Laura Carmichael as Portia: 'The quality of mercy' | Shakespeare Solos 

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And culminated with the "Final Solution" of Hitler. Amazing how Shakespeare has been very lucid in his time. Few men in history have match this: Socrates, Confucius and Marx.

thanks this helped with my English homework

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@kprop have you read up on him?

@@thomasmilavec3754 You’re right, I didn’t. I saw the film with Al Pacino. What am I not getting?

Conrad Maclean, and therein lies the fault. Like many other actors of Shakespeare, she is too locked into the rhythm, and not sufficiently expressing of the meaning.

@@MandyJMaddison The tempo was about all she did well in that performance. Not to be cruel, but she's simply not the same caliber as these other performances. This is especially true compared to Lewis, Ashton, Joseph and Fiennes. Watching any one of those 4, then this, and the differences are stark.

I'm with you. Isn't it just grand that stuff like this touches us?

Thank you for articulating what I have felt, Kyuubi Fox.

She did indeed. It was masterly.

I heartily thank thee ! I worship the works of Shakespeare !

Thanks

Her rendition is very stirring though there's one small point that bothers me. The key line is: > It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown. She adds a slight derogatory tone to "his crown", as if to say: the crown is unimportant, mercy is the most important thing. But this is a quintessentially modern way of thinking. The medieval mindset would be something like: The crown is supremely important, and mercy is even more important. It's a minor point, but it niggles at me.

This is how Brazilians see Portugueses speaking.

Yes, although a very obvious thought for a Christian

Same I chose this one to memorize for tomorrow, Although I can't seem to memorize the whole thing 😅

Well, this is her giving a chance for Shylock to back down. He doesn't then she wrecks him, but does have him killed.

Shotgun Parley Shylock converts to Christianity actually..

@@desertdaisymarie6951 I suspect Shotgun Parley intended for there to be a "not" after "does" in his response.

Oppression, right. You should check better what lenders were doing at the time to collect debts.

Arimaquinador I am referring specifically to what Shylock has gone through in the play.

That's fair, sorry for missing the point.

Shylock is granted a light punishment relative to the severity of his crime -- conspiring against the life of a Venetian citizen. The usual penalty would have been the loss of all his land and goods to the state. It is Portia who, with her rhetoric on mercy, primes the duke to render a merciful sentence: Shylock is fined, but does not have the entirety of his property confiscated. Had Portia not extolled mercy, I am inclined to think (just speculating here) that the duke might have been less lenient. After all, Shylock shows no remorse when he gloats over having the chance to "legally" get away with murder. As an aside -- Certainly none of us assume the poor are incapable of being moral on account of their poverty. Neither ought we be surprised if a rich woman's wealth does not hinder her love for what is noble. It is also unremarkable that a Christian would value mercy, since this virtue has a central role in that religion.

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Actually i dont think she did such a great job, the words sound almost all the same to me. Its like she goes on and on without giving texture to the monologue. I like how she speaks and the rythm and the words are stressed correctly but besides that I dont seem to see any more in here.

Sammy197 question. How and where would one look when one is sad about death of his cat and and is talking to his father about his opposition to technology.

do a vid Sammy and show us how it`s done.

Sammy i think the same

Mercy towards one another is short supply nowadays. Especially in the cause of justice

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