ENG220H1 Lecture : ENG220 - Merchant of Venice
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Bond: bound, uniting or restraining force, force uniting or cementing, agreement or engagement binding on him who makes him. Movement away from material act to kind of social. Legal and technical senses deed, binding to pay certain money . Pertaining to slaves, one in bondange to superior. Portia is bound by will of her father. Defines bonds of erotic and conjugal relationship: bassanio-portia, Defines obligations of government to citizenship through apparatus of the law. Both merchants, venture capitalists, bound together legally. Shylock right to antonio"s flesh around his heart. Heir of body, link of flesh shylock to jessica: flesh and blood. Husband and wife, marriage, one flesh, share body. 4. 1 portia: nearest the merchant"s heart (court) 3. 2 bassanio choosing casket tlel me whre is fancy bred, or in the heart, or in the head. 3. 1 antonio: i"ll pay it presently with all my heart. 5. 1 graziano: i could not for my heart deny it him (passion)
