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Scathach vanquished her witch side[/FONT]
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[FONT="Trebuchet MS"]Bassanio got exacty what he wanted for Christmas[/FONT]
Bassanio doesn't deserve one, let alone two. He must die...
First picture could use some ctrl+N
Also, Scathatch should vanquish her human side >.>
Now... where's the Christmas present for Antonio? (Antonio have crush on Bassanio in original play)
Antonio's deep friendship and dependence on Bassanio, his willingness to risk his life on Bassanio's account, and his draining of his own finances to support Bassanio has been read as supporting the theory that Antonio is homosexual.[1] Some people believe that Antonio was just very good friends with Bassanio, and that he was almost like a son. People began to read Antonio as homosexual in the 1950s, but there are many objections.[2] In that time period, the language was much more expressive, so people in the modern day society took Antonio to be homosexual. Modern productions use the theory that Antonio is suffering from his love for Bassanio to explain his melancholic behaviour, but it is not proven.[3]
Many scholars, such as O'Rourke, gather from the writing of Shakespeare that Antonio is gay and in a relationship with Bassanio. Lines by Antonio such as “my person … lie[s] all unlocked to your occasions,†(MOV 1.1.46) seem to allude to a sexual dimension in Antonio's love for Bassanio. However, there is also evidence that the two shared a strictly fraternal, familial bond, as indicated by the line “Bassanio, your most noble kinsman …†(MOV 1.1.60) Other scholars maintain that all attempts to read Shakespeare's characters as gay or straight in terms of the modern understanding of the word are culturally and historically flawed.
Alan Bray’s book Homosexuality in Renaissance England argues that in the time period of The Merchant of Venice's composition, "homosexuality" did not refer to an individual's sexual identity but only to specific sexual acts any individual might engage in. As Bray writes: "To talk of an individual of this period as being or not being 'a homosexual' is an anachronism and ruinously misleading. The temptation to debauchery, from which homosexuality was not clearly distinguished, was accepted as part of the common lot ... homosexuality [as understood in 15th-century England] was a sin 'to which men's natural corruption and viciousness [were] prone' " (16-17, Rainolds qtd. in Bray, 17). According to this argument, although there may have been physical relations between Antonio and Bassanio, to identify Antonio as a homosexual is anachronistic because any such identification draws on present-day beliefs about sexual activity as a correlative of sexual identity rather than accounting for the way male-male sexual relations were understood in the historical-cultural context of the play.
[FONT="Trebuchet MS"]kinda forgot but i do have another one but it looks weird (also i do not have collapse emote)[/FONT]
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