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Shane St. Pierre
10/3/08
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Professor Jenkins

Christopher Marlowe would view Shakespe ares The Merchant of Venice as a diluted version of his own brilliant work, The Jew of Malta. Marlow would both accent with many of Shakespeares own adaptations to his own work and rally him for polluting his finely tuned stereotypical characters. Since there are virtual eternal parades between the two works, Marlow would no doubt appreciate whatever of Shakespeares altercations to what would have originally been his ideas, while at the uniform time resenting the fact that Shakespeare eloquently transformed his raw tangible into something seemingly far greater. The most striking similarity seems to be between the characters of Barabbas and Shylock.
The character of Barabbas in Marlowes the Jew of Malta seemed to be the complete embodi ment of every harsh stereotype of not tho the Jewish people but all of mankind. The opening chance of the The Jew of Malta revolves around Barabbas counting his vast quantity of wealth, and greedily haughty the people from which each type of wealth came from. As for those Samites and the men if Uz / That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece / Here I have pursed their paltry silverishlings. / Fie, what a trouble tis to count this trash! (1.1.



4-7) The fact that Barabbas dismisses the piles of silver coins as paltry portrays his enormous greed. Barabbass whole doctrine on life centers on wealth and greed:
The innocent groom that never fingered a groat
Would make a miracle of thus much coin;
But he whose steel-barred coffers are crammed full,
And all his lifetime hath tired,
Wearying his fingers ends with telling it,
Would in his sequence be loath to labour so,
And for a pound to fret himself to death. (1.1.12-18)

Here Barabbas comments that although he knows a person of a start out social class would view this wealth as infinitely vast and enough for him to retire and live comfortably, he himself turns his...If you require to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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