throughout his plays, but there is usually one central theme that controls the play. In The Merchant of Venice, there are two different father- daughter relationships, Shylock and his daughter Jessica, as well as Portia and her dead father. Though both relationships ended in favor of the daughters and the bonds displayed was that of control and rebellion, the two daughters and fathers were not the same. Portia, a beautiful and rich young woman, has found her fate to be doomed by her fathers will, she is to…
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