lancelot Gobbo mislead their father old Gobbo who ask for directions. I would direct the person playing Portia to walk like a man in this tragedy and she should walk away from Bassanio to present close recognised of her body structure, she may also talk in a deepened voice that is manlike. Also she would adopt some masculine qualities that make her unrecognisable.
According to what Bassanio say in lines 206-214, his speech show that he requests Portia to flits the law that governs Venice. Through Portia refuses to do this her refuse is due to the feel that there is no power in Venice that can alter a device established. I would direct the actors playing Bassanio and Portia to start to out land as they say these words. They would also body language to show these great disagreements driving the court wives to the men are present at court and are playing a great role but these men are not brave. This reduces the tension that been mounting the audience in court and makes the court scene move interesting.
I would direct the actor specking these words in an angry way and shylock would react in a vicious senseless way. Shylock is so near to cutting Antonio but Portia manages to stop him. Shylock is told that if he takes his pound he must not shed one tiny drop of Antonio blood on the floor.
Portia maintains about the law of Venice ‘’ wait a moment, Jew she consult her law book again it is a law pf Venice that if it is powered against an alien that by direct or indirect the person against where he plots is entitled to seize one half of his of his possessions. The other half goes to the state treasury. The life of the other offender is at the duke sale discretion. She colourless the book, I say you stand in that predicament. It is obvious from your actions, that indirectly, and directly to, you have plotted against the life of the defendant, you indeed of in danger of death penalty, as I have explained. Down on your knees, therefore beg the duke for mercy. The gestures that gratin uses while like in a specking in an angry moody way, express his feeling while he is specking. The ways that shylock has two options: one: he shall become a Christian immediately in court, learning all he possesses at his son in law Lorenzo, and his daughter. Antonio has given up his prejudices against shylock from the past. Before shylock leaves the courtroom I would directed his lasted words saying: ‘’ I hope you got what you wanted old Christian’’. The instruction that I’ll give to shylock is that as leaves the courtroom, I would directed him to leave the courted room with a sort of moody body language.
When Portia appears in the trial scenes she uses language differently. One of the languages that Portia uses is technical jangon, and when she appears as a man in the trail, she would act as a man in the trial scene and with a man tone of voices during the trail. And she would have to act during the trial scene.
At their end of the trial scene shylock receives judgement but he doesn’t receives justice because the outcome at the end was that shylock never got his pond of flesh justice because shylock never receives his pond of flesh from Antonio at their of the trial scene, so there was no qualities of mercy display in the trial scenes at the end, When shylock got his Judgement.
