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How does Shakespeare make Shylock a memorable character?

wiseowl0

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i want to look at the techniques he used and its impact on the audience. Cheers!

Posted by wiseowl0 on April 13, 2010 at 2:07 PM and tagged with charcters, merchant of venice, shylock, the merchant of venice

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I don't know if this counts as techniques or not, but I think there are two major ways in which Shylock is memorable.

First, I think he's memorable for modern audiences just because he's...

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Posted by pohnpei397 on April 13, 2010 at 2:22 PM

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In the play "The Merchant Of Venice" by William Shakespeare, the author presents us with a character that most of us usually remember for years afterwards. The question as to why Shylock is so...

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Posted by coachingcorner on April 13, 2010 at 10:20 PM

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Shylock a memorable character?  We find in the SIGNET edition William Hazlitt's 1818 comment "That he has but one idea[revenge] is not true; he has more ideas than any other person in the piece."  Hazlitt also refers to Shylock's "More than a lodged hate" from the court scene which corresponds to Romeo's "O, tell me, friar, tell me, / In what vile part of this anatomy / Doth my name lodge?  Tell me, that I may sack / The hateful  mansion"(ROM 3.3).  The above and other linguistic connections link Shylock and Romeo.  Egeus in MND and Capulet in ROM are also angry with their daughters.

Posted by muddy-mettled on April 19, 2010 at 12:14 AM

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