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MERCHENANT OF VENICE II - Coggle Diagram

- - - - jessica gives a ducat to lancelot so he can give lorenzo her :email:
    - - mixed marrige even if she will convert ,conversion is never completely believable there’s always a danger that your old self will reappear
  - - - they are very unprepared. The message is that males are again incapable of taking the situation into their own hands
    - - lorenzo is going to invite shylock to dine with bassiano bc they need to get shylock out of the house
  - - - :musical_note:
        
        characters who don't like music are always somehow evil, music in Shakespeare is a symbol of harmony, characters that don't like music are carriers of disharmony out of sink. He is against fun.
      - Jessica and Portia are in similar situations: portia’s father is a holy man, shylock is the devil but they are both patriarchal fathers
        
        Portia doesn't rebel or betray his father, she sticks to the rules although she is also a subversive female character.
        
        Jessica ibetrays his father, escaping his house, converting and stealing his money
        
        patriarchy in this play is not bad
      - this domestic sense of confinement is the most classic symbolic representation of patriarchal power
  - - - to greet Lorenzo, Jessica speaks in questions->element of doubt
  - - - Shakespeare takes a lot of line to linger upon the choice scenes, making a choice is never an easy process
    - - 1 giving a hazard with everything-> Antonio
        
        competition between Antonio and Portia abt who will give the most to Bassiano
    - - he takes the longest time to decide
  - - - The real action has taken place off stage
        
        when the scenes are emotion too charged to bring on stage so Shakespeare has minor character relating back to the audience what went on off stage
    - - shylock reaction at finding out jessica veloute and stole his money
        
        Money is morally neutral and symbolically hyper important, money means love.
      - Antonio and bassanio farewell
        
        rumors about antonio’s ship begin criculating.
      - Both shylock and Antonio are losing their most important person in their life.
- - - - salanio takes a long time to tell salario the bad news-> unspeakability of misfortune and the performativity of language
      - 1 PLOT TWIST
    - - paratactical language stile della bibia
      - antonio's section
        
        diadi
        
        2 synonyms and 2 opposits
      - rhetorical questions
        
        We are so hypnotized by the rhetorical questions that we dont realize when the real question arrives (shall we not revenge?)
        
        future che denota scelta
        
        the speech is organized to draw us to saying yes to his revenge
      - revenge
        
        revenge -> old testament
        
        mercy/ forgiveness -> new testament
        
        :woman::skin-tone-2:
        
        circularity of the speech: it begins with the word revenge and it ends with the same word-
      - he was the first one to establish the separation between jews and christians (scene 3 act 1)
        
        he doesn't even believe it himself on the equality of jew and christians but in order to elicit provoke our emotional empathy he begins to talk about equality
    - - SHYLOCK EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER:
        
        . Tubal brings news on Jessica's escape-> causes the great pain to shylock although the text seems to suggest that shylock is more worried about the loss of :moneybag: than the daughter
        
        antonio bankrupting ->makes shylock happy, he goes from one emotional extreme sense of despair to pleasure and the possibility of getting revenge at the possibility that antonio cant repay back and shylock has the power to get his pound of flesh.
        
        tubal says that jessica bought a :monkey: and gave in exchange a RING :ring:
        
        the ring motif will reappear and become the substitute of the caskets plot.
  - - - antonio loses everything as a punishments for his overconfidence
  - - - something that she didnt do with the others
      - She is trying to buy time because she doesn't want to lose him
      - she confess her love for him
        
        in Shakespeare women always confess their love first
      - puts music :musical_score:
        
        she uses the power of music to make him choose the right casket.
        
        recols element of harmony
        
        rame
    - - dicivios apperances
        
        he is the only one that follows the principle although he is a fortune seeker
      - He didn’t have to read the mottos, the others instead did.
        
        Morocco reads them twice, Aragon reads them once but both of them try to interpret the mottos
      - He opens the lead caskets and he finds Portia's potrait
        
        he will know if he won only until portia confirms its. he is entitle to marry her but he is asking her free will to marry her, he is giving back the freedom to reject or confirm
        
        plot twist portia is free to choose
    - - this test is about trust, if he loses the ring it means he doesn't love her and she can exclaim on him.
        
        similar to antonio and shylock's bond
      - closing lines of her speech introduce the possibility of betrayal
      - the ring is the symbol of femininity
    - - in shakespeare we have different couples that represent different social classes:
        
        Gratiano and Narissa belong to a lower social class; he didn't have to prove anything or go through any ordeal yet
      - all the 3 couples are formed, the love stories are exhausted.
        
        news from venice
        
        enter lorenzo, jessica and salerio
        
        intercourse between venice and belmont
        
        salario gives bassiano a :email:from antonio
        
        :woman::skin-tone-2:reads the reaction of bassiano reading the letter in his face->hint of inconstancy in bassiano
        
        portia’s second threat is antonio-> triangel
        
        bassanio tells the situation to portia, As soon as shylock is involved the words became about food and hunger
        
        2 more items...
        
        from this moment onward will have more than one character talking to portia about Antonio in terms that can only play on her jealousy
        
        1 more item...
        
        the :email:is another example of antonio's manipulative behaviour: He wants bassanio to see him dying for him, this would defeat portia in their competition
        
        ntonio has been blackmailing Bassiano since the beginning when he said he was sad but he didn’t know why
  - - - the stylistic rhetorical characteristic of shylock keeps popping up, his obsession with repeting himself and others-> easy english bc english isn't’ his first language
  - - - She is givesLorenzo the keys of Belmont and pretends she is going with Narissa to the monastery to pray and wait for his man but in reality she has already decided that she will go to the trail in Venice crossdressed as a man