In shakespeare’s “the merchant of venice”

what further complicated jessica’s proposed elopement

The aspect that further complicated Jessica's elopement is that she also converted to Christianity.

Explanation:

Jessica is Shylock's daughter in the Merchant of Venice and Shylock's family is Jewish. He is made to seem greedy and vengeful and Jessica's elopement in defiance of her father makes her seem more ignoble as she elopes for her love of Lorenzo and decides to convert to Christianity. This reflects the antisemitism that was popular during Elizabethan times in England. Also, Jessica steals money (ducats) from her father as she elopes and therefore counters his greed but also makes her father angry and he takes out his vengeance on Antonio (the Merchant of Venice) who owes him money.  

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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