Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice His nickname was Il Prete Rosso which means the Red Priest. He was a Venetian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous violinist. Antonio’s father Giovanni Battista was a barber before becoming a professional violinist. His father...
Antonio is the title character of the play. He appears to be a middle-aged bachelor and a businessman who is beloved by most of his acquaintance. He has been doing business in Venice and his financial interests are in overseas ships at the beginning of the play. Knowing his shipments are overseas...
explore how Shakespeare has expressed the feud between Shylock and Antonio in the Merchant of Venice. From the character list we can identify factors that will affect how the feud between Shylock and Antonio is portrayed as we learn that Antonio is of the Christian faith and Shylock is a Jew and at the time...
Friendship between Antonio and bassanio: The play I have studied is William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’. The relationship that I believe is most important is that between Antonio – the merchant of the title – and his dearest friend, Bassanio. I think that this relationship is characterised...
attitude towards cross dressing Portia ( Karn Newman) Discuss the relationship between Antonio and Shylock. (James Orrork) In William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, two of the main players, Antonio and Shylock, have an unexplainable hatred for one another. There are many speculations to...
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is very malicious. Although what Jessica did must be very stressful for Shylock to deal with, he still shouldn't have said that. Villain: When Antonio begs for his mercy, Shylock pays no attention, even when offered 20 times the sum of the loan. This states that Shylock wants revenge, no matter what...
Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 J.S. Bach 2. “Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah G.F. Handel 3. “Spring” from The Four Seasons Antonio Vivaldi 4. Canon Johann Pachelbel 5. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, first movement W.A. Mozart 6. Symphony No. 5, first movement Ludwig van...
The Merchants of Venice How does Shakespeare’s writing causes you to both admire and despise Antonio? Antonio, one of the prime characters in Shakespeare’s drama The Merchants of Venice is a complex character. Shakespeare portrays him to be generous and a wise successful...
scene i Antonio, a Venetian merchant, complains to his friends, Salerio and Solanio, that a sadness has overtaken him and dulled his faculties, although he is at a loss to explain why. Salerio and Solanio suggest that his sadness must be due to his commercial investments, for Antonio has dispatched...
Unit 1 B) Unit Work 1. According to Antonio, the world is but a stage and every person must play a part, with his being a sad one. These lines tell us that Antonio is deeply distressed and he claims he feels this way simply because he is meant to. Antonio is not actually sad about anything but he...
named Antonio, Shylock and Bassanio. The title character is the leading merchant Antonio who is a wealthy, respected, and popular man. During the play Antonio asks a Jewish money lender named Shylock to borrow money, Shylock agrees to give Antonio the money but he wants a bond saying that if Antonio doesn’t...
moneylender in Antonio’s name. The contract is for three times the value of the bond in three months or else Shylock cuts off a pound of flesh from Antonio. While all this is happening, there are love plots going on. One of which is for Shylock’s daughter to elope with Lorenzo, a Christian. Later on, Antonio’s...
Shylock - A Jewish moneylender in Venice. Angered by his mistreatment at the hands of Venice’s Christians, particularly Antonio, Shylock schemes to eke out his revenge by ruthlessly demanding as payment a pound of Antonio’s flesh. Although seen by the rest of the play’s characters as an inhuman monster...
Merchant of Venice - Antonio and Shylock Antonio's friend, needs money to pursue his love. They seek a loan from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender in Antonio's name. The contract is for three times the value of the bond in three months or else Shylock cuts off a pound of flesh from Antonio. While all this...
himself. Antonio is introduced to the audience first image of the play. Our first impression of Antonio is a self centered and melancholy person. The first line indicates that he is at a depression. He is possibly self absorbed, but yet he don’t understand why he is miserable. First, Antonio has plenty...
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during the middle ages. Antonio and Shylock revealed their similarities and differences through the virtues of loyalty, generosity, and courage. Antonio a Venetian maritime merchant showed to be a loyal friend to Bassanio by sealing such a bond for him. Even though Antonio had all his money invested...
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Antonio, a rich merchant of Venice, is sad in mind but cannot tell why. Three of his friends meet him and make fun of his mood in the hope that it will disappear, but Antonio remains strangely unhappy. One of his friends, Bassanio, is closer to him than the others, and when these two are left together...
our feelings about him and how we see him. Shylock displays his hatred for Antonio, his hatred is mainly because Antonio lends money without interest, and threatens the existence of his job as a moneylender. Also, Antonio is prejudiced against the Jews and often throws verbal and physical abuse at...
comes and rips out one of Tenorio’s eyes out and by the time everyone looks back up, Ultima has stepped through the door. And once everyone is gone Antonio notices that the two needles are on the floor. This raised my suspicions that Ultima was a witch. 2. This passage is significant because now Antonio’s...
she needs to save the friend, Antonio, of her love, Bassanio. As Antonio is a Christian, he is most definitely hated by Shylock. In the beginning of the play, Shylock and Antonio made a bond of money. On a certain date, with a certain amount, at a certain time, Antonio was supposed to pay Shylock back...
racialism of the era when the play was written. Main characters of the play are: * Antonio – a Venetian merchant * Bassanio – Antonio's friend, in love with Portia; suitor likewise to her * Lorenzo – friend of Antonio and Bassanio, in love with Jessica * Portia – a rich heiress * Balthazar –...
made money through interest. Although Shylock had been wronged by Antonio, he does not give forgiveness but makes certain he gets revenge. The first time we see Shylock is when he is approached by Bassanio and Antonio requesting that he lend them three thousand ducats. (Act I, scene iii,...
scene Shakespeare made sure that tension was present in the main character in the scene Shylock, this is because Shylock is felt to have power over Antonio since the pound of flesh is due. Shakespeare showed “the pound of flesh” as a symbol through the trial scene to escalate the climax and to captivate...
learn many things like how good always overcomes the evil, how herbs help you cure many things such as witchcraft, simple headaches, or sicknesses. Antonio had this love for Ultima that was unexplainable since the beginning of the book. He didn’t even know Ultima and when he first saw her instead of calling...
passengersAlonso, the King of Naples, his brothers Sebastian and Antonio, his son Ferdinand, and his advisor, Gonzalofrom running aground on the rocks. The boatswain reckons that even kings cannot "command these elements" of wind and water, and tells Antonio and Sebastian that they can either "keep below" or help...
enters disguised this way in order to defend Antonio when shylock refuses to show mercy. The law is on Shylock’s side and therefore shylock refuses to show mercy as he feels that succeeding in his bond will satisfy his long awaited revenge against Antonio. Portia’s speech begins after shylock asks what...
clear protagonist. Antonio is the merchant of the play’s title, but he plays a relatively passive role. The major struggles of the play are Bassanio’s quest to marry Portia and his attempt to free Antonio from Shylock, so Bassanio is the likeliest candidate. major conflict · Antonio defaults on a loan...
to borrow 3000 ducats from Antonio, but all of Antonio’s wealth is on the sea in his merchant ships, so Antonio suggests borrowing the money from Jew with Antonio’s name as guarantor. Bassanio visits Shylock and asks about the deal and Shylock questions why, because Antonio has mocked and insulted Shylock...
THEORY Montessori Theory Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle (Ancona), Italy, to Alessandro Montessori and Renilde Stoppani (niece of Antonio Stoppani). At the age of thirteen she attended an all-boy technical school in preparation for her dream of becoming an engineer. At the time, she insisted...
Manuel P. Berrizabal was born in San Antonio, Texas but he grew up in Independence, Missouri. His father came to the United States in 1910 from Durango, Mexico; his mother is of German descent. His parents only could support him with a little bit of money. Neither he’s mom nor dad went to college, he...
with intense prejudice. Antonio proves that he is unwilling to change his feelings toward Shylock when he says, "I'm likely to call you names again, spit on you again, and shun you again." They don't seem to realize that their prejudiced attitudes could get someone (Antonio) killed. There are different...
There is a battle between Christianity and Judaism within the play, and this is the underlying reason for which Antonio and Shylock despise one another. Money is a motif which interrelates with the religion motif. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. ...
However, at the time it was written, there can be no doubt that Shylock puts himself immediately on a bad foot with the audience. Furthermore, when Antonio asks, "Is your gold and silver ewes and rams?", Shylock replies "I make it breed as fast." By showing his proficiency as a banker, and his arrogance...
criticized him because he is a Jew. Again, this shows his ruthless, cold side; he has no remorse. Portia asks to have a surgeon by his side, just in case Antonio bleeds to death. Portia then reads the bond and discovers that Shylock is only allowed to take one pound of Antonio's flesh. She tells him that he...
SYNOPSIS: he play opens in Venice, where the merchant Antonio tells his friends, "I know not why I am so sad." His friends—Salerio and Salanio, and then Lorenzo and Gratiano—try to cheer him up, but with no success. Antonio’s close friend Bassanio informs him that he intends to seek an heiress’s...
the men and women merely players," this line is spoken by Antonio in an attempt to explain his recent melancholy to his friends. Gratiano has just opined that this sadness is linked to his worries about worldly possessions, a charge which Antonio (the Merchant in this play) vehemently denies. For his part...
himself. Antonio is introduced to the audience first image of the play. Our first impression of Antonio is a self centered and melancholy person. The first line indicates that he is at a depression. He is possibly self absorbed, but yet he don’t understand why he is miserable. First, Antonio has plenty...
they think is a quest.” The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.”(Thomas C.Foster) Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya is the story of Antonio Marez and begins when he is just six years old. In the opening of the novel, Ultima joins the family. Antonio’s quest is the coming of his age and...
to great lengths to humanize Shylock even while perpetuating the stereotype. , before Shylock ever says a word to Antonio, he lets the audience know in an aside that he hates Antonio. He hates him for having hindered him in business and for having humiliated him in public by spitting on him and calling...
on or the two that stand out are Bassanio and Antonio. Both Antonio and Bassanio have a deep and genuine friendship that extends to an honest representation of information that others may receive as a false idea. Specifically in Act I Scene 3, Antonio at first protests that he is not concerned about...
acts. Shylock can be seen as a victim because he was tormented and looked down on by his community. Antonio rejects shylock because he is a Jew but however shylock is still willing to lend Antonio the money...”why look you …this is kind I offer. This shows that shylock is a good person because he would...
THEORY Montessori Theory Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle (Ancona), Italy, to Alessandro Montessori and Renilde Stoppani (niece of Antonio Stoppani). At the age of thirteen she attended an all-boy technical school in preparation for her dream of becoming an engineer. At the time, she insisted...
Christians. Antonio also shows a similar attitude when proves that he is unwilling to change his feelings toward Shylock by saying, "I'm likely to call you names again, spit on you again, and shun you again." They don't seem to realize that their prejudiced attitudes could get someone (Antonio) killed....
a great amount of dramatic irony. Even though the audience knows that both these characters are actually Balthazaar and his apprentice, Bassanio, Antonio and Shylock don't. This creates a brilliant effect and also helps to build up tension. Portia may be worried that somebody may see through her disguise...
A storm strikes a ship carrying Alonso, Ferdinand, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Stephano, and Trinculo, who are on their way to Italy after coming from the wedding of Alonso’s daughter, Claribel, to the prince of Tunis in Africa. The royal party and the other mariners, with the exception of the unflappable...
section of this LitChart. Summary Analysis & Themes Alonso, Gonzalo, Antonio, and Sebastianenter. They are exhausted after having wandered the island in search of Ferdinand, whom Alonso sadly gives up for dead. Antonio and Sebastian secretly hope that Alonso's sadness and tiredness will give them...
THEORY Montessori Theory Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle (Ancona), Italy, to Alessandro Montessori and Renilde Stoppani (niece of Antonio Stoppani). At the age of thirteen she attended an all-boy technical school in preparation for her dream of becoming an engineer. At the time, she insisted...
book merchant of venice Shylock – In the novel Shylock is portrayed as a greedy Jewish Money lender. He is the father to Jessica and the enemy to Antonio. In act two it is clear that money is very important to Shylock. When Shylock hears about Jessica’s elopement it seems to be that Shylock is more interested...
hypocritical and cunning. He devices a trap to win over Antonio. D. He is a joykiller. He doesn't like and cannot bear entertainment. E. He is a miser, loves money even more than his life. F. He is murderous, insists on killing Antonio for envy. G. He is a small man intoxicated by success...
discover and form a clearer idea of his own principles which in the long run can help the person discover his true individuality. Confirming that Antonio has evaluated the religion of his mother, “A religion different from the religion of the Lunas” (Anaya 247) demonstrates the failure it had in fulfilling...
play San Antonio High in the championship game. It seemed like the whole state of Texas was at the game. The stadium was so loud that the players could not hear each other talk. The coin was flipped. San Antonio High was receiving the ball first. After a quick touchdown pass, San Antonio took a 7-0...
THEORY Montessori Theory Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle (Ancona), Italy, to Alessandro Montessori and Renilde Stoppani (niece of Antonio Stoppani). At the age of thirteen she attended an all-boy technical school in preparation for her dream of becoming an engineer. At the time, she insisted...
parents cooking breakfast. “Well,someones excited”, my dad laughed. “You bet! Were is the concert again”? I asked. “San Antonio”.“Oh great! That’s gonna take forever!” San Antonio is about 3 hours from were I live. I was NOT excited for the ride. But, it will be worth it definatly! After I ate breakfast...
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merry sport”. Antonio regards the ‘pound of flesh’ clause to be a show of friendship: ‘The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind’. Antonio receives the terms of the bond because he is confident he will be able to repay the bond. Shylock feels justified in exacting revenge upon Antonio. He i . ....
racism toward the Jewish people. When Antonio goes to ask Shylock to borrow money. Shylock says that Antonio once space on him and called him trashy names, and now he wanted to borrow his money. Shylock, rather than taking on what Antonio told him, he asked Antonio if he wanted to be friends rather...
were told one story about a guy named Antonio. He became really good friends with one of the people who came down from Iowa. Now even though there was the language barrier, Antonio and Gary became really good friends. Gary was an electrician and so was Antonio. Antonio worked for years around the hospital...