The Merchant Of Venice

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Term Paper Title	The Merchant Of Venice
# of Words	522
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.09

                                                        The Merchant Of Venice

Act 1
In the fist act, Antonio is introduced as the Merchant of Venice.  A friend of him, Bassanio, desperately needs money because all of his money is on his ships and he wants to go to Belmont to visit the woman of his dreams, Portia.  Therefore he goes to Antonio to ask if he is willing to go to Shylock and ask him if he can have 3000 ducats.  Antonio agrees and goes to Shylock and explains that he has to pay it back within 3 months.  If he doesn’t do this, he may cut one pound of his fair flesh...

Act 2
In Belmont, the casket bond proceeds: with two already rejected, news comes that Bassanio is at Portia’s gate.  Meanwhile, Shylock is left bewailing the loss of his ducats and his daughter that has run away with Lorenzo and the treasure.  Shylock doesn’t like this at all because he really doens’t like the Christians and Lorenzo is a Christian

Act 3
Jessica is now together with Lorenzo.  She is a Jew and he’s a Christian.  Jessica is embarrassed to be a Jew is planning to change religion for Lorenzo.  Shylock is still looking for them and is very mad when he finds out that she has sold a ring, that was given to Shylock by his wife, for a monkey.  Meanwhile Bassanio is picking one of the caskets and takes the correct one; the leaden casket.  He may now marry Portia.   Because Antonio hasn’t paid back the 3000 ducats he had lend from Shylock, Shylock may have ...

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