- Criticism of "The Merchant of Venice"
, a comedy that looks very cold, Venice with three tears falling in my heart, with very small ripples.
The vain love has
to regret to say that the only love in this play may only exist between Bassanio and Antonio. It is even more regrettable that Antonio, like Portia, fell in love with the same person who was not worthy of their strong feelings. At the end of the play, Antonio, who was left hanging in the living room, could the dawn of dawn bring him a little warmth? Maybe he would rather die under Sherlock's knife and let blood prove his tough love. Portia was equally distressed, whether it was hearing in court that her husband used him as a bargaining chip for rich friendship, clutching the ring that symbolized the oath on the boat, or the seductive seduction and invitation in the morning light at last, her last Compromise is not without bleak. "If you knew how to give your ring half its value, you wouldn't give it away." A woman can only be truly happy with someone who understands how happy it is to be with you.
Portia is really a wise woman, she handed the ring to Antonio, who passed it on to her husband, such a metaphor is wonderful! When Antonio pledged his soul to Bassanio and asked him to keep his eternal loyalty to this woman, I seemed to hear the laughter in Portia's heart, smug but not entirely happy. A woman is beautiful enough just to stay as she is, but when she falls in love with someone, she forces herself to be a thousand times more beautiful and a million times richer. "Woman, your name is weak." Just because of love.
unequal mercy
"In order to show that our spirit is different from yours, we will let you go without you begging." I could not hear the slightest mercy in the Duke's words. It was Sherlock's relief that he gave up punishment and I heard a kind heart whisper, "God, you are right." At the moment when Portia "wait a minute" was startled, it was this "ruthless and shameless" who made the loudest roar. Jews! Hatred made him raise the knife, and conscience stopped his shaking hands. But this by no means proves that the Jews are as merciful as the Christians, whose unequal positions always tip the scales to one side. For a person at a higher level, compassion often means showing off and vanity; on the contrary, for someone at a lower level, compassion comes from the heart, because it breaks through the suffering of oneself. The grievances come from the struggle with the goddess of nemesis in the heart. For the above reasons, I respect the latter more, and this is the real sympathy of human beings.
At the end of the
play, Cassia's figure looking at Venice marked the end of the comedy, and also determined all the imperfections. The girl who looked at her old father from the window and said, "If all goes well, I will lose a father, and you will lose a daughter," barely smiles on her face after leaving her ghetto home . It is really hard to say that it is so beautiful to have given up the only remaining family affection and lifelong beliefs, just to chase the misty love like the twilight. The turquoise ring, which had been replaced by a monkey, finally appeared on her finger, but has the love and blessings that this ring once experienced all gone? The last time we saw Sherlock's cloudy eyes when the big old wooden door in the slum creaked shut, was it despair? Let a person's soul be freed from the body before death comes. "Kasia, my child." He loved his daughter more than he felt sorry for himself. When we are young, we always pursue love that is contrary to our parents' wishes, long for understanding, and try to judge, but we really have good reasons to believe that the love that is only built by sweet words and vows is like a pile of dirt by a child on the beach. Is the completed castle really as strong as the brick room that our parents spent half their lives building for us? We rushed into the mud-built siege without hesitation, and what shattered the ground were two hearts that loved us the most. The love that is not blessed by parents is shocking just thinking about it.
I really don't want to think about the reason why Cassia ran to the beach alone in the early morning. Of course, nothing means infinite possibilities, but at the same time, it means that we are so poor that only ourselves are left.
I always feel that it was not Antonio who was tried in court, but a Platonic spiritual love between the same sex. Interestingly, it was his heterosexual rival who defended it; it was not Sherlock who complained, but a long-term lover. A strong nation that has been bullied and mutilated, and it is this nation that has taught the world the most extensive love in the world; the results seem to be happy, but in fact everyone is continuing a life that will never be perfect.
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