Author : Florence Amit
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1468586343
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Book Synopsis Three Caskets of Interpretation by : Florence Amit
Download or read book Three Caskets of Interpretation written by Florence Amit and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet forces the sanguine Gertrude to regard herself in the mirror of his understanding and to compare two sovereigns. She is deeply affected by what she is made to see. Such an experience Shakespeare would have his audience undergo when he presents a Silver casket of Christian zeal to their representative in The Merchant of Venice. Like Gertrude, the Prince of Arragon is so particularly confident that he deserves all that he desires (not least, the consummation of his suit for the heiress Portia) that he fails to notice that a silvered casket is, primarily, a box with a reflective surface. Had he but observed the vain man mirrored there, he might have been saved the embarrassment of finding the idiot inside.