I love all of your videos! You're always so clear and concise. I do home school for my GCSEs, and I will be completing my exams this summer. Your videos have helped me so much with my English Literature studies. Thank you so much for all the effort you put into helping others
Hmm that's a really good suggestion and point. In general, mercy is different from justice in that mercy grants exemption from punishment out of kindness (which often requires one to look beyond the confines of law), whereas justice as conventionally defined treats people by the word of the law. There is, of course, a possibility to argue that while administering justice we could (and should!) practice mercy, e.g. sentencing a robber to a reduced prison term because s/he comes from an impoverished background. I hope this clarifies somewhat?
@@JenChan Yes it did, thank you very very much. It's just that I was analyzing how mercy is shown in Portia's "quality of mercy" speech and got confused whether it was depicting mercy as a divine quality or actually just exposing the Christian characters' hypocrisy as they did not show mercy to Shylock 😅
Hi - I actually do touch on mercy in this blog post: hyperbolit.com/2020/06/06/what-the-merchant-of-venice-tells-us-about-racism-and-prejudice/ Perhaps you could check this out and see if it helps.
If I, as a Christian, were to go to, say, Saudi Arabia and conduct myself in similar way to Shylock, I dare say I might find Islamic law unfavourable to me. I think in Shakespeare's time this was a normal state of affairs in European countries. While we are these days more "enlightened", it is still the reality in quite a large number of states around the world to this day. Even so, it remains popular to hand-wring about long-gone eras were the self-serving Christians held the status quo.
I love all of your videos! You're always so clear and concise. I do home school for my GCSEs, and I will be completing my exams this summer. Your videos have helped me so much with my English Literature studies. Thank you so much for all the effort you put into helping others
Ahh that absolutely makes my day to hear - thank you for the lovely feedback, and best of luck with your exams! :) Keep up the hard and good work xxx
This video is amazing!!!! I can't thank you enough, this has helped me understand the theme of justice so much better.
You're welcome - I'm glad it helped. Thanks for watching :)
You are so underrated. Thank you for this, it helped me a lot with my summer homework!!!
you're so welcome, Maria!
Thank you so much
I've struggled to fid good resources on the play
You're so welcome - and I'm really pleased to hear this has helped you :)
THANK YOUUUU saving my grades as always
You're so welcome - glad it helps!
you articulated exactly what i felt thankyou
So pleased to hear that - thanks for watching!
If it isn't too much trouble, would you be able to do a video on the theme of mercy in the merchant of Venice because I always confuse it with justice
Hmm that's a really good suggestion and point. In general, mercy is different from justice in that mercy grants exemption from punishment out of kindness (which often requires one to look beyond the confines of law), whereas justice as conventionally defined treats people by the word of the law. There is, of course, a possibility to argue that while administering justice we could (and should!) practice mercy, e.g. sentencing a robber to a reduced prison term because s/he comes from an impoverished background. I hope this clarifies somewhat?
@@JenChan Yes it did, thank you very very much. It's just that I was analyzing how mercy is shown in Portia's "quality of mercy" speech and got confused whether it was depicting mercy as a divine quality or actually just exposing the Christian characters' hypocrisy as they did not show mercy to Shylock 😅
can you do justice vs mercy?
Hi - I actually do touch on mercy in this blog post: hyperbolit.com/2020/06/06/what-the-merchant-of-venice-tells-us-about-racism-and-prejudice/
Perhaps you could check this out and see if it helps.
If I, as a Christian, were to go to, say, Saudi Arabia and conduct myself in similar way to Shylock, I dare say I might find Islamic law unfavourable to me. I think in Shakespeare's time this was a normal state of affairs in European countries. While we are these days more "enlightened", it is still the reality in quite a large number of states around the world to this day. Even so, it remains popular to hand-wring about long-gone eras were the self-serving Christians held the status quo.