story of merchant of venice
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OVERVIEW OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Bassanio , a gentleman in venice misuses all the money he has on luxury.He has no more while he needs it in order to marry Portia a young girl whose parents die and all the wealth is left to her .Portia's father had initially put in place mechanisms to ensure a reliable person marries her daughter. Bassanio turns to his friend Antonio a money lender and businessman to lend him some money in order to cater for the expenses of Portia .It happens that Antonio has got no money but he resolves to request some from Shylock a very adamant and inconsiderate money lender.At first he does not want to lend out the money but later on demands to boe given a pound of flesh from antonio if he defaults the agreement .Later Antonio's ships sink with goods and he is broke and cannot pay the debt .Shylock demands that he is put behind bars .He send out information about the same to Bassanio who had won the challenge to marry portia .On the judgement day Antonio's lawyer fails to turn up and a different wise young lady turns up to rescue Antonio . She starts by trying to ask Shylock to take thee times what was borrowed but he refused saying he only needed a pond of flesh .The court agrees that a pound of flesh should be taken from Antonio.But before this happened the young lawyer demands that no blood should come out since it was not on the agreement for that to happen .The court concurs with that and then it is the turn of Shylock to have his wages .He fails to do that since blood must be shed for him to have his flesh.
Since he failed the court decides to throw him in for lacking humanity .And the people who then loved Antonio marvel and wonder how brave the young lawyer was .It dawns to Bassanio that the young lawyer was actually his wife .