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MERCHANT OF VENICE III, tension grews : The whole scene stretch out as…

- - - - the law is on the side of revenge
      - Antonio is portraying himself in a Christ-like figure sacrificing himself for others, imitazio cristi (the world is a stage)
        
        The duke says in a long speech that he is convinced that the jew will show mercy-> 1 attempt to appeal to shylock kindness and mercy because Antonio has been through a lot
        
        shylock answers with a long speech in wich he says his nituvatuibs are not having one-> irrationals and illogical almost animalistic (gives exemples with animals :rat::cat::pig:)
        
        antonio answers that arguing with shylock is useless, like talking to wind, trying to ask a :wolf: why he wants to eat the lamb
        
        Bassiano tries to win him with:moneybag:but Shylock doesn't care-> money are powerless
        
        2 SPEECH OF SHYLOCK
        
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        irrational hate
      - the whole act is about the possibility of mercy
    - - Bassanio begins to offer himself or the sake of Antoino and in doing that he begins to betray Portia
      - We get to know where this pound of flesh is being cut off by shylock himself. Shylock will also be the butcher.
        
        Antonio’s speech: beginning with give me your hand, don’t worry if I die for you (emotional blackmail), competition with Portia, if he dies for Bassiano he is going to win the competition with Portia
        
        Shylock is not allowed to shed a drop of blood or his lands and goods will be confiscated, and he will be sent to death
        
        In the space of a few lines shylock (come king Leere) from being the most powerful he has disintegrated into someone that lost his daughter, his goods and his right to live-> UNPREDICTIBILITY
        
        The duke is the first to practice mercy
        
        . Antonio’s mercy is very close to revenge
        
        Antonio is transforming the Jew into himself (act 1 the Jew is kind is turning Christian)
        
        To be merciful Antonio decided to give shylock’s money to Lorenzo :moneybag:
        
        conversion
        
        sign another bond by which he promises that when he dies everything will go to Lorenzo
        
        TEMPTATION SCENE
        
        Portia tempts Bassanio to give his :ring: to her
        
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- - - - We have Lorenzo and Jessica waiting for the others to arrive, the language is poetic and romantic.
        
        Lorenzo and Jessica are describing the night and then they come up with mythological stories( Greek mythology is full of violet story)
        
        Opposites with the language we are not aware of unless we know the Greek mythology story,
        
        the night is almost over, in between night and morning, the beginning of a new day (symbolic)
        
        description of the beauty of the night perfect for a couple clasches with the mythological reference dramatically because they arent what we would expect in a romantic situation
        
        :books:Troilus and Cressida
        
        female betrays male
        
        there is a vowel and a bond
        
        :books:Pyramus and Thisbe
        
        metamorphoses ovidio
        
        forbidden love (= JXL)
        
        pyramus commits suicide after he saw a :lion_face:with thisbe's cloth -> thisbe as soon as he saw pyramus was dead kills herself
        
        :books:Dido and Aeneas
        
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        each story is bloodier and more cruel than the preceding one
        
        sort of a competition on who comes up with more mythological references, they are unconsciously pushed to come up with love stories that end tragically
  - - - long description of the power of music delivered by lorenzo abt the effect of music on animal. the harmony of music is a mirror image of the harmony of the universe
    - - There is always an element of wisdom in the conversations between portia and nerissa
  - - - the :ring: plot begins to reemerge, we do not hear it or see it directly but we hear Gratiano and Narissa fighting over the ring
        
        SECOND TRIAL we are again at court, the husbands are the defendant and the woman are the persecutors. betrayal is the crime.
        
        The play continues to offer immagine of a fragmented male body (finger) cutt off from the entirety of the body, we are still talking about flesch there’s a subtone of violence that continues to emerge in the language and the immagine of the play.
        
        they admit they are guilt-> punishment which has a condition (to see the ring again)
        
        bassanio uncovers the competition between antonio and portia “if u had been there u would have done what antonio did”
        
        escalation of the punishment-> if the doctor comes into my house i’ll give him your bed and i’ll go with him. not only she is not going to have sex with him but also she is going to have sex with somebody else-> betrayal
        
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- - - - 2 different concepts of justice: temporal and godlike