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 The Merchant Of Venice 

The Merchant of Venice is a play made by William Shakespeare, it contains many strong themes that will be explored in this Wiki page, this is intended for my teacher, as homework, so if you are a random person, I suggest you find a different Wiki page for the themes.

Romance and Friendship 

There are many relationships in The Merchant Of Venice, as well as friendships an example of this is: Bassanio and Portia, Antonio and Bassanio as well as Lorenzo and Jessica and Gratiano and Nerissa. So, clearly there is an element of love considering there are at least THREE relationships throughout the whole play. This makes a lot more side stories to the play, which can engage readers in more than one theme in the play, which they may enjoy.

 Comedy 

It's not seen as funny now, but The Merchant of Venice was actually supposed to be a comedy, in fact, some aspects of there to purely be funny, like Portia's boxes was all supposed to be funny, Shylock losing in the end is supposed to be funny, but it is actually interesting to some people to be able to see what comedy was like in the Victorian era.  Prejudices 

We can clearly see from start to end that Antonio and multiple other characters are prejudice against Shylock, because of his Religion, while now these COMPLETELY unacceptable, back then it wouldn't have been such a big deal, hence why it was in the play, it is sad reading how Shylock loses on multiple occasions; his daughter leaving, him being disrespected and him losing the court case to Antonio, it is however, it is good to be able to see how people were treated back then, that however, does not change the fact that it is still bad.