Merchant of Venice

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  1. Okay. Hello.
  2. My name is Spagna.
  3. Mac and I did my presentation on The Merchant of
  4. Venice. We'll start first with our plot.
  5. Um, this actually was really hard.
  6. I understand watching it, but it is a dark humor
  7. about money, love and of course, lying in my description,
  8. I have literally the smallest synopsis of the story that
  9. you could possibly get Mhm.
  10. Our main characters are Shylock Bas, I know and Porsche.
  11. We see them frequently throughout the story, and we don't
  12. understand why until close to like the middle slash in
  13. what their point is.
  14. Behind it.
  15. Um, one of the main events throughout this story is
  16. by Sano convinces his friend to take alone and by
  17. taking that loan so he can convince Portia that he's
  18. wealthy when he is, in fact not.
  19. But what he doesn't know is that her father has
  20. created a sort of game that people have to play
  21. in order to win her hand in marriage.
  22. Insert quotes.
  23. There's three boxes, one made of gold, one made of
  24. silver and one made of lead.
  25. She's had multiple people come to her to try, and
  26. when her hand in marriage extremely uninterested in preferring to
  27. be alone until she meets Bison New.
  28. They fall in love.
  29. She gives him a hint toe open the box, and
  30. he obviously wants her hand in marriage at this time.
  31. She gives him a ring and tells him to never
  32. lose it.
  33. Never give it to anybody like he has to keep
  34. it forever.
  35. The outcome amongst a lot of other things that happened
  36. in this story with the debt or the loan that
  37. was taken is the debt that comes due to the
  38. loan that Bassano convinced his friend to take without interest.
  39. His payment was a pound of flesh.
  40. Will shy.
  41. Log was upset because at the time his daughter had
  42. just robbed him and took off with some man.
  43. So he was bitter and, oddly enough, looking for his
  44. pound of flesh in like revenge.
  45. Um, Porsche and Jessica dress up as doctors and show
  46. up to the courthouse, convinced Shylock not to take his
  47. pound of flesh.
  48. And after everything is said and done, they talk to
  49. the men and, like you should give me your ring
  50. as payment for what I've done to help you.
  51. And the guy goes well, what about some money and
  52. they're like, No, we want the rings So they give
  53. the rings up, but they don't tell their wives up
  54. front. Okay, this is a short clip on them.
  55. In my eyes.
  56. It would be pulling a prank on their husbands.
  57. Yeah, our first critic is Grace Tiffany.
  58. She's actually a doctor, like she has her doctor it
  59. and she did.
  60. A critic called Law and Self Interest in The Merchant
  61. of Venice.
  62. She noted how this particular play was different from his
  63. other ones.
  64. She mentions how in taming of the Shrew and a
  65. few others where love severely overpowered or nullified law, However,
  66. in this one they were very strict about law.
  67. They enforced law.
  68. They talked about it in every aspect you could think
  69. about. Um, Shylock would sue people immediately if they defaulted
  70. on their loans or didn't pay the day it was
  71. do like this was seriously about law, so it was
  72. entirely different than any of his other works.
  73. Grace Tiffany is a professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance drama.
  74. Like I stated before, she has her doctorate, and she's
  75. done ah, lot of different critiques of some of Shakespeare's
  76. works. burn decades.
  77. At this point, the critical essay I found about the
  78. play in itself and, like the key point, would be
  79. almost like religion.
  80. Um, in this they make Shylock the bad guy for
  81. being Jewish, and they spit at him, calm all sorts
  82. of names, make fun of them all the time.
  83. His daughter leaves him and takes his money.
  84. His servants try to get hired under new people it
  85. and it caused a lot of almost racial issues.
  86. As things have gone on, you know, Ah Bloom himself,
  87. Harold Bloom states that, you know it's hard to be
  88. objective, especially with everything that has happened in our history,
  89. um, to Jewish people themselves.
  90. So while back in Shakespeare's time, they probably would have
  91. all pointed their finger at him and saw him as
  92. the bad guy.
  93. And today's time it's a bit more like you can
  94. see how cruel everybody was to him.
  95. And while they claim this is supposed to be more
  96. of a Christian play, it doesn't really reflect in a
  97. Christian type manner.
  98. Um, those rumors about where, sure?
  99. Where William Shakespeare got the idea for Shylock, Um, some
  100. even go as far to say that he was Shylock
  101. himself and that it represented a part of himself.
  102. However, Howard Blum was extremely hesitant on that idea.
  103. Yeah, my personal opinion on this play.
  104. I chose it specifically because I used to go to
  105. Venice all the time.
  106. Quite literally.
  107. My I lived in Italy for two years.
  108. Um, right.
  109. Like an hour away from Venice.
  110. It was hot spot, you know, great food.
  111. Great time.
  112. Um, great sites.
  113. Always great to see.
  114. So that's why I chose this place specifically, Um, I
  115. think this was a place slash film.
  116. It was set up kind of like a play with,
  117. like, the backdrop in everything.
  118. But it was filmed like this wasn't like somebody caught
  119. film and filmed it.
  120. This was intentionally filmed and distributed.
  121. My first impression of this was really confusing because the
  122. language, mainly being that it was filmed in 2001 I
  123. expected it to be a lot more modern than it
  124. waas. But it wasn't.
  125. It was almost in, like it was staying very near
  126. and true to the original, so that made it kind
  127. of difficult to watch.
  128. But it was different than I expected it to be,
  129. um, after I watched it, I had to do some
  130. reading just to make sure that I was on track
  131. with it.
  132. And I end up investing a lot of time into
  133. making sure I was understanding everything the way I was
  134. supposed Thio.
  135. So that way I could explain this in a good,
  136. like, clear and concise way, and that is the end
  137. of my presentation.