How is Jessica unlike her father? What image of Jessica do you form
after reading this extract?
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Jessica is the daughter of the Jew, Shylock, but a daughter who is ashamed of having that man as her father. She finds the atmosphere of her father’s home to be suffocating and almost intolerable. She is sensitive girl having an artistic temperament; and she is unable to endure the narrow-mindedness, the miserliness, and the tyrannical nature of her father. Although her father is a fanatical Jew who is intolerant of Christians, she falls in love with a Christian and runs away from home with a bag full of her father’s money and jewels. Her conduct in running away from home and stealing her father’s cash and jewels is certainly objectionable in the extreme.
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Jessica realized that the only way that she could marry and be with her love, Lorenzo, would be to run away. Also, the reason that Jessica ran away with Shylock's jewels and money is because she would not be able to survive without some sort of money to keep her going.
Jessica abandons Shylock and steals from his fortune.
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