How Does Shakespeare Create Tension In The Merchant Of Venice

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Drama and Tension in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Introduction

The merchant of Venice is about a merchant who borrows a loan to help a friend who wants to go to Belmont to Marie a woman called Portia. The person who borrows a loan is a merchant name (Antonio), and Antonio goes and gets the loan off a Jew name (Shylock). After Antonio borrows the loan, Antonio sign a bond saying that if in three month Antonio ships don’t return, shylock would have his pond of flesh. But Antonio feel and he is taker to court. Final the court has end and he redeems himself.

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The trail would be held at the Supreme Court in Venice. If I were to design the set in order to show it …show more content…

The table would court would be centre in the middle of the court to show the procession be held. The duke is a world famous figure; I would direct his entrance by making the people in the court stand up as the duke enters the court room. And I’ll make the people also be silence as the duke enters in. and as the duke; the court he with be escorted with his armed officer one on his left and other on his right. As shylock enters he is the odd one out, because everyone in the court is Christian and shylock is the only Jew in the court. As the director, I would show shylock emotion through the use of body language by walking up and down smiling in the court. A court full of Christian as shylock enters the court room. The Christian would react to him by throwing paper balls; boo win him calling him name and all sort of bad stuff. And why, because the room is full of Christians and shylock is the only Jew there. In Venice Jews are hated because there’s Anti-Semitism show in Venice. Shylock is the subject to abuse is it state that in Act 3 Sense 1, ‘’ laughed at my loses mocked …show more content…

I would he direct the actor playing as Portia to talk hardly as if she is reciting a poem as she says he speech in lines 180-193. I would expect to use a soft tone that is how and also should walk gently around the court to both the persecutors and dependant. The actor should also pound on emphasize her point about many and the central theme which is that for justice.

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Apart from Portia, many other characters in the play disguise them as what they don of seen to be. Nerissa who dresses as a lawyer clerk disguises herself as a male yet she is a female. Jessica dresses as a boy so she could have high dances of running away from her fathers houses. Like Lancelot Gobbo mislead their father old Gobbo who ask for directions. I would direct the person playing Portia to walk like a man in this tragedy and she should walk away from Bassanio to present close recognised of her body structure, she may also talk in a deepened voice that is manlike.

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According to what Bassanio say in lines 206-214, his speech show that he requests Portia to flits the law that governs Venice.

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