Critical analysis

Characters

Setting

Language

Themes

Psychological

Physical

Critical Analysis

LANGUAGE + STYLE

Form : Prose/ Blank verse/ Rhyme ?

Style: Any devices => irony, metaphores, Construction

SETTING BACKGROUND

  • Venice vs Belmont
  • Elizabethan Background

CHARACTERS / THEMES

PERCEPTION OF :

1) Elizabethan Audience

2) A contemporary audience

3) Shakespear's view

Theme: Discrimination

Why ? Impact ?

Act 3 sc 1 L 1-46

LANGUAGE + STYLE

Form : Prose ( l. 2-7)

Style : Irony

CHARACTERS

Solanio ( minor charactor)

Shylock

Salerio ( minor character)

THEME

Perception of :

Revenge, justice and forginess

Why ? :

  • Salerio and Solanio are on the lower class of the merchant of Venice
  • Shylock is a rich person a educate one then he use the Blank verse to express himself. Shakespeare used the Blank verse to put a musical sound on the play with the stressed and unstressed rythme

SETTING BACKGROUND

Elizabethan Audience

Critical Analysis Act 3 sc 1 L1-46

Setting

1) Venice/ London --> heetic port/ business center

2) Age of discovery --> adventure at

Themes

1) Gender prejudice --> gossip (women)

Character

Antonio: good/ honest

Language

Form:

Prose ?

Blank verse ?

Rhyme ?

Revenge

Gender prejudice

The play start in Venice with Salanio and Salario, they have learned that the Italian ship wrecked in the English Channel was Antonio's. Shylock is angry, he declares his attention of taking a pound of Antonio's flesh if Antonio is unable to repay the loan.

Business, money, dark anbiance in Venice

The play take place in Venice especially in Rialto

Persuasion

shakespeare also use persuasion because Portia tries to persuade Shylock to take mercy on Antonio and take a different form of payment, but Shylock refuses.

Act 3 Sc 3 MoV

Language

Themes

Characters

Setting

Context

Remembering the many times Antonio condemned him as a dog, Shylock advises the merchant to beware of his bite. Assured that the duke will grant him justice, Shylock insists that he will have his bond and tells the jailer not to bother speaking to him of mercy.

In Venice

Form

Prose