"Daughters Will Love Like You Do"

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Using John Mayer's song, "Daughters," as inspiration, the paper examines how family relationships, particularly that of a father and daughter, which is a woman's first "love" relationship, can influence her behaviors in future romantic relationships. It examines how "The Merchant of Venice" chronicles the relationships of two father-daughter pairs, showing how a father's selfishness can be ruinous to his daughter's marriage, whereas a close father-daughter bond can ensure a woman a better chance of a happy, healthy marriage.

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"Jessica portends the negative impact that her folly for revenge and escape will have on her marriage when she says "But love is blind, and lovers cannot see/The pretty follies that themselves commit," (2.5.36-37). Despite having everything she thinks she wanted - a life free from her father's house, and marriage to a man she loves - Jessica's actions will always hang over her life like a dark cloud. As she and Lorenzo sit and sing together near the end of the play, they "uneasily equate their love" to doomed couples such as Trolius and Cressida, Jason and Medea, and Pyramus and Thisbe, "all ominous archetypes of bonds somehow shattered in conjunction with attempts to invalidate family or cultural allegiances" (Boose 337)."

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