Margaret Reed Mr. Breite The Mirror Up to Nature 21 October 2014 The Personalities Behind the Caskets In the Merchant of Venice, Portia has a lottery for which suitor she must marry based off her fathers will that he left her. Due to Portia’s wealth, good locks, and reputation, many suitors come to woo her. The major theme of choice is played in the scene of the caskets. There is a gold, silver, and lead casket with one that has a picture of Portia, which equals her hand in marriage. Unlike
Indian horse and the other one on To kill a Mockingbird, Analysis on short stories like The Curio Shop, The interloper, A coyote Columbus story and another short story. From writing these Analyzes, I learned what literary devices are and how they are displayed in a passage. Examples of literary devices are foreshadowing, tone, mood, irony, and more. At the beginning of the semester I came into English class without knowing how to analysis anything and only having the ability to summarize which made
witnessed beginning with “homosocial” and ending with “androgynous”. Shakespeare first constructed “homosocial” relationships, which is defined as same-sex bonding without the presence of sexual desire, as seen in A Midsummer’s Night Dream and The Merchant of Venice. The next type of relationship that can be observed is “homoerotic ” relationships, or same-sex affiliations based on love and physical desire, which can be identified in the plays As You Like It and Twelfth Night, or What You Will. “Bisexual”