Comment on the Trail Scene in "The Merchant of Venice"?

Trail scene in The Merchant of Venice

The Trail scene in The Merchant of Venice is one of the greatest scenes in the whole range of Shakespearean drama. Here Shylock  who first seems to have succeeded in his revengeful desire for a pound of Antonio’s flesh to be cut off from his bosom, is subsequently thwarted  in his purpose by the sagacity of Portia’s who is a woman disguised as  a man.

The Merchant of Venice is a Comedy of Incidents and not of Characters.

The Merchant of Venice is a Comedy of Incidents

The plot of The Merchant of Venice is a highly elaborate one. The play does not have a single plot. The main plot of the play is the Bond story and the sub plots here are the story of the caskets and the Lorenzo Jessica love affair; here we have also an under plot namely the story of the rings. With a great skill Shakespeare has woven together these various stories into a coherent whole.

Write on Shakespeare's Characterization of Shylock.

Shakespeare's Characterization of Shylock

Shylock is one of the notorious characters in the entire range of Shakespearean drama. He represents a mixture of several traits of character who arouses different feelings in us at different times. He cannot simply be classified as tragic figure or as a villain or as a comic character.

Consider the Merchant of Venice as a Tragi-Comedy

The Merchant of Venice as a Tragi-Comedy

The Merchant of Venice has generally been classified as a romantic comedy which means a play containing a number of romantic elements and a number of comic elements, skillfully and artistically mixed together. But almost every romantic comedy of Shakespeare has a number of serious elements too, and some of these serious elements come very close to becoming tragic which makes the play a tragi comedy.

In the Novella "Seize the Day", Discuss Wilhelm’s Character as Struggling one in Problem

Wilhelm’s Character Struggling one in Problem  in Seize the Day

 

In Saul Bellow’s novella Seize the Day Wilhelm is a character in the midst of great struggle. Going through a midlife crisis he finds problems converging from all sides. These difficulties affect him physically as well as mentally and emotionally:

Theme of Hope and Regeneration as You Find it in Shelley’s Poetry

Shelley as a poet of hope with reference to his poem “Ode to the West Wind”.

Write a note on Shelley’s optimism with illustrations from his poems.

Theme of Hope and Regeneration in Shelley’s Poetry

Shelley was a born revolutionary and he had firm faith in the regeneration of mankind. He was a visionary whose faith and optimism never dwindled. His motto of life was to liberate mankind form the tyranny of all types. He dreamt of a bright and radiant future. His constant aim in poetry was to bring about a glorious millennium- a Golden Age in future. His “Ode to the West Wind” is a poetic manifestation of the home and optimism that he would nourish in the inner recesses of his heart.