philosophy.
In order to help Bassanio to meet the beautiful girl Portia of a rich family, Antonio borrowed 3000 pounds form Shylock, a loan sharking. He also signed an agreement that if he could not pay back the money, he will cut a pound of flesh of his chest. All the capital of Antonio was on the sea, and his merchant ship could not return on time, so Shylock took him to court. The court`s coordination was not effective, because malicious Shylock did not want the triplicate or even tenfold of compensation, he only wanted a pound of flesh. In court, Portia disguised as a male layer to defend for Antonio. Using her talents and knowledge, she makes Shylock to cancel his requirement of fresh as well as the debt. Moreover, he has to give all his fortune to his eloped daughter Jessica and his son-in-law Lorenzo. In terms of law, both parties of the contract have the freedom to make agreement and the content of the contract is the product and reflection of the thoughts of both parties, but an important precondition is that the content must obey social regulations, or the contract is invalid. Obviously, when Shylock evilly set Antonio up by designing the malicious punishment to Antonio`s failure of obeying the contract, he also got enmeshed in a web of his own spinning.
In spite of Shylock that got the end of nothing for his over-greedy, Portia`s father customized three cases in gold, silver and lead separately for his dear daughter`s marriage, which placed death`s head, a picture of simpleton and a picture of Portia. It was carved on the golden box: [Who chose me will get all desires.”In the paper is: [Not all that glitters is gold, the words of ancients is not cheating; many people give away for whole life, but they only see my