The Merchant of Venice
The play, ¡°The Merchant of Venice¡± by William Shakespeare has two main settings. One setting is Venice, a city where many businessmen live, a place, full of unhappy and unkind people. It a world of commercial and law. Shakespeare has portrayed Venice as the ¡°real¡± world. The other setting is Belmont, a city which houses a rich, happy society of beautiful people. Belmont is a fairy-tale world of music and love. In this play, it is evident that, good things happen in Belmont and not so pleasant events happen in Venice.

The play begins with Antonio, a rich merchant of Venice is depressed, which shows that money and wealth did not bring happiness to this man. Shylock, a wealthy businessman who lives in Venice is not happy because he is an outsider and he is treated badly because of his Jewish religion. All his money could not buy him the happiness he wanted. Shylock¡¯s daughter, Jessica says, ¡°Our house is hell.¡± This is a woman who belongs......

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Title: Merchant Of Venice
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