Question

(V)
Racial prejudice is a major theme in the preceding scenes. However, Jessica
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is portrayed as an exception. Use examples from the text to demonstrate
how Jessica is shown to be different from her father and others of her
community.​

Answer 1

Jessica was a sensitive person and was not able to tolerate her father's illogical temperament and the different view on religion.

• The question has been asked from the play Merchant of the Venice by William Shakespeare.
• Jessica was Shylock's daughter, but she was ashamed of her father. She experiences the environment of her father's home suffocating and almost unbearable. She was different and followed her own course of actions.
• Jessica claimed that if she married Lorenzo, she will become a Christian. anyone who wants to convert for theological purposes will probably see herself as a Christian already, but Jessica sought only the legal and social inclusion that would be provided by a marriage to a Christian man.

• However, Launcelot still insisted that Jessica will suffer eternal curse because father's doings are to be laid on the girls. Faith and thus salvation was also simply inheritable rather than ideological for Launcelot.