“What's Eating Gilbert Grape?” is a rich, memorable and stunningly acted story of desire colliding with responsibility. It catches many an eye with its dramatic, yet solemn storyline and creative technical features. The film’s major themes are well presented throughout the plot, largely due to the marvellous talents of the majority of the cast. Many people are drawn to this film because of their ability to relate personally to the major themes and issues …showed first 75 words of 874 total…

…showed last 75 words of 874 total…and Venice. It is obvious that, through the contrasts, Shakespeare was making some sort of statement about the way in which different sexes live their lives. By creating such different worlds, Shakespeare indicated that perhaps Venice symbolised the male population and Belmont symbolised the female population – two very contrasting groups. By using Bassanio and Portia as the main characters, Shakespeare was also perhaps relating to one of his own long-distance love affairs. Words: 894 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**