Dahlia's English Class Blog

Something unfair that's happening to Portia and something unfair about Portia In this blog post, I'll be talking about something unfair that is happening to Portia and something unfair about Portia. So the unfair thing that is happening to Portia in this play by Shakespeare, is that when her father had passed away, part of his will was for Portia to marry. But the thing is though, Portia isn't allowed to choose who she marries, which is also part of her fathers' will. So the way they'd choose Portia's husband, is by having all of the people that want to marry her (suitors) and make them choose one out of three caskets. One casket would be filled with gold, the other silver, and the last one lead. If one of her suitors choose the casket which has a portrait of Portia in it, then they would marry her. Even if Portia doesn't like the person who chose the correct casket. But the unfair thing about Portia though, is that she's a bit racist. One of her suitor...

So one of the themes in "The Merchant of Venice" a play by William Shakespeare, is prejudice. In my own words, prejudice is basically an opinion that you created on a certain group or just a person without actually having an experience with that group, or actually having a real life interaction with that particular group. And sometimes people with prejudice make negative opinions on other people. So in a way, it's a "unbiased" opinion on a group of people. Two characters in this story, Antonio and Shylock definitely relates to one of the themes in the play (which is prejudice as I had said before). So in the play, Antonio is going to Shylock because he wants to borrow some money in his friends' name, Bassanio. And it turns out that Shylock is actually Jew while Antonio is Christian, and that apparently Shylock hates Antonio for he is a Christian (on line 368, Shylock says "I hate him for he is a Christian,"), and that Antonio also hates Shylock a...

I think that prejudice, justice and mercy do have a few things in common. The first thought that pops up in my mind when I think about similarities in prejudice, justice and mercy, is that they can all be ways of treating people. Yes, I do know that prejudice, justice and mercy don't treat people the same way, but they are still ways of treating people, even though they are different. In justice, people are treated with what they deserve, with what's right, with equal treatment and with fairness. People who are treated with justice can also be treated in some sort of punishment that they deserve. Mercy on the other hand, though is very different than justice. When people are treated with mercy, that means that most of the time, they are forgiven, pardoned, tolerated and/or pitied upon on any mistakes or wrong doings that they did. And lastly, when someone is treated with prejudice. To my understanding, prejudice is when a someone has an opinion on a certain person either based ...