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MERCER OF VENICE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - populated by the most rich people, male centered world, public dangerous space
        
        ANTONIO :man::skin-tone-2:
        
        bassiano :man::skin-tone-4: is full of depts-> decided to merry :woman::skin-tone-2:-> he asks :man::skin-tone-2: :moneybag: in order to go to belmont
        
        :man::skin-tone-2: :<3::man::skin-tone-4: -> he accepts but he doesn't have casch-> they ask shylock the money lander
        
        shylocks says yes even if Antonio treated him badly + he didn’t want entrance back but 1 pound of his :meat_on_bone:
        
        :man::skin-tone-2:has lost all his :boat:-> can't pay shylock back-> shylock fairly owns to have his pounds of flesch
    - - :woman::skin-tone-2:
        
        :man-girl::skull: in order to protect :woman::skin-tone-2: and her :moneybag:he invented an ordeal: 3 caskets. the one that finds porzia's :frame_with_picture: has to marry her
        
        motif in Shakespeare is the conflict between father and daughter
        
        violenti, they want to exert their patriarchal power
        
        prince of marocco and aragona, Bassiano :man::skin-tone-4:choses the right caskets-> :bride_with_veil::skin-tone-2:
        
        happy ending
  - - - :woman: and shylock (forced)
        
        shylock loses the trial and the judge will make antonio decide his punishment and :man::skin-tone-2: choses shylock’s conversion (e perdita dei beni) -> 2 BOND shylock will have to sign
      - The plasuggest that conversion can never be complete, risk of going back.
- - - - he doesnt know why he is sad
        
        We get to understand that sadness is not an ontological condition for him.
    - - they try to come up with explanations in order to help him understand his sadness
        
        :moneybag:
        salarino: Antonio’s mind is busy thinking abt his :boat:
        
        argosies Raguse :boat: makes us understand how rich Antonio is
        
        they give examples, represent and expand the stress that it is being a businessman
        
        :man::skin-tone-2: says that he is a good businessman bc he didn’t put all his money on one :boat:
        
        overconfident
        
        :<3:
        
        Salnio lose his temper 2 extremes in stark opposition one to the other: one laugh at everything and the other that never does (Antonio and bassanio)
        
        Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
    - - :man::skin-tone-5: :speaking_head_in_silhouette:
        
        plays the fool: character who is allowed to speak the unpleasant truth
        
        gives voice and represents the more physical, row, materialistic part of human nature- most antisemitic voice
        
        there are men that are expressionless because they want to come across as wise but as soon as they speak they are boring
        
        CLASH BETWEEN APPEARANCES AND REALITY
    - - :man::skin-tone-2:asks bassiano abt his lady
        
        :man::skin-tone-4:doesn’t answers but explains he is poor,He spends more than he has. His goal is to repay his debts and in order to do so he decided to marry :woman::skin-tone-2:
        
        in order to ask for :moneybag::man::skin-tone-4:began his speech with an image of his childhood :baby: (symbol of innocence and seductive)+ :cupid:
        
        :man::skin-tone-2: has no cash so :man::skin-tone-4:will use his name to borrow money
        
        first thing he mentions abt :woman::skin-tone-2:is that she is rich, The play cannot move away from the idea of money being linked to love
        
        LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT
        
        Portia is a metaphorical allusion, personification of :crown: Elisabeth. She is an object for male competition
        
        “Pilgrimage” —> language of religion
        
        greek mythology
        
        :man::skin-tone-4: uses mythological figures
        
        a sign of danger. Myths are usually violent. Usually there’s a QUEST, which implies a journey, the hero is trying to obtain an object of value and a consequential return back home after the object sought for is obtained.
      - A frequent word is “fortune”, “fortunate” :four_leaf_clover:> theme of CHANCE, FAITH
  - - - :man::skin-tone-2:and :woman::skin-tone-2:have some things in common , depression and unsatisfaction
      - NERISSA is the voice of wisdom, rational voice, good sense in the play, she is the counterpart of salario e salanino in the 1 act, trying to find out the reason of sadness
        
        those who have too much are just as sad as those who have too little
        
        execess are bad
        
        defends the father and the patriarchal culture :man-girl: bc he was a holyn man,inevitably the suitor that choose right will be the one she will love
      - :woman::skin-tone-2: describes all the flaws of the suitors> INADEQUACY OF MANLINESS
        
        What they say about :man::skin-tone-4: clashes with the description that he gave of himself
  - - - word “bound”/“bond” > a legal term for contract and a bond between two people. Antonio and Bassanio will be bound
        
        “Antonio is a good man”
        
        By good shylock means > the gap that exists between the 2 cultures, connected on to money
        
        :man::skin-tone-4:and Shylock misunderstand each other on this very fundamental word, these highlights the difference between their 2 cultures
        
        Shylock shows his awareness of Antonio’s possessions’ uncertain state
        
        Shylock rejects Bassanio’s invite to dinner. Shylock is obsessed with the metaphors on eating, food, starvation, wanting to feed…
        
        eat , drink and play –> evocative of the Christian mess, incamerare corpo di cristo, HOLY COMMUNION
        
        In soliloquies the character is speaking to them-self
        
        they hate each other for their religion but also for their way of handling money
        
        shylock makes reference to the old testament and the story of jacob to explain to antonio that lending money on interest is permitted and allowed by the testamen (teological jusitifcation)
        
        :man::skin-tone-2:refers to shylock as the devil
        
        1 more item...
        
        in the new testament (tentazione di cristo nel deserto) christ is tented 3 times by satan and they have a theological debate by quoting the Bible
        
        Antonio and shylock are alter-egos, specular images of each other - that’s why they are bound
        
        The bond between shylock and antonio is based on hate, on this disturbing element of two opposites who are at the same time two doubles
        
        perverse version of traditional marriage
- - - - circular
  - - - figlia che scappa perche non puo sposare l’uomo che ama e sfida l’autorità patriarcale, legame padre e figlia che deve rompersi traumaticamente affinché un’altro legame si crea. sacrifice that needs to be make in order to create a new bond. for something new to come along something old must die painfully.
  - - - morocco’s opening line : he tells Portia not to judge or dislike him by his appearances.
      - morocco's speach
        
        theme of male enemies' desire to cut each other's flash off and see the blood is immediately proposed again in Belmont this time
        
        hyper masculinity males are afraid of him, on the other hand lady fell in love with him
        
        parody of male heroism: Morocco shows off al the greatest things he has done but then ends up losing in front of the casqets
        
        male are always inferior only shylock is at portia's level
      - scene 3 act 1
    - - if the suitors make the wrong choice they won't be able to marry her or anyone else
        
        portia’s father is a sort of hyper patriarch defending as much as he can the female principal from unworthy males
        
        male who fail become outsiders
    - - free will
  - - - the process of choosing is rappresented as this struggle between one part of the self and the other (l’IO scisso)
        
        split into the fia (devil) and the conscious
        
        theme of opposites
      - he needs to decide between staying with shylock (the devil) or betray him leave and change
        
        this is the first betrayal that shylock has to pay. lancelot is the prefiguration of shylock’s daughter jesscia. the first to leave shylock's house.
        
        lancelot is functional bc in Shakespeare the same situations always happen twice: the first always on a minor key and then it happens again with huge consequences
    - - Lancelot makes fun of his fathet:bitten comedy
        
        Lancelot becomes Bassanio's servant
    - - Bassiano warns Gratiano to behave. Heasks hik to preted to be something he isnt .-> theme of appearances and reality
        
        theme of performing
- - - - named after the name of the protagonist: a single male belonging to the highest level of society :crown:
    - - mistake
        
        the fall (means also the collapse of the entire comunity)
  - - - multiple charahters equally important, lower social class wealthy but not in charge, politically less relevant
    - - In order to succeed :woman::skin-tone-2: have to become male (crossdressing)
      - The presence of evil is very powerful in comedies too, it doesn’t infect the protagonists but it’s there
  - - - deals with :flag-gb: history: the civil war (the war of roses :rose:)
        
        After Richard 3 the throne goes to the Tudor.