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Merchant Of Venice: Shylock The Antagonist?
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In The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, there appears Shylock.
He is a Jew, that much we are told in the cast list. But, as the play
unfolds Shylock is seen to be the villian. He is protrayed as being cold,
unbending, and evil. But is he? Is Shylock really the antagonist in this
pl ....
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audience know in an aside that he hates Antonio. He hates him for having
hindered him in business and for having humiliated him in public by
spitting on him and calling him names such as "dog" and "cutthroat Jew".
Shylock tells the audience he hopes to exact revenge on Antonio both for
his own humiliation and for the persecution that the Jews have long
suffered at the hands of the Christians. I hate him for he is a Christian;.
. . If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat t.... |
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