Monday, February 27, 2017
The Mercant of Vinance Part 5
This blog post will reflect the project I worked on for ELA. Last ELA class my group and I presented a movie we worked on. The movie was about what would happen if Shylock choose Merce instead of Justis. I believe our project was very good. We made all due dates except for one where there was some miscommunication but other than that we worked proactively together. Our final project, the movie, I felt was a complete success. That doesn't mean it was perfect but we accomplished the goal we set and had fun doing it. The thing that wasn’t perfect or we could of improved was the filming. We could have taken a little bit more time with the filming. I enjoyed making the alternate ending video of the book with my friends because it's fun. I got to learn about a book and get creative with it. I plan to do another creative response like this one later in my Post Oak experience.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
The Merchant of Venice Part 4
This week the prompt is to write about anything that interests you that you haven’t written about already. The theme I have decided for this week is how a modern audience would react to Shylock's punishment and if he deserves it.
I believe the modern day audience would see this punishment as too harsh for what Shylock did. The reason why Shylock was stopped was because of the Doctor A.K.A. Portia for finding a loophole. In our society and our modern day courtroom that loophole would cleared all charges against Antonio and nothing would of happen to Shylock except he didn't get a pound of flesh. The modern day audience sees Shylock's punishment as too harsh because there was an agreement between Shylock and Antonio and not just a verbal agreement but a written contract. What that shows me is Shylock did nothing wrong. He did what the contract said and when the Doctor pointed out the loophole telling him that he is not able to follow through with the contract he stop and didn’t break the rules. Even though Shylock stopped and didn't break the rules he was still punished which is why the modern day audience found Shylock to be unreasonable punished.
I believe the modern day audience would see this punishment as too harsh for what Shylock did. The reason why Shylock was stopped was because of the Doctor A.K.A. Portia for finding a loophole. In our society and our modern day courtroom that loophole would cleared all charges against Antonio and nothing would of happen to Shylock except he didn't get a pound of flesh. The modern day audience sees Shylock's punishment as too harsh because there was an agreement between Shylock and Antonio and not just a verbal agreement but a written contract. What that shows me is Shylock did nothing wrong. He did what the contract said and when the Doctor pointed out the loophole telling him that he is not able to follow through with the contract he stop and didn’t break the rules. Even though Shylock stopped and didn't break the rules he was still punished which is why the modern day audience found Shylock to be unreasonable punished.
Monday, February 13, 2017
The Merchant of Venice pert 3
Last class we finished the book and within act 4 Portia gives a speech about mercy and justice, I found this quite interesting so the prompt I choose this week is, Portia’s speech and explain what Portia is saying about justice and mercy, and why is this important in the play?
First off, we will start with what Portia was saying in her speech. “The Quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” That is the first part of her speech. The way I interpreted this part is mercy is from God and later on in her speech she mentions we pray for mercy giving me this idea that mercy is from God. Another though this speech provoked is there is not that much mercy in the world and when it is used it's in a manner of forgiveness and beauty.
Portia’s speech played a major role in this act, scene, and book. It gave everyone something to think about, not just Shylock and the other characters but the audience too. What this also did was give the characters more depth, not just black and white. Portia’s speech may not of changed Shylock's mind on justice or mercy but it made everyone think on which one should of been chosen, and that is why I believe this speech play a major role in The Merchant of Venice.
First off, we will start with what Portia was saying in her speech. “The Quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” That is the first part of her speech. The way I interpreted this part is mercy is from God and later on in her speech she mentions we pray for mercy giving me this idea that mercy is from God. Another though this speech provoked is there is not that much mercy in the world and when it is used it's in a manner of forgiveness and beauty.
Portia’s speech played a major role in this act, scene, and book. It gave everyone something to think about, not just Shylock and the other characters but the audience too. What this also did was give the characters more depth, not just black and white. Portia’s speech may not of changed Shylock's mind on justice or mercy but it made everyone think on which one should of been chosen, and that is why I believe this speech play a major role in The Merchant of Venice.
Friday, February 3, 2017
The Merchant of Venice part 2
The prompt I choose this week was, why did Shakespeare included Shylock's speech about
anti-Semitism, and how does it change the way we think of Shylock.
We don't know very much about Shakespeare much less so if we know if he was a anti-Semitism or not. So was I'm going to do instead is making an argument for both sides. First let's say William Shakespeare was in fact a anti-Semitism, at this time that would not be uncommon for a white Christian man to be one. What this implies is he was poking fun at Jews thinking it was funny to watch get mad. This is what I would assume how people would interpret this performance. On the other hand this scene could have been used for awareness and to bring attention to how they were wrongfully treating the Jews. This would be the mind set of Shakespeare if he disagrees with anti-Semitism. My view of Shylock is very different after this scene, what this scene did for me was humanize Shylock giving him more emotion and sympathy. We all see that he is angry and also sad. That it's just normal to make fun at someone because of their religion. The biggest thing I see is he loves his religion enough to stand up for it, making it an act of love.
anti-Semitism, and how does it change the way we think of Shylock.
We don't know very much about Shakespeare much less so if we know if he was a anti-Semitism or not. So was I'm going to do instead is making an argument for both sides. First let's say William Shakespeare was in fact a anti-Semitism, at this time that would not be uncommon for a white Christian man to be one. What this implies is he was poking fun at Jews thinking it was funny to watch get mad. This is what I would assume how people would interpret this performance. On the other hand this scene could have been used for awareness and to bring attention to how they were wrongfully treating the Jews. This would be the mind set of Shakespeare if he disagrees with anti-Semitism. My view of Shylock is very different after this scene, what this scene did for me was humanize Shylock giving him more emotion and sympathy. We all see that he is angry and also sad. That it's just normal to make fun at someone because of their religion. The biggest thing I see is he loves his religion enough to stand up for it, making it an act of love.