Shylock: A Villain or a Victim?

In "Venetian merchants", William Shakespeare seems to invite audiences to hate Sherlock often, but William Shakespeare probably invites audiences to feel the opposite feeling. Sherlock, not his own daughter Jessica who abandoned him as a Christian man as his Lorenzo, but an incredibly hungry, materialistic person who only cares about his coins It turned out that it was. In fact it is easy to understand why people think of Sherlock as a symbol of the devil throughout the process of a merchant in Venice but perhaps William Shakespeare wants to portray Sherlock as a victim of misunderstanding.

His personality is complicated and ambiguous, so it can hardly be said that Sherlock is a complete villain or victim. However, for most dramas, it was difficult to regard Sherlock as jealous, thirsty and as a cruel villain. Shakespeare deliberately depicts Sherlock as a regular Jew who is greedy and addicted to money, like most Jewish people at the time, he can be regarded as a victim did. Shy rock is written with great overstatement and exaggeration. Even if Sherlock first appeared, his first sentence was "Thousands ... Read more

Whether individual audience Sherlock is a victim or a bad person is a controversial event, but how Shakespeare shows this role is the key to opening the door of a Venetian merchant. Many people are evil in their actions and their evil behavior may be rooted in the desire to destroy others or promote themselves. In dramas and movies, villains are often conflicts of stories, which is basically a threat to central people. You will see that Sherlock shows the characteristics of the evil one.

Among the Venetian merchants, Sherlock was portrayed as a victim and a villain. Shakespeare showed that he was the villain at first as he was mentioned in a conversation between Saranio and Salerio. They expressed him as a "dog Jew" and we automatically considered him as a bad person in the drama. "It was incredible, to cut a dog in my throat, told to vomit my Jewish Fuada." He said Antonio looked down at him and spit him out. , He became his friend. It is for simple reasons that Jews hinder him since doing business. I remember in the recent history of the Holocaust, we feel sympathy for him