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What is the contrast in the character of shylock and jessica that you find in the act?​

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Jessica is doubly distinguished. UNLIKE her father, Shylock, she is said to be gentle; at once NOBLE and gentile. According to Mary Metzger, representations of Jessica turn on ALTERNATING CHARACTERIZATIONS of her as a latent Christian and as a racialized and thus unintegrable Jew. ...



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