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Mapping Out Human Experiences in The Merchant of Venice

The Rubric – Pulling it Apart How does text invite


responder to see world
Texts represent differently, challenge
individual & collective assumptions, ignite new
human experiences ideas, reflect personally?
How does
Qualities and emotions text tell a
How does text give insight into
Human experiences in the play arising from story?
anomalies, paradoxes and
 The pursuit of financial wealth/ desire experiences in the inconsistencies in human
to safeguard it can be consuming & texts behaviour and motivations?
divisive
 Views of /interactions with others  humour as a vehicle for
filtered through societal/personal insight
values – patriarchy, xenophobia  dramatic form e.g.
um  Inconsistencies in judgement
 individual and collective human asides, costuming,
e.g. Shylock lacks
experiences driven by extreme  risk takers soliloquy
wisdom/insight regarding
emotions  deception,  parallel plots –
Jessica (Clown 2.2.65-66)
 conscious/subconscious  naivety & intersecting at times
Antonio denigrates Shylock
thoughts/actions/reactions catalyse arrogance  props (key, ring)
but enters a business
human experiences  humour as a arrangement that involves a  pathos
 human experiences reveal fickle, coping level of trust  contrasting settings –
duplicitous, naïve, racist, cruel, mechanism/
 Paradoxes, anomalies in romantic/ethereal
inconsistent natures approach to atmosphere of Belmont
behaviour e.g. Bassanio
 love & money are uncomfortable navigating sharply contrasted with
pursuing love as he presents
‘companions’ in the play the world mercenary/masculine
a façade of wealth; willing to
 characters’ experiences reflect a desire  desire to put Antonio in debt of world of Venice
to exert free will however luck & fate exert free Shylock is enemy; also  archetypal stories
sometimes play major role will recruits Gratiano to assume embedded in the text
 actions can supersede conscience  self-interest a façade while in Belmont - Shylock as the
 women work together; men struggle a strong  Level of pretence, ‘other’
driver of deception, - Portia ‘empowered
emotions falsehood/secrecy that female who
 assigning a permeates the pursuit of subverts conventon
mask, hiding romantic love - the clown as the
behind a  Love & loyalty to provider of
facade friends/family often second ‘insights’
to self interest
 Subjective nature of justice
leads to personal
interpretations

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