威尼斯商人人物简介（A brief account of businessmen in Venice）.docVIP

威尼斯商人人物简介（A brief account of businessmen in Venice） Sherlock: on usury charge high interest rates for a living, and he bent solely on profit cunning, vengeful, greedy, stubborn and cruel in this city is very unpopular Shylock:, he, earned, a, living, usury, charge, high, interest, he, is, mercenary, cunning, vengeful, greedy, stubborn,, cruel, and, very, by, unpopular, in, the, city Bocia: she is intelligent, witty and decisive. She is calm, kind, kind and full of human brilliance Portia:, she, is, intelligent, witty, and, to, act, resolutely, calm, kind-hearted, full, of, the,, glory, of, human, nature Antonio: charitable, creditors not interest, treasure friendship, at the sacrifice of life. Antonio:he, is, generous, lend, money, do, not, take, interest, treasure, friendships, very, much. II. Analyzing, the, Heroes, in, the, Play In this play, Shakespeare portrays many roles. The proportion that male figures taking is much more notable than female s. So, s necessary to narrate it and display their nature character and symbol. A. Antonio Although the play s title refers to him , Antonio is a rather lackluster character. He emerges in Act I scene I as a hopeless, depressive 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. Antonio never names the cause of his melancholy, but the evidence seems to point to his being in love, and the most likely object of his affection is Bassanio. Antonio has risked the entirety of his fortune on oversea trading ventures, yet he agrees to guarantee the potentially lethal loan Bassanio secures from Shylock. He is willing to offer up a pound of flesh, signifying a union that grotesquely alludes to the rite of marriage, where two partners become one flesh Further evidence of the nature of. Antonio s feelings for Bassanio appears later in the play when Antonio s proclamations resonat