Parent child- Jessica and Shylock + Portia and her deceased father Despite the lack of a strong paternal figure in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, two separate father-daughter relationships play an integral role in the central plot of the play. The strained relationship of Venetian moneylend...

Jim Burden has recently lost both of his parents and he travels by cross-country train to live with his grandparents on the Nebraska frontier. He finds a Bohemian family as his neighbors. Where he meets an Immigrant girl named Ántonia whom he will respect and think a lot of. Together we will explor...