...like In the play 'The Merchant of Venice' by William Shakespeare, the character Bassanio is Antonio's friend. He is a bit dithery about money and tends to overspend. Nowadays we would call him a spendthrift. Any money that may have been left to him to build his future has already been wasted so he casts about for someone else's. Then he gets to hear about a girl called Portia and her amazing fortune of a dowry. In those days, a woman's finances, capital and property almost always went to her husband on marriage - even if it had been left to her by her own family. However, there is one problem. He knows he will not 'look the business' as a good potential match himself as he may not even be solvent himself. So he uses people. He tries to get the money to look good off someone who is supposed to be his friend. He is also arrogant and thinks too highly of himself, thinking he has noticed admiring looks from Portia - all in all, he does need taking down a peg or two! Karen P.L. Hardison | College Teacher | eNotes Employee Posted January 23, 2010 at 4:30 AM (Answer #2) dislike1like Bassanio in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is the central instigator of all the follows and he not the most steady young man in Venice. He has considerable bad qualities but he also has considerable good qualities, although the good ones may not be of a nature that they can counterbalance the bad. First, Bassanio is a reckless youth with no wisdom or thought for the future. He has spent whatever...
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...views best describes the character of Antonio in your question. In “Merchant of Venice”, Antonio is the main character as he is the “merchant” in the story in Venice. As Antonio is a Christian, he is quite anti-Semitic and rude to Shylock, making some people believe that he is spiteful and bigoted. However, most of the play centers on him being the victim of the “villain” of the play, Shylock due to their bond they made. As Antonio is willing to give everything for Bassanio without any payment and he strikes at any chance to help Bassanio, I believe Shakespearian and modern audiences would believe him to be more of a well-intentioned and loyal friend. At the start of the play, when Bassanio and Antonio are discussing about their friendship, Antonio proudly mentions that “ {His} purse, {his} person, {his} extremest means lie all unlocked to {Bassanio’s} occasions.” This quotation starts off with a tricolon, which builds up from “my purse”, showing how Antonio is willing to give his money; to “my person”, showing how Antonio is willing to give his body for Bassanio; to “my extremest means”, showing how Antonio will go very far for Bassanio, showing his loyalty and strong friendship with Bassanio. “Purse” and “person” also have soft plosives, showing his sincerity and determination. “Lie unlocked” shows his generosity and how he will share everything he has with Bassanio. “Your occasions” shows his loyalty to the most extreme, as it means Bassanio can do whatever he wants with...
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...In 1254, Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy. Marco was a Venetian merchant and explorer, whose travels in Asia molded the idea for the European image of the east up until the 19th century. Marco Polo was a large influence to many of the later explorers. Be it through his book, “The Travels of Marco Polo”, which mainly described Polo’s travels through China, Indonesia, and Persia between 1276 and 1291. There have been many speculations through the years whether Marco Polo accomplished all of the things he said he did. Despite the negativity, Marco Polo affected history, and is still important in learning about history to this day. Details on Marco’s personal life is nearly non-existent, except for the information that is given in his book....
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...that of Jessica in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and explain the dramatic purpose they fulfill. ‘Beautiful Abigail and Jessica serve to contrast with the hyperbolic representation of Judaism presented by their fathers.’ Jessica and Abigail both have a variety of different similarities and differences. Both are from wealth obsessed, single parent families that are controlling and manipulative. Their fathers are seen as protagonists throughout both the plays and similarly are both from a Jewish background. This makes the audience prejudge them as inferior characters with possible sinful traits. On the other hand, both are accepted by the remaining characters in which believe in the Christian religion. As well as similar backgrounds and basic character personalities they also portrait the stereotypical Jewish actions towards situations. In Elizabethan times Jews were discriminated and prejudged in the status focused society. They were accused for stealing, adultery and other Christian sins. In the play, both the father-dependent daughters commit the sin of stealing. Abigail steals from the nunnery to retrieve her fathers’ misplaced wealth. ‘Thus father shall I much dissemble…then father here receive thy happiness.” She describes the money as her fathers ‘happiness.’ This indicates that her reason for completing the sin was to fulfill her fathers’ desire. This shows dramatic purpose because it allows the audience to experience the revelation of loyalty between herself and her...
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...when theater comes to mind. He made a name for himself in the world by becoming a playwright and writing comedies as well as tragedies for people’s entertainment that are still used today. However, Shakespeare is not one of the names that immediately come to mind when we consider the world of theology and religion. Yet the basic themes of Christianity play a foundational role in many of the classic scenes found in Shakespeare’s most famous works. We can examine this through the Shakespearian element of redemption, a view of taking kindness on humanity that academics believe was his own. Shakespeare’s plays still have relevance today because of his redemptive view of the world and of human experiences, particularly in the comedies The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and All’s Well That Ends Well. Much has been made of Shakespeare’s religious and theological grounding. The issues have been centered primarily on whether Shakespeare was Protestant or Catholic. Many prominent Roman Catholic scholars, including the Rev. David Beauregard, have gone to great lengths to assert that Shakespeare was in fact Roman Catholic. Beauregard says a now-lost eighteenth-century document suggested that Shakespeare’s father, John, was a devout Catholics and his mother, Mary, was a member of the staunchly Catholic Arden family of Park Hall. Beauregard points to very Catholic theological concepts found in Shakespeare’s plays, including the use of the concept of Purgatory in Hamlet, a uniquely...
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...As You Like It presents an ideal world, just as The Merchant of Venice did. The Forest of Arden has as much romance, as many delightful lovers, more laughter and Joy. Lamb, Charles and Mary. Like A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, it is built by means of two worlds: the world ruled by Duke Frederick and the world of the Forest of Arden. Lamb, Charles and Mary. The effect is not the "separate but equal" envelope structure of A Midsummer Night Dream, nor the interlocking and necessary alternation of The Merchant of Venice; instead, Frederick's world first seems dominant and then dissolves and disappears into the world of Arden. Lamb, Charles and Mary. Its life seems to be in the play not so much for itself as to help us understand and read its successor. There is a set of contrasts between the two worlds of this play, but the contrasts are describable not in terms of opposition of power, as in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, but in terms of attitudes of the dominant characters, as in Much Ado About Nothing, and in terms of differences in the settings and of changes in behavior for those characters who are part of both worlds. Lamb, Charles and Mary. These contrasts are easy to describe because Shakespeare points the way clearly, making each world an extreme. Our approach will be to examine the qualities of Frederick's world, then to examine the qualities of Arden, and finally out of this contrast to see how the characters behave in...
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...ways. They started out as many nomadic tribes uniting into a civilized empire. They were justified to be civilized by the people they affected. The Mongols gained social, cultural, and moral development from Chinggis Khan, Kublai Khan, Marco Polo, mongol generals, mongolian women, chinese peasants, merchants, and Buddhist monks. Under the leader of Chinggis Khan, the mongols became as one to a disciplined military state through the the making of laws. Their military was highly developed with loyalty, discipline, horses and weapons to conquer and expand their land. The military was divided into units of groups of soldier who each maintained an amount of horses. The units’ generals...
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...Connor Phillips Mrs. Mondesir ENG 2D1 05 Monday, October 31, 2011 Everybody makes agreements even if it is a promise of love, or helping someone out. Agreements usually are made with a contract, a hand shake or by trusting the words spoken. In the play Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare, the characters Bassanio, Antonio and Shylock make many agreements throughout the play which help the reader learn about the personalities and thoughts of the characters. Bassanio makes the most risky pacts that cause a change in the thoughts and views of the other characters. Bassanio asks Antonio if he may borrow money from Shylock for him, creating a problem between Antonio and Shylock. Antonio needs to pay Shylock the money that Bassanio owes him within the next three months. Since Antonio is not able to meet that deadline, Shylock uses this opportunity to seek revenge on Antonio due to their difference in religion. Although all three men were involved, the agreement only included Shylock and Antonio. “Three thousand ducats for three months, and Antonio bound.”(I, iii, 8-9). What Shylock means by “Antonio bound” is that if Antonio cannot or does not pay Shylock, Antonio will have a pound of flesh removed from him. This shows the recklessness of Bassanio as he borrows money and does not think about the consequences Antonio will face. Another agreement Bassanio makes is a promise to his love Portia that he will never take the ring she gave him off even though his love...
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...bloodiest tragedies written by Shakespeare. It is not as complex as other plays like The Merchant of Venice, Othello and Hamlet which explores the fine nuances of the characters but is a drama with a sharp and jagged theme which flows rapidly from the beginning to the end. Macbeth is a story of a brave and courageous Scottish general (Macbeth) who on receiving a prophecy of becoming the future king (by witches) and instigated by his wife goes on to murder the king (Duncan) and seize the throne. The fear of losing the throne and to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, Macbeth commits even more murders and soon becomes a tyrant. The bloodbath finally drags Macbeth and his wife to madness and death. Character Analysis: Of the many characters in the play, two characters form the core of the whole play namely Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth – The play introduces Macbeth as a Scottish general and the thane of Glamis. Macbeth’s initial image from the play is that of a brave and courageous soldier. The following speech from the Captain illustrates Macbeth’s bravery: For brave Macbeth -well he deserves that name- Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like Valor's minion carved out his passage Macbeth is also shown as a very loyal kinsman of the king. His devotion to his duty is illustrated from the following lines: The service and the loyalty lowe, In doing it, pays itself. Your Highness' part Is to receive our...
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...Who was William Shakespeare? Shakespeare is William Shakespeare, one of the English-speaking world's greatest playwrights and poets, who possessed a great knowledge of human nature and transformed the English theatre. Yet many facts of his life remain a mystery. Some have been acquired from painstaking looks at the records of the time, so that this summary is based on generally agreed facts. It has been said that we only know three things about Shakespeare: that he was born, married and died. He was baptised on April 26, 1564; we do not know his birth date, but many scholars believe it was April 23, 1564. His father was John Shakespeare (who was a glover and leather merchant) and his mother Mary Arden (who was a landed local heiress). John had a remarkable run of success as a merchant, alderman, and high bailiff of Stratford, during William's early childhood. His fortunes declined, however, in the late 1570s. William lived for most of his early life in Stratford-upon-Avon. We do not know exactly when he went to London but he is said to have arrived in 1592. There is great conjecture about Shakespeare's childhood years, especially regarding his education. It is surmised by scholars that Shakespeare attended the free grammar school in Stratford, which at the time had a reputation to rival that of Eton. While there are no records extant to prove this claim, Shakespeare's knowledge of Latin and Classical Greek would tend to support this theory. In addition, Shakespeare's...
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...LITERATURE IN ENGLISH ENGLISH Paper – 2 (Two hours) Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately. You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes. This time is to be spent in reading the question paper. The time given at the head of this paper is the time allowed for writing the answers. Attempt five questions in all. You must attempt one question from each of the Sections A, B and C and any two other questions. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ]. SECTION A - DRAMA The Merchant of Venice : Shakespeare Question 1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow: Salarino : O! ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont To keep obliged faith unforfeited! That ever holds: who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down? Where is the horse that doth untread again His tedious measures with the unbated fire That he did pace them first? All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd Gratiano: (i) (ii) (iii) Where does this scene take place? Who has out-dwelt his hour? Normally what do the lovers do as far as the appointed time is concerned? Who is Venus? How do the Venus’s pigeons behave as far as love is concerned “All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy’d”. How far is this statement brought out by giving the example of a ship in later lines? [3] [3] [3] [3] [4] (iv) (v) ...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Due to increased globalization competition has virtually cross is extremes globally and Nepal is not an exception to it. The degree of world converging economy and unchallenged dominance of develop nation has proved to suppressing developing countries to a larger extent. India a developing nation has proved to withstand itself as an exception to this challenge all because of its efficient and effective human resource. The capability of human resource and its retention within determines the development of any economy and nation as a whole. Nepal Bank Limited being the first bank of Nepal, is a pioneer banking institution of Nepal. Nepal Bank Limited seeks to provide and Environment within which the bank can bring unique financial value and service to all customers. Being a sound institution where depositors have continue to have faith in the security of their fund and receive reasonable returns. Borrowers are assured of appropriate credit facilities at reasonable prices. Other service seekers receive prompt and attentive service at reasonable cost through its extensive branch networks around the country. Beside this NBL has been providing various modern banking products and services to its customers. For this to take place I enrolled with NBL kalimati branch as an intern for the period of two months. The help desk service includes the services of account opening, balance inquiry, publishing account statement, issuing cheque...
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...A Project Report On A project study on “BANKING AT HDFC BANK LTD.” Submitted by: XXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX University, Mumbai MBA in Banking (Finance) DECLARATION I undersigned XXXXX XXXXX student of MBA 3rd semester declare that I have done the project on “ BASIC BANKING AT HDFC BANK LTD.” has been personally done by me under the guidance of Prof. XXXXX XXXXXXX rajkot in partial fulfillment of MBA Program- during academic year-2008-10. All the data represented in this project is true & correct to the best of my knowledge & belief. I also declare that this project report is my own preparation and not copied from anywhere else. Date 10-7-201X Signature XXXXX XXXXXX Acknowledgement I take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratitude, thanks and regards towards all of those who have directly or indirectly helped me in the successful completion of this project. I present my sincere thanks to Mr. XXXX XXXX (Branch Manager, bhavngar ) who allowed me to take training at HDFC BANK. I would also like to thank HDFC bank Staff for their wonderful€ support & inspirable guiding. I also thank Prof. XXXX sir XXXX, Rajkot & prof XXXX sir knvibm who has sincerely supported me with the valuable insights into the completion of this project. I am grateful to all faculty members of XXXX rajkot and my friends who have helped me in the successful completion of this project. Last but not the least I am indebted...
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...WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS Western Civilization HMS 301 1 WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS Main Topics The Black Death The Effects of the Black Death The Rise of Constitutional Monarchy The Hundred Years’ War The Decline of the Church The Renaissance Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance Italian Renaissance Humanism Machiavelli and Power Politics Leonardo Da Vinci Global Travel and Trade The African Cultural Heritage West African Kingdoms The Europeans in Africa Native American Cultures Maya Civilization The Empires of the Incas and the Aztecs The Spanish in the Americas and the Aftermath of Their Conquest The Impact of Technology Christian Humanism and the Northern Renaissance Luther and the Protestant Reformation The Spread of Protestantism The Catholic Reformation 2 WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS The French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte The Industrial Revolution Advancing Industrialism Colonialism China and the West Social and Economic Realities Nineteenth-Century Social Theory: conservatism, liberalism & socialism The Radical View of Marx and Engels Picasso and the Birth of Cubism Futurism, Fauvism and Non Objective Art The Birth of Motion Pictures Freud and the Psyche Total War and Totalitarianism The First World War The Russian Revolution Nazi Totalitarianism The Second World War Identity and Liberation: Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X 3 WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS The Black Death ...
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...APPROVAL LETTER TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ACKNOWLEDGMENT DECLARATION I hereby declare that the work reported in this project work on “Nepal Investment Bank Limited.” submitted to Thames International College, Tribhuvan University is my original work done in the form of partial requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Information Management (BIM). It has not been previously submitted to any other University or any other examination(s) nor has been duplicated from any other reports. ………………………………………. Laju Shrestha Exam Roll No:2763/10 TU Registration No: 7-2-450-106-2010 Contents APPROVAL LETTER i TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ii ACKNOWLEDGMENT iii DECLARATION iv LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF FIGURES viii ABBREVIATION ix CHAPTER: 1 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1Background 1 1.2Objective of the Internship 2 1.3Methodology 3 1.3.1Organization Selection 3 1.3.2 Sources of Data 3 1.3.3 Placement 4 1.3.4Duration of field work 4 1.3.5 Activities performed in various department 5 CHAPTER: 2 6 INTRODUCTION TO THE BANKING INDUSTRY 6 2.1 Introduction to Banking 6 2.2 Nature and Importance of Banks 6 2.3 History of Banking 7 2.4 History of Banking in Nepal 8 2.5 Types of Banks 9 2.6 Commercial Bank 9 2.6.1 Functions of Commercial Bank 10 CHAPTER: 3 11 INTRODUCTION TO THE ORGANIZATION 11 3.1 Introduction of NIBL 11 3.2 Vision 11 3.3 Mission 11 3.4 Background 12 3.5 Capital Structure of NIBL 12 3.6 Organization structure...
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