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Power Lines. Examining Power Structures in the Relationships of The Merchant of Venice. Activity 1—Scenarios.

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  1. Power Lines • Examining Power Structures in the Relationships of The Merchant of Venice

  2. Activity 1—Scenarios Scenario 1: A teenage girl’s parents are out to dinner for the evening and she will be left alone. She knows the combination to her parents’ safe and also is aware of the 1,000 in savings that they have stashed there along with jewelry and other precious items. She plans on stealing the money and running off with her boyfriend. Scenario 2: The best man and maid of honor at a wedding fall in love, but have to keep it a secret from the bride and groom until after the ceremony so that they don’t ruin the big day. The best man proposes, but has to keep anyone from finding out. Scenario 3: A rich woman wants to date and marry, but to keep her from being cheated out of her money her father has created a test for her prospective boyfriends to pass. Out of all of her suitors, she has fallen in love with one man, but must decide how much to help him pass the test. Scenario 4: A man borrows money from his best friend to use to start his business. The friend loses all of his other money and has a loan shark coming after him and so asks his friend to help him.

  3. Power Line (Continuum)

  4. Activity 2—Tableaux Vivants • Antonio/Bassanio—Act 1.1.120-190 • Shylock/Jessica—2.5 • Lorenzo/Jessica 1—2.6.27-70 • Bassanio/Portia 1—3.2.25-179 • Gratiano/Nerissa—3.2.190-221 • Lorenzo/Jessica 2—5.1.1-95 and 312-316 • Bassanio/Portia 2—5.1.143-305 • Gratiano/Nerissa2—5.1.143-305

  5. Insider/Outsider • Example: From Othello • Act 1, Scene 1 • RODERIGO • Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate. • IAGO • Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city, In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man, I know my price, I am worth no worse a place: But he; as loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them, with a bombast circumstance Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war; And, in conclusion, Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he, 'I have already chose my officer.' And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knowsMore than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise, Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election: And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proofAt Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'dBy debitor and creditor: this counter-caster, He, in good time, must his lieutenant be, And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.

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