shylock's justification for revenge speech at Act III, scene 1 lines 52-72 fail to comply with erasmus' instru
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Shylock??? Wasn't he the one who demanded a pound of baloney from the owner of the Venice Delicatessen before he'd let him marry his sister?
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Well I honsetly think that you should read Romeo and Juilet. It is one of the best from Shakespear. I know that sometimes Shakespear is hard to read because it is in old english, but I have become good at deicphering Shakespear so...\n1. In act 3, the tension between the 2 familes comes to a climax. Romeo and Tybalt fight and Tybalt and Mercutio die. \n2. Romeo tires to ignore Tybalt because he doesnt want to be in trouble. Ironically, thats what happens. Also he doesnt want to disgrace Juliet. \n3. Romeo is angry about the fight because first, he killed Tyablt and he is banished from the city. That means he will never see his beloved Juliet again. \n4. The nurse is cruel to Juliet because she wants her to get over Romeo and his departure. The nurse always knew what would happen if Romeo and Juliet were to marry.\n5. Well the nurse and the friar arrange to have Romeo sneak into Juliets room for one last night together. \n6. Juliet believes that Romeo will die\n7. Lady Capulet says that she needs to continue to mourn her cousins death, although that is not what she is really mourning. Lady Capulet also thinks that Juliet needs to move on with life.\n8. Romeos departure\n9. I dont know that reason. \n10. Juliet is devistated and does not want to marry. She refuses to and her father disowns her. \n11. To go to Friar Lawernce and figure out a plan\n12. To drink potion that would make her sleep deelpy and long enough to convince people that she is dead. Once she is placed in the tomb, she will run to whereever Romeo is staying.
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Pretty much the quote states that even the more powerful people in the world make mistakes and aren't always correct in their ways of solving problems.  And that a truly good person would be able to see that they're way isn't the right way and will allow other solutions to the problem, as long as the problem gets resolved peacefully.  And that the worst thing a person can do is be too proud to take someone else's advice.  In Antigone, her father I believe (it's been a while since I read this) is so set in his ways and believing he's right, that he won't see things from Antigone's point of view.  Due to his pride, it results in his daughter's death (I'm pretty sure she dies in this), which is not an affective solution to the problem.  I'm sorry I can't remember quotes and things of that sort.  But I hope I put you on the right track!  Good luck!
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Only if he was a lawbreaker - it was considered the harshest sentence in the book. \n\nCheers!
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I'm not going to write one for you, but I will give you some help - you can take it or leave it.\nMost analyses of Hamlet point to Hamlet's inability to make up his mind as his tragic flaw - they would argue that Hamlet is responsible for his own fate by failing to kill Claudius in act III when he had the chance.\nOthers, however, myself included, believe Hamlet's flaw was his lust for revenge, and that is what led to so many deaths.  \nEither way, Claudius's guilt comes from the initial murder of Hamlet's father.\nI won't pretend to be a literary scholar.  But I am a high school senior who just finished an essay on Hamlet less than a month ago, so it's fresh in my mind.
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OMG my class read this play recently... crap lol. i totally forgot, and my teacher took up everyones notes to grade. they would have really helped. This play was a real pain in the rear.  Although i do remember that Brutus was well respected in the Roman community, but he does wrong things, but for the right reason, of course (like the death of caesar). he thought that caesar was a threat to rome.
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Pip is guilty and ashamed, as one can see from this quote.  Don't forget to provide the link if you quote it!\n\n"Pip gives Joe the final rejection when he refuses to allow Joe to accompany him to the coach for London on the day that he leaves: "I had told Joe that I wished to walk away all alone. I am afraid--sore afraid--that this purpose originated in my sense of the contrast there would be between me and Joe, if we went to the coach together" (159; ch.19). Clearly, Pip wants to leave his provincial life behind him and step into the world of property and society; he does this by literally leaving his town and ultimately rejecting Joe, who represents Pip's roots."
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Magwitch is a convict who escapes from a prison ship (hulk) near the marshes where Pip lives. They come across each other at a nearby cemetery, and Magwitch threatens Pip to get him food and a file so he can break off his handcuffs(but all this must be done in secret so not to reveal where Magwitch has escpaed to). When Pip returns with Magwitch has asked for, it touches him. A few days pass and guards from the hulks come to Pip's uncle, Joe the blacksmith, to fix some of their handcuffs so  they can capture some escaped convicts. Joe asks the guards if they would mind if him and Pip went with them to see (he thinks it is a treat for Pip. Though secretly Pip is terrified that they will find out that he helped Magwitch, but he goes along regardless). They find and arrest the convict, who Pip's suprise, does not reveal how he got the file and food. Years pass, and Pip grows up wealthy because of an secret benefactor who pays for him becoming a gentleman. On his 21st birthday, Pip is astonished to find out that his benefactor is indeed the convict on marshes so long ago (he had thought it was a wealthy lady named miss havisham who always acted as though she was his benefactor). With help from his friend Herbert, Pip sucessfully hides the convict (if discovered death by hanging would be the punishment). Pip later however learns that the conman(Compeysenson) who got Magwitch arrested in the first place, is in London looking for him. Magwitch still remains sucessfully hidden and Pip decides that it is best that Magwitch be taken out of the country (first by rowboat, then he would be smuggled into a bigger ship). They do this and everything goes well, but just as Magwitch is about to get on the bigger ship, Compeysen shows up in with the police in a rowboat and points him out. They bring magwitch back to their boat to arrest them, but once they get there Magwitch pushes Compeysen under the water and the two wrestle. Magwitch is the only one to return from beneath the surface, and is taken away to a prison where he spends the rest of his life. Pip vists him everyday and tells him about his daughter, Estella (who was beleieved to be dead because of her violent mother (magwitch's ex-wife)) is actually alive and living with the wealthy Miss Havisham. Magwitch does not live much more after this and dies due to illness.\n\n*Hope this helped!*
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Juliet's long soliloquy before she drinks the potion focuses on her fears.  She at first calls the nurse, then changes her mind, realizing that she must act alone.  At first she fears that the potion won't work at all and lays a dagger beside her in case it doesn't.  She then fears that Friar Laurence may have lied, and really plans to kill her in order to avoid being punished for performing their marriage. \n\nAfter deciding that the Friar is honest and trustworthy, Juliet fears that she will wake up before Romeo arrives.  This prospect frightens her the most.  She fears strangling to death for lack of air, and then thinks about being in the vault with the bones of her ancestors, including Tybalt's recently dead body.  In horrible images, she imagines herself playing with the bones of her dead relatives and even smashing her own brains out with one of the bones.  As she imagines Tybalt's ghost seeking out Romeo, his murderer, she drinks the potion as a toast to Romeo.\n\nEven though Juliet's worst fear is that she will wake up too soon, it is ironic that this is the one thing that could have saved both their lives.\n\nJuliet is tragically alone in this scene, expressing her deepest fears in total isolation.  She shows her bravery as proof of her intense love for Romeo. In fact, it is her love for him which allows her to overcome her worst fears.
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i don't remember EXACTLY, but he tells them something about land ownership that proves someone else's innocence...i think something having to do with thomas putnam.  he says that "someone" told him that putnam owned something or did something land related, and was "killing his neighbors for their land" by accusing them of witchcraft, but that he can't tell them who told him.  since the source is quite important, they put him on trial to try and force him to tell them, but he won't, so they stone him in contempt of court.
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Well, my friend did a paper about this actually and bent my ear about it. Basically what she said was Shakespear only had one Jew in his plays, and that was Shylock from the Merchant of Venice. and the answer she came up with was, maybe. there is not enough evidence to say one way or another if he was racist.
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i believe you are missing a couple of words in the phrase\nvirtus junxit inseparabit.\n\ni think it should be virtus junxit mors non seperabit. this means \n'What Virtue Has Joined Together Death Shall Not Separate'.
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Juliet's attitude toward Paris is not a friendly one. The quote you've mentioned shows that she does not approve of him thinking of her as his lady or his wife because she is not (yet) married to him despite her father's promises and arrangements made. Probably she does not outright hate him but feels a resentment that he would simply assume her to be overjoyed at the arrangement of marriage she had no part in making.
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Similarities:\n\nBrutus's purpose was to control the crowd as was Anthony's. Brutus began his speach with a hostile crowd against him as a murderer of the popular Julius Caesar.  When Anthony spoke the crowd had already been swayed by Brutus' words to a point of view opposite Anthony's and were now openly hostile to him.  Both men spoke eloquently and effectively and their moment before the crowd was the key moment in their political lives.\n\nDifferences:\n\nBrutus spoke first, Anthony had the last word.  Brutus spoke directly in abstract terms about an unproven and unprovable shortcoming in Caesar's character and the threat it posed to the future of Rome.  Anthony spoke ironically and sarcastically about the recent murder of the butchered man lain out before them:  as concrete a subject matter imaginable.  \n\nBrutus, as one of the senate assassins, had a lot more to lose: his reputation and life.  Anthony had a lot less personally at stake.   Brutus concentrated on one theme and directly spoke it:  "Caesar was ambitious" and somehow that ambition was bad for Rome.  By stopping over-ambitious Caesar, the assassins carried out a great and noble service for Rome and the people at the funeral.  Anthony facing a hostile crowd that now considered Caesar the great tyrant as propagandized by Brutus had to pick his words carefully and hide his true purpose.  "I've come to bury Caesar not to praise him."\n\nUltimately both men swayed the crowd but Anthony's speech carried the day.  When he was done, no one could 'unsway' them from their hate for the assassin's rekindled inside them by Anthony's speech.  Brutus lost because he had only the crowd's imagination to work with.  Anthony won because logic and pathos and ethos and the 'eloquence' of dead Caesar's wounds were all on his side.
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This was one of the pieces of "advice" Polonius gave to his son Laertes in Hamlet. The irony, of course, was that none of the advice was heeded by Polonius himself.
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Machievelli made that quote famous. People would like to think that it does, thus when Robin Hood robbed to give to the poor, his actions justified itself because of the good it did, especially considering that he was robbing from the rich, and the Sherrif of Nottingham's riches were ill-gotten anyhow.\n\nWe can conider another case. Say there is a person who is terminally ill and only has a month to live, and there are 6 people who need urgent organ transplants. Is it justified to kill the terminally ill man without his consent in order to harvest his organs to save the 6 people? Most would argue that it wouldn't.\n\nI think it is very tempting to argue that the ends do justify the means, but it is a very dangerous philosophy to follow, and it is best to live in accordance with the law.
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I can list em all in front of you.  I don't have Act 4 down memorized so I can't help you there.  But here goes.\n\n1-1: Prince is angered at 3 civil brawls.  We learn about Romro's heartache at the beautiful Rosaline.\n1-2: Romeo discovers Rosaline is attending Capulet's ball and decides to come.  We also learn about Paris's plan to marry Juliet.\n1-3: Lady Capulet explains to Juliet that Paris seeks her as his bride.  She attends the ball to see Paris and judge him.\n1-4: Romeo says he has a dream that with the celebrations, something will make him have an early death.\n1-5: Romeo meets Juliet.\n\n\n2-1: Mercutio ridicules Romeo.\n2-2: Romeo and Juliet plan to get married, so Juliet arranges to send the Nurse to ask Romeo of his plan.\n2-3: Romeo tells Friar Lawrence his plan, and the Friar agrees to wed them to hopefully end the brawling.\n2-4: The Nurse reaches Romeo and he says that they will be wed at Friar Lawrences's cell.\n2-5: Forgotten.  I apologize.\n2-6: Romeo and Juliet are married.\n\n3-1: Mercutio and Tybalt die.  Romeo is banished.\n3-2: Forgotten.\n3-3: Romeo arranges to go to Juliet's room for one last time together before he flees Verona.\n3-4: Paris is to be wed to Juliet on Thursday.\n3-5: Romeo and Juliet see each other for the last time.  Her parents are disgraced that she doesn't want to be wed to Paris, and she will be disowned.\n\nAct 4-all blank.  I do remember that in 4-1: Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion that will make her seem dead, but she will be in a deep sleep and Romeo will fetch her.\n\n5-1: Romeo learns that Juliet is supposedly "dead" and purchases poison from an apothecary to kill himself.\n5-2: Friar John tells Friar Lawrence that he couldn't tell Romeo that Juliet isn't really dead.  Romeo thinks Juliet is dead, but she isn't.\n5-3: Romeo kills Paris, Romeo kills himself, Juliet kills herself, the Prince makes some speech and it's the end. \n\nHope this helps trememdously.  I hope I get 10 points, because this took a lot of time o type.