The Interpretation of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
Name:李娅 Class: Literature (3)
[ My own views: revenge spirit and the suggestion to Chine]
Abstract: The Merchant of Venice was the masterpiece of William Shakespeare, who was the greatest of all English authors and especially a feeble reprentative of English drama in 16th and 17th century England. In this work Shakespeare gave a vivid picture of the Jews in Christian society. The Merchant of Venice is one of the four comedies written by William Shakespeare and Shylock is the most characteristic person shaped in this comedy. I will address mylf to three parts in this paper: the social background of the work, character analysis of Shylock and appreciative remarks about Shylock. In this paper,I’d like to focus on analyzing character of Shylock from the suffering of Jews and his revenge spirit.
Key words: Jews victim tragic character revenge spirit
I. The social background of the work
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The Merchant of Venice was written by Shakespeare at the end few years of the 1590s. During thes years,British social contradictions gradually sharpen up. Shakespeare began to feel the contradictions between his humanistic ideals and British reality, so the later comedies that he wrote after 1596 were converted to enrich with both optimistic cadence and social satire factors.混响英文 The Merchant of Venic is one of the most outstanding comedies of Shakespeare which were enriched with social satire. The author’s creative attitude towards the works became to change becau that British social contradictions gradually sharpen up.
At that time,the oppressions that Jews were suffering in British, no less than that Jews suffered in any other countries in Europe. From 1290.Jews began to be expelled from British and until 1649 in which the British Commonwealth was established ,this injunction was abolished . Jews lived in British at that time lived a difficult life. They were suppresd riously by Christian ,so they dared to allocate ast in ca their asrt being expropriated and they have to make living by lending out money at an exorbitant rate of interest. We all know The Merchant of Venice was created in 1596 and Shylock is
a typical affronted Jew in this play.
The readers of 无敌破坏王片尾曲The Merchant of Venice often regard Shylock as a gainful,greedy and cruel money-lender and conspue him. How many of us really know the social background? So before I analysis the character,I’d like to emerge the social background. I hold Shylock is a creation of circumstance.餐厅英语对话
II. Analyzing character of Shylock
bye bye loveA.Generally speaking,Shylock always left a cruel, greedy and gainful money-lender image to the readers of The Merchant of Venice.
1). Shylock is a reprentative of the cruel and avaricious money-lenders . In the play,Shylock doesn't demand more than veral times payments, but a uless piece of flesh. From it ca we can e that Shylock has a strong n of revenge ,which means once he catched a chance,he will insanely revenge to anyone who adver to him. Setting traps to Antonio step by step,he just wants a uless piece of flesh. Except that fl
esh,what el could he get? While Shylock said it’s a super fishing bait. How cold and heartless he is!
2).Moreover, Shylock is more of a mir than a beast. He lets a treacherous lackey guarding the door, but feel little cure. Even his rvants ran to his enemy becau of too much hunger. Likewi ,by the end,when Shylock failed to the court , he wants to three times payments back, which revealed his natural greed and the true face of an avaricious mir again.ropen
lan是什么B. He is a pitiful victim,in other words,Shylock is a creation of circumstance.match
1).From objective perspective,Shylock has reasonable and complex motivations to the Antonio’s revenge. In fact ,Antonio is a obstacle both for Shylock’s fortune eking and for his own source of income,Shylock must cha Antonio out of his sight . 登记官
2). He is an affronted Jew who suffered much in the hands of the Christians. At that time, Shylock dared to allocate ast in ca his asrt being expropriated and he had to make
living by lending out money at an exorbitant rate of interest. I sympathy for his racial oppression and humiliation.
3).At the ending of The Merchant of Venice, all the characters got a happy ending except Shylock. I can not say that Shylock is not the tragic character in the comedy. It ems that a ries of misfortunes happened to him,from his rvants run away to his enemy,then his daughter eloped with her lover carrying Shylock’s property, at the ending even lost his own part of the surplus property. He played a double penalty and nearly all the evils and misfortunes concentrate on one character--- Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
C.Shylock is a brave avenger who was trying his best to support an oppresd nation’s dignity. Even though he failed to challenge that society, I admire his revenge spirit very much.
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1).He is a fair-and-square avenger becau it is allowed for him to cut a pound of flesh from Antonio’s body at his age in British. At that time,the contract is legal, while default is i
llegal. The default debtor would have been verely punished. Ancient Rome in the " law of the twelve tables " provides that creditors have the right to ll the debtor as slavery, even a number of creditors could cut the debtor into veral pieces. In contrast, Shylock asked for a pound of flesh is not the most cruel.
