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1、NAMEBACKROUNDCHARACTERSCALAASICASTHE ENDONE OF TH E FOURTH GREATEST ONE OF TH E FOURTH GREATEST COMEDIESCOMEDIESThe background of the work Shakespeares most powerful play comes to bear in Michael Radfords THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, which follows the interlocking lives of a captivating a s s o r t m e n
2、 t o f c l a s s i c Shakespearean characters.AntonioAntonio.Someone who cannot name the source of his melancholy and who, throughout the course of the play, devolves into a self-pitying lump, unable to muster the energy required to defend himself against execution.ShylockShylockA clownish Jewish st
3、ereotype, or a tragic figure whose sense of decency has been fractured by the persecution he endures.BassanioBassanioThe young, a not frugal friend of Antonio, loves PortiaPortiaQuick-witted, wealthy, and b e a u t i f u l , P o r t i a embodies the virtues that are typical of Shakespeares heroinesS
4、OMECLAASICALWORDSHath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick u
5、s, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. 绝不做冷酷无情的人绝不做冷酷无情的人Never be the person who is selfish or mean.Never be the person who is selfish or mean.2011 11 ,04
