Exploring Feminism in The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare is the most well-known playwright in the world.The Merchant of Venice is one of the four great comedies by William Shakespeare.It is set during the Elizabethan period with rapid economic development and wide spread Renaissance humanism.Kindness and love are the main themes of the play.Against the backdrop of the spirit of humanism,the female characters in the play have preliminary feminist spirit and subject consciousness though there are some limitations.This article analyzes the feminist spirit in the play and women’s progress on their road of liberation.It suggests that while reflecting the initial emancipation of women in the West in the 16th century,the play also reveals the reality of the enormous social barriers on the road of women’s emancipation.The emancipation of women is an enduring topic in the development of society and a goal that people all over the world are still striving for.

Organic Unity in The Merchant of Venice

The ending(Act V) of The Merchant of Venice makes this play a great comedy because it skillfully represents the unity of the organic whole which is highly emphasized by Aristotle. As a text to be read, the ending of this play has reached organic unity concerning plot structure. As a play to be performed, the ending is an organic whole when it comes to dramatic effects.The unity of comic spirit in the ending attributes to the everlasting beauty of this play.

On the Otherness of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice

Compared with the other characters in The Merchant of Venice,Shylock seems to be totally an outsider and alien of Venice which is because he is considered to be the“Other”in the eyes of the other Venetians as a result of his identity a Jew as well as his occupation as a usurer,both of which are despised and degraded at the Elizabethan times.

Understanding the Image of Jews in a Chinese Translation of The Merchant of Venice Accompanied with A Paratext

William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice(1600)is controversial as a result of its negative depiction of the Jewish figure Shylock.In translating this literary work into Chinese,the translator is quite possibly involved in reconstructing the image of Jews,as Shylock being the representative in The Merchant of Venice,consciously,or unconsciously.In this paper,the translation of The Merchant of Venice by Shiqiu Liang(2001)is selected to find out how the image of Jews is conveyed to the Chinese readers.Due to the translator’s translation principle of being loyal to the original text,the content in the original text is transferred to the target readers without manipulation.However,the translation work was conducted with a particular social background which is believed to have influenced the translator’s interpretation of the original text.Accompanied the selected translation is a paratext,in which the translator expresses his own opinion on both the playwright and the Jewish and non-Jewish figures in the play;with this paratext,the target readers understand the figures in the play in a different way.Therefore,a different image of Jews is reconstructed in the translation,which is mainly analyzed at the level of larger textual units reflecting hierarchical relations from the perspective of imagology.

A Ubi Sunt Motif of Life Philosophy:Construction of Three Topological Spaces in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice

Topology,as a geometrical branch,studies spaces,whose essence lies in its topological equivalence.As far as literary criticism is concerned,the author’s writing purpose can be regarded as an open set in topology,which contains a number of different topological spaces.No matter how these spaces transform,they remain fundamental properties as long as their essence is invariant.From the perspective of topology,Shakespeare constructed three equivalent metaphorical topological spaces:one-pound-flesh agreement,marriage casket“lottery”,and wedding ring trick.The present paper purports to explore how Shakespeare constructed the three equivalent topological spaces to express the theme of literature:the ubi sunt1 motif of life philosophy.

A Study of Irony in The Merchant of Venice from the Perspective of Speech Act Theory

The Merchant of Venice is one of the four classic comedies of Shakespeare.In this work,the author skillfully depicts the characters in the novel with a sharp irony,making the drama plot interlocking.Based on the Austin-Searle’s Speech Act Theory,this paper makes a macro and micro analysis of the ironic speech act in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice,mainly from the literal irony,situational irony,dramatic irony three aspects of the macro-analysis of speech acts as well as the elaboration,directive,commitment,expressive irony for the micro-analysis.

Pragmatic Equivalence in Different Translations of The Merchant of Venice

Pragmatic equivalence, meaning to transfer the implied meaning of the source text to the target text, usually involves the receiver to whom the translation is directed. Two notions are crucial in translation to achieve pragmatic equivalence: context and optimal relevance. In light of these two element, the author in this paper conducts a case study by using Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice and two Chinese versions from Zhu Shenghao and Sun Dayu as data, by comparing these two versions to explore how pragmatic equivalence in translation can be achieve at lexical, semantic and cultural levels.

Representation of Shakespeare's Feminism in The Merchant of Venice

The paper focuses on analyzing the female character Portia in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, by adopting feminist theory from Beauvoir, Horney, and Wollstonecraft, and examining some of the social rules in Elizabethan age. By creating the rebellious heroine Portia, Shakespeare doubted and challenged the social rituals in his age. Thus Shakespeare's feminism is well demonstrated in this play.

Sony Venice摄影机创作探索

本文探索Sony Venice摄影机关于"机头机身分离"以及"双原生感光度"这两项革命性的技术功能,在实际电影拍摄创作中的应用。设计了与电影拍摄要求近似的短片段落拍摄,包含日景场景、低照度场景、动作场面、情感场面等典型拍摄内容,进行实地拍摄检验。基本按预期的设计和规划完成了拍摄,拍摄样片达到较高的技术水准和艺术品质。Sony Venice摄影机的双原生感光度是非常实用的一项功能,特别是在低照度条件下提高拍摄效率;机头机身分离的功能可以创作出新的手持摄影风格,但是需要加装第三方附件配合实用。

Venice

Venice is a beautiful city in 1. It's one of the most 2 cities in the world. It's built on a group of small islands(岛). 3 stone bridges cross the rivers 4 the islands. On the rivers there are little boats. They are the"water buses"of Venice. If we travel 5 the rivers 6. a boat, Italians may 7 us about the beautiful palaces we see on 8 sides of the rivers. We can also see many old buildings and the church(教堂) of St. Mark. 9 a beautiful city Venice is! Ⅰ10

23rd International Conference on Coastal Engineering 4-9 October 1992, Venice, ITALY

Organized by Consiglio Nazional delle Ricerche (CNR), Gruppo Nedonale diIdraulice(GNI) with the support of the Ministry of Public Works and under the auspices of theCoastal Engineering Research Council(CERC) of the American Society of CivilEngineering(ASCE), and co-sponsored by the international Association for Hydraulic of Navi-gation Congress(PIANC) and by the Associazione di Ingegneria Offshore e Marina(AIOM).Aim

Geomatic and Geotechnical Monitoring of Settlements in the Venice Lagoon, Italy

The safeguarding of Venice and the Venetian lagoon （Italy） from rising water is of great national interest. Besides the normal tidal regime, the effects of an increase in the frequency and intensity of floods in the lagoon have been accentuated by a reduction in the elevation of the land in respect to the actual average sea level. With the aim of reducing the vulnerability of the lagoon, the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research financed the research project ＂The geotechnical model of the subsurface for the safeguarding of Venice and its lagoon＂, to study the compressibility of the lagoon deposits, both by natural causes and as a consequence of overloading with heavy structures. The project involved the construction of a large experimental embankment in the Treporti area of the lagoon, in order to perform a full-scale long-term compression test on the lagoon soils. By using various geomatic and geotechnical monitoring techniques, it was possible to appraise very small vertical movements of the ground induced by the compressibility of the highly heterogeneous silty formations. High-precision data was acquired by means of classical topographic methodologies integrated with continuous GPS （Global Positioning System） measurements. In addition, vertical displacements of the ground were obtained using geotechnical instrumentation. This cross-monitoring approach provided a valuable tool for analyzing both the natural and anthropic causes of settlement.

第16章 VENICE模式:风浪预报模式

16.1模式 Venice模式已经由Cavaleri和Malanotte Rizzoli（1981）介绍过,这是一个基于射线技术,也适用于浅水的物理模式。在此仅简单地介绍该模式有关浅水的处理部分,因为这些处理基于深水的假定,所以它对理论研究并不重要。对本模式感兴趣的读者请见参考文献。 给定一个海底地形和一个参考点A,我们考虑一给定频率f的波峰经过这个点并以一特定方向移动。由折射定律（Collins,1972）建立了波的路径,或者确切地说,波峰垂直的射线:

Relationship of Morpho-Sedimentological Variations to the Fate of Hg-and Zn-Polluted Sediments in the Contaminated Site of Porto Marghera,Lagoon of Venice,Italy

New data collected from twenty-six sites during 2008 inthe contaminated Site of National Interest (SIN) of Porto Marghera within the Lagoon of Venice (Italy), which has been affected by the presence of an industrial zone for the last 80 years, were compared with data from a campaign performed in the same site 30 years before (1976-1978). The SIN was found to be heavily polluted in the earlier study, and several tons of Hg and Zn are still stored in soils and industrial channel sediments, potentially affecting the lagoon part of the SIN. Bathymetric variations, grain-size, Hg and Zn content in sediments were analysed. The severe contamination of the late 1970s (Hg 1.7 μg/g;Zn 754 μg/g) had fallen by the late 2000s (Hg 0.9 μg/g;Zn 225 μg/g). The fall in Hg and Zn contamination over the 30-year period was mainly linked to the patterns of geomorphological change inside the SIN that affected two distinct sub-areas: 1) a stable-depositional (SD) area in the Northern part, which exerted a “dilution” effect on contaminants, with significant deposition (~11%) of coarse-grained sediments (63 - 8 μm), and 2) an area characterised by moderate-to-severe-erosion (MSE) to the South, which saw the loss (~13%) of pollutant-bearing fine-grained sediments (sion if hydrodynamic conditions change in the future. This study provides useful support to decision-making systems by helping to select hot-spots for remediation measures.

派力奥车载网络VENICE

2002年初上市的派力奥汽车,装备了车载网络VENICE系统。VENICE系统不仅成功解决了电器系统装备复杂问题,而且为处理车上通信和在沿串行总线线路分布的不同子系统之间传递信息提供了更有效的方法。

The Grand Tour A look at 2007’s Venice Biennale, 38 Art Basel and Documenta 12

■The world’s most prestigious art shows teamed up in Europe this spring to create a European art tour that offered an unparalleled opportunity to examine contemporary art from around the world.It was an endless experience of