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The art of the Rhetorical Question

  1. A rhetorical question may have an obvious answer but the questioner asks rhetorical questions to lay value to the point.In english, a rhetorical question is easy to perceive and used for style as an impressive persuasive device.

  2. “If you prick us, do we not bleed?If you tickle us, do we not laugh?If you poison us, do we not die?And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”These rhetorical questions show that shylock is really angry with the words he is using words that seem violent.

  3. Hev talks about it in act 3 scene 1 when he said he will get Antonio’s heart and i think that is his revenge.

  4.  Shylock poses a lot of questions, but they are asked with purpose and intention. He begs to understand why he is treated so cruelly for being Jewish, because, as a Jew, he is still human. And as a human, we are all equal and we are all going to die and hurt alike 

 

summary of Act 3 Scene 1

The scene starts with solanio and salarino talking about rumours going all around Rialto about Antonio’s ship wrecked on the Goodwin sands,”Now,what news on the Rialto?” this is when solanio asked salarino if there is gossip in Rialto then salarino was telling him where the ships were wrecked and how dangerous the place is,also i think they do not believe that Antonio will have money  to pay Shylock .Shylock enters the room and solanio and salarino provoke him using Jessica’s letter.Shylock was taking about the bet him and Antonio made say there were bad thing coming. Shylock is talking about how the Christian treat the Jews in Venice and how the were disrespected and he said he will seek revenge on Christians.Shylock asks Tubal  if he has found his daughter but Tubal tells Shylock that Jessica has taken Shylock’s money and jewels when Shylock hears that he gets angry and wants Jessica dead for what she did to him,then Tubal reports to Shylock that Antonio has lost another ship at sea,hearing this Shylock tells Tubal to get an officer so that the officer can arrest Antonio.Then Shylock thought about the body part he will be taking from when he said “I will have the heart of him if he forfeit,for were he out of Venice i can make what merchandise i will.This shows that he wants to kill him for revenge for spiting on him also he wants to make his Jewish brothers proud by killing Antonio.Near the beginning of the play Shylock was starting to think they are making an secret plan against him.

Homework summary of act2 scene2

In this act lancerlot talkes about  how he wants to leave shylock because he doesn’t want to be a Jews and he is fighting his mind weather he should leave now are not.Then he sees his dad but cause  his dad is blind his dad called gobo doesn’t know his is talking to his son,so gobo asked his where shylock’s house then lancerlot plays a trick on his dad saying that he had died after that he said to gobo that he was his son but he did not believe him so he let gobo touch his hair.


 

Historical Context

Genre:what is a comedy play

Character:why were Jews treated bad

The Jews was treated bad because they had a different belief an example of this is when Antonio spat on Shylock at the beginning of the play which was terrible as Antonio ends up using him to get money for Bassanio.

The other reason Jews were treated bad in the merchant of Venice because at that time Jews were lower than Christians so Shakespeare add that in his play and this is called Historical Context.

The prince of morocco

 

I don’t think it should be band because some people like using it.I think before they band skin whitening cream they should band smoking. This does not present a positive view of dark skin he said do not like because of my dark skin this show that he was not proud of his colour.The prince is saying she is light and he is dark,he is trying to say that she is better than him.He thinks it is bad to be dark because all the time he downgrades being dark skin like when he said “Mislike me not for my complexion,the shadowed livery of the burnished sun


 


 

 

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