Notes KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING The play‚ as the title suggests‚ is set in Italy. Venice‚ in the popular imagination of Elizabethan society‚ was a place of fabulous wealth‚ royal merchants‚ richly attired gentlemen‚ and refined culture. Antonio is very much a part of this society. But this is not the only part of the Venetian picture that is portrayed in the play; another less romantic view is also given. It is the cruel commercial and legal side of Venice‚ where ships are sunk at sea‚ fortunes
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What will Antonio become when he grows up? A priest? A vaquero? A curandero? A farmer? Antonio’s future is not clear because‚ at the end of the novel‚ he has finally decided to choose his own path. Instead of listening to the beliefs of his mother or the desires of his father‚ he will fulfill Ultima’s encouragement to follow his heart. With this in mind‚ it seems likely that Antonio will probably become a man of learning according to Ultima‚ Whether or not this means that Antonio will become a priest
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1875/1975. The Origins of the Family‚ Private Property‚ and the State. Pp. 129–276 in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels‚ Collected Works‚ vol. 26. London: Lawrence and Wishart. Foucault‚ M. 1980a. The History of Sexuality‚ vol. 1. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Gramsci‚ A. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. London: Lawrence and Wishart. Hintze‚ O. 1975. The Historical Essays of Otto Hintze. New York: Oxford University Press. Jenson‚ J. 1986. Gender and reproduction: or‚ babies and state. Studies in Political
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The Tempest (1510–1) takes the form of a “revenge tragedy averted‚” beginning with the revenge plot but ending happily. Merchant of Venice might be described as a revenge tragedy barely averted‚ as Portia swoops into the courtroom scene and saves Antonio from Shylock. Perhaps the most important related work for Merchant of Venice‚ however‚ is Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (1589-90)‚ which tells the story of the moneylender‚ Barabas‚ who has all his wealth seized by the Maltese government
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Void upon my bread This speech by Shylock evokes the social world in which he lives. For‚ as a Jew‚ Shylock rails in magnified language against Antonio‚ a Venetian who has castigated Shylock for his usury. Also‚ within the setting of this play‚ the Venetians limited Jewish merchants and moneylenders/pawnbrokers‚ making them live in "geti" (plural of "geto"). The guttural pronunciation of this word made it sound like ghetto‚ a word still used today to mark emargination. So‚ Shylock is perceived
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Thieves follows Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) as he struggles to provide for his wife Maria (Lianella Carell) and his son Bruno (Enzo Staiola). Antonio gets a job‚ but needs a bicycle in order to fulfill his employment responsibilities. Maria pawns her beautiful bed sheets in order to purchase a bicycle. Antonio’s bike gets stolen on his first day of work. The police do not offer Antonio much help‚ but tell him that he should check at the Piazza Vittorio market. Antonio and Bruno find the
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transform from a little‚ young child to a big‚ grown adult? What problems do we face? Who helps us decide our future? In Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya‚ Antonio Márez must forward on the way to his own moral self-sufficiency. Antonio is put into the center of many distressing events which cause him to grow up faster‚ and lose his innocence. Antonio has many questions about spirits‚ god and beliefs. To get his answers‚ he must undergo a transformation. To attain maturity‚ you must have a loss of innocence
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to create a book with an opening eye moral. “Bless me‚ Ultima” did not just illustrate the life of Antonio‚ but also the battles that he had to face to become the person who he was at the end. By showing the struggles of Antonio’s day to day life Anaya gave the readers the experience of battling between the dreams of the adults and the children. This was mostly illustrated in the tussle that Antonio faced because of the pre-made future plans of his parents. His mother dreamed of him being a priest
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their characteristic is and also how they are viewed by society that can change their characteristics‚ therefore changing how they would give their mercy. The close friendship between Antonio and Bassanio is viewed the opposite of how all Christians view Shylock as a Jew and how they treat Shylock compared to Antonio and Bassanio. Since Venice is full of Christians‚ they are viewed totally opposite. Shylock who has been mocked‚ insulted and more is suffering from the despises that he gain from just
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murder rates between San Antonio‚ TX and San Diego‚ CA. Both have over one million people; however the comparison between the two cities is quite different. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report‚ in 2007‚ San Antonio had 122 murders versus San Diego’s 59 murders‚ a difference of 63 murders. In 2006‚ San Antonio had 119 murders in comparison to San Diego’s 68 murders‚ a difference of 51 murders. In 2005‚ the murder rates between the two cities were very different. San Antonio had 86 murders and
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