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Human Experiences (Humans are always trying to create meaning, Universal…
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The Merchant of Venice
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People are not born, they are constructed
Gender in the context of multiple cultural variables: Complexity of identity coordinates - sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, national location
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Begins by defending stereotype of the 'other', but ends up fulfilling it
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About universality: The concept of universal humanity embodied in tragic pity assumes that convincing depth of character and stereotyping are mutually exclusive
Tragedies and comedies -- comedies lack compassion, complexity of language and depth of characterisation whereas tragedies endow the characters to these attributes
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Venality (quality of being open to bribery): Antonio and Bassanio's contact with Portia has emasculated them. Even Bassanio, who wins this "golden fleece," finds himself disempowered by his success, not unlike his symbolic forerunner, Jason.
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Money vs. love - to obtain one, must sacrifice the other?
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milk and honey
Fathers and daughters
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'he was supposed to be your first male love of your life / you still search for him everywhere' - absent father and effect on romantic relationships
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Same gender, weariness as mother / same firey rage as her father
Powerful women
'to be soft is to be powerful / you deserve to be completely found in your surroundings not lost within them'
'you tell me I am not like most girls... something about how I have to be unlike the women i call sisters in order to be wanted makes me want to spit your tongue out / like i am supposed to be proud you picked me / as if I should be relieved you think I am better than them'
'I do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me / I want to be full on my own / I want to be so complete I could light a whole city / and then I want to have you because the two of us combined could set it on fire
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Selfish people and gambling - 'they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own.' (selfish)
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Balance - 'I thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving'
Happiness - 'I have what I have and I am happy / I've lost what I've lost and im still happy (M.O.V is the opposite?)
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Beauty
'I like the way the stretch marks on my thighs look human and that we're so soft yet rough and jungle wild when we need to be ... '
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'my issue with what they consider beautiful is their concept of beauty centres around excluding people / I find hair beautiful when a woman wears it like a garden on her skin ...' -- about women of colour and criticism of a single perception of beauty
Natural beauty of just being human - 'my favourite thing about you is your smell / you smell like earth herbs gardens / a little more human than the rest of us'