Tom Leick

Tom Leick

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    • Cassandra 2022-04-20 09:02:10

      Merchant of Venice = Venice hurts

      Is this really a comedy? If so, what a suffocating comedy!

         Most of the post-90s generation in China first came into contact with the play "The Merchant of Venice" through middle school Chinese textbooks, and I was no exception. Thinking back then, I always liked to go against the views of the...

    • Gust 2022-03-22 09:02:23

      Subversive high school textbooks

      I thought Sherlock and Sherlock Holmes were spelled together, but after reading it, I found that was not the case.
      I originally thought that the Jewish merchant was a bad villain, but found that this was completely misled by the excerpt from the middle school textbook.

      In other words, it looks like...

    • August 2022-03-16 09:01:05

      A complete tragedy. Sherlock’s tragic fate. Because as a Jew, what we get is contempt and hatred. The law stipulates that we can’t do the work we want to do. We can only give us money. People call us dogs. I think Antonio is cruel because he makes Xia Xia. Locke being a Christian is like killing his soul. He hates Bassanio. He's a flatterer. He doesn't have a backbone. He doesn't deserve Portia.

    • Haylie 2022-03-29 09:01:06

      I can't hate Sherlock at all, but I am very sympathetic~~~ Antonio's people are too cunning! Poor Venetian Merchant...

    The Merchant of Venice quotes

    • Prince of Morocco: Dislike me not for my complexion, the shadowed livery of the burnished sun, to whom I am a neighbour and a near bred. Yallah! Yallah!

    • Shylock: The fool is kind enough but a huge feeder. Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day more than a tomcat. Therefore, I part with him.