"Same sex friendships are stronger than any other relationships" Discuss with reference to 'The Merchant of Venice'.

Same sex friendships can be very similar or very different to other relationships. There are considerations such as loyalty, respect and ability to communicate in all relationships but the way in which you go about them can be different. For example, the same sex friendship has no defensive barriers that we tend to put up when confronting the opposite sex. After all its only natural to be defensive when with the opposite sex, people become …showed first 75 words of 804 total…

…showed last 75 words of 804 total…he ironically broke his pledge to his wife. Based on the chain of events within The Merchant of Venice, same sex bonds seem to be of greater importance. Whether this is the case in real life will always be debateable because the amount of counterexamples is endless. I personally believe that all types of bonds are different therefore it becomes difficult to compare, especially when things such as physical relationships are part of the equation.