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1. Introduction to Merchant of Venice

4. Theme Merchant of Venice

5. ‘ The Merchant of Venice’ Themes in the Play

10. Shylock Duke (vengeful) (merciful) Create a chance to kill Antonio. He used the chance. Has a chance to punish Shylock. He forgave him. Mercy VS revenge

11. It happens everywhere around the world: two young people love each other, but when the boy is poor or doesn't have a good job, often the parents of the girl don’t allow them to get married.

12. VS Love VS Money

13. Characters Merchant of Venice

14. Characters and their Contributions

20. Shylock Bassanio Po r tia Antonio

21. Shylock a cruel businessman lends Antonio 3000 ducats. Portia a rich and beautiful woman to marry Bassanio, also acts as the lawyer. Antonio A kind merchant of Venice borrows 3000 ducats from Shylock for Bassanio . Bassanio Antonio’s best friend gets married with Portia with the money borrowed from Shylock. The duke President of Venice head of the court.

22. Antonio is a rich businessman of the city of Venice. Everyone likes him because he is always ready to help others. At the time of this story his ships are all at sea to trade with foreign countries. Bassanio , Antonio’s best friends, is in love with Portia. Portia is a rich and beautiful lady. She loves Bassanio but they cannot get married because he is too poor. Then Bassanio asks Antonio to lend him three thousand ducats.

23. Being short of money just then Antonio goes to Shylock to borrow the money, Shylock has always hated Antonio, because Antonio has often in public shown how cruel and terrible Shylock is . Shylock agrees to lend Antonio the money, but Antonio must promise to allow Shylock to take a pound of flesh from any part of his body if he cannot pay the money back after three months . Antonio agrees to this, takes the money and gives it to Bassanio.

24. On the day Bassanio and Portia get married, they receive a letter from Antonio saying that all his ships have been lost at sea. Now he himself does not have enough money to pay back the three thousand ducats and so he must give Shylock one pound of his flesh. Portia thinks of a clever plan to save Antonio. she asks a good friend who is a doctor of law, to lend her some of his lawyer’s clothes and books. Dressed as a lawyer, she arrives at the court of the Duke, where Antonio case is decided.

25. As the Duke is wondering what to do, Portia gives him a letter from the famous lawyer whom she has visited. In the letter it says that Portia is a learned young doctor from Rome who is young but very wise. The Duke accepts Portia to take the place of the famous lawyer and handle this difficult case.