The Merchant of Venice (shakespeare's Classic Works Collection)
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"The Merchant of Venice" is Shakespeare's important early work and a highly satirical comedy. It was made around 1596-1597. The theme of the script is to praise benevolence, friendship and love. It also reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie and the loan sharks in the early stage of capitalism, and expresses the author's humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law and religion in bourgeois society. An important literary achievement of this play is to create the typical image of Shylock, a profit-seeking, ruthless loan shark.
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Character image. Shylock
Shylock is a typical loan shark vampire in the primitive accumulation period of capitalism. He is greedy, stingy, cruel, stubborn, and ruthless in nature. At the same time, he was also a Jew who was bullied in a Christian society. People not only hate Shylock for his cruelty, but also sympathize with the racial oppression and humiliation he suffered.
Wealth makes people have gray hair, and people who live in plain clothes and eat vegetarian food tend to live longer.
A stage of conflict between cruelty and kindness
Character image. Antonio
He is an emerging bourgeois businessman, and the author beautifies him. The author writes that he cherishes friendship and dies for his friends without any regrets; he is magnanimous and resigned to Shylock's shameless plot; facing the threat of death, he has the spirit of an ancient Roman hero who was not afraid of danger and regarded death as home.
Artistic features
1. There are many plot clues. The play is run through three clues. One is a contract dispute involving the "cutting of a pound of flesh" contract dispute in which Antonio, a Venetian merchant, borrows a thousand dollars from Shylock, a Jewish loan shark, in order to help Bassanio get married. This is also the main line. The other is Portia choosing a bride and Bassanio choosing a lead box. Married to Portia. The third article is about the love and elopement between Shylock's daughter Jessica and Antonio's friend Lorenzo. The three clues are light and heavy, just like Chinese splash-ink landscapes, light and heavy strokes are just right. This not only enriches the plot and makes it non-uniform, but also writes about various problems in bourgeois society from different angles. 2. The dramatic conflicts are intense. There is no drama without conflict. The conflicts in The Merchant of Venice can be roughly divided into four parts: occurrence, development, climax and ending. The focus of the plot conflict is the contract dispute surrounding the "pound of flesh", and the conflict over whether to "execute the punishment as agreed". The climax of the play is the words of Antonio, Bassanio, Portia, Shylock and others in the court. 3. The language has distinctive characteristics. Shakespeare's dramatic language is an ingenious combination of colorful and simple and natural, with both strong poetic flavor and smooth words.
It was translated by Zhu Shenghao. I read it in his love letters. He translated The Merchant of Venice into The Merchant of Vanness, which is very interesting. When he was seriously ill and about to die, he was still translating Shakespeare's works.
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Character image. Shylock
Shylock is a typical loan shark vampire in the primitive accumulation period of capitalism. He is greedy, stingy, cruel, stubborn, and ruthless in nature. At the same time, he was also a Jew who was bullied in a Christian society. People not only hate Shylock for his cruelty, but also sympathize with the racial oppression and humiliation he suffered.
Wealth makes people have gray hair, and people who live in plain clothes and eat vegetarian food tend to live longer.
A stage of conflict between cruelty and kindness
Character image. Antonio
He is an emerging bourgeois businessman, and the author beautifies him. The author writes that he cherishes friendship and dies for his friends without any regrets; he is magnanimous and resigned to Shylock's shameless plot; facing the threat of death, he has the spirit of an ancient Roman hero who was not afraid of danger and regarded death as home.
Artistic features
1. There are many plot clues. The play is run through three clues. One is a contract dispute involving the "cutting of a pound of flesh" contract dispute in which Antonio, a Venetian merchant, borrows a thousand dollars from Shylock, a Jewish loan shark, in order to help Bassanio get married. This is also the main line. The other is Portia choosing a bride and Bassanio choosing a lead box. Married to Portia. The third article is about the love and elopement between Shylock's daughter Jessica and Antonio's friend Lorenzo. The three clues are light and heavy, just like Chinese splash-ink landscapes, light and heavy strokes are just right. This not only enriches the plot and makes it non-uniform, but also writes about various problems in bourgeois society from different angles. 2. The dramatic conflicts are intense. There is no drama without conflict. The conflicts in The Merchant of Venice can be roughly divided into four parts: occurrence, development, climax and ending. The focus of the plot conflict is the contract dispute surrounding the "pound of flesh", and the conflict over whether to "execute the punishment as agreed". The climax of the play is the words of Antonio, Bassanio, Portia, Shylock and others in the court. 3. The language has distinctive characteristics. Shakespeare's dramatic language is an ingenious combination of colorful and simple and natural, with both strong poetic flavor and smooth words.
It was translated by Zhu Shenghao. I read it in his love letters. He translated The Merchant of Venice into The Merchant of Vanness, which is very interesting. When he was seriously ill and about to die, he was still translating Shakespeare's works.
