please answer this really need help if read merchent of venice help?

Question

1)Tragedy or Comedy? What do the structure and dramatic qualities of the play suggest Shakespeare intended? Note details which support your opinion

2)Music? What characteristics are associated with music throughout the play? When is music significant to theme and structure?

3)Gold? Does it take on a negative connotation in the play? When? Think of two examples?

4) Justice Vs. Mercy? How are these placed in opposition? What is central to the meaning of Portia’s “The quality of mercy” speech?


I am offereing the person with the best answer's a 50 point bonus if they wan't meaning that if intrested and choose 50 instead of 10, i will ask same question, and as the same answer you will get this 4 more times

Answer 1

haha i just read that.

i can kinda answer some of them

1. it's a comedy. i don't have time to answer the rest.
2. there was only 1 scene i knew had music and that was when Portia and Nerissa are singing when Bassiano is choosing a box. (Portia wants him to find the right one and he does) so i guess it's for want or soemthing?
3. gold is one of the wrong boxes it says summat like "he who chooses me will get all he deserves" so basically whoever chooses it doesn't get the woman because they are greedy and thinking only of themselves. The second time might be where Shylock is so locked on to his worldly possesions and is planning to kill antonio for his money. I dunno
4. So you know that Shylock and Antonio had a deal that if Antonio doesn't pay him by a certain day, Shylock gets to remove a pound of flesh closest to antonio's heart.There's justice versus mercy in the scene where Shylock is about to take the pound of flesh from Antonio and Portia (disguised as a man) first tries to get him to show mercy to Antonio and forget about their deal and Shylock refuses. Then Portia points out to him that he said a pound of flesh not a pound of flesh and blood so the tables are turned and Shylock is in trouble for deliberately trying to kill a man because taking a pound of flesh would definately kill him. And the justice is that for trying to kill Antonio, Shylock has to turn in all his possessions and become a Christian. I think anyways.

Answer 2

I have reported this question as abuse, because I believe that you are trying to get other people to do your assignment for you, which I don't think your school would approve of. If you were just looking for discussion, you wouldn't have said you NEED help.

Read the play, and answer the questions to the best of your ability. Also, your last paragraph is inconprehensible.

Answer 3

The merchant of Venice was a structured reflection of anti-semitism, of the times it was written, Shylock being the arch typical Jew ;

Shakespeare studied people,
he brought in all life's humour and pathos , wound together in a tapestry of the Elizabethan times .

Each individual character, he made unique , HE stired them together, in a glorious melting pot of prose .

His work was meant to be enjoyed .

Answer 4

I think teachers need to tell their students to stop using Yahoo Answers in lieu of studying.

Back in my day we didn't have computers for anything but math and games.