... people's failures. Yet this is what the readers see Shylock as, since they are used to a story with good and bad characters, protagonists who are usually the nice guys and antagonists who are usually the bad guys. But in a different approach to the "creature" that Salerio labeled Shylock, Shakespeare presents us with the reality of the world. Christians criticize other religions ... ...
... real evidence which convinces the audience of this--there's no facts, nothing other than the characters' opinion of him. Hamlet commits certain acts which seem irrational and unexplainable to the antagonists in the play, however, to the audience, all of these acts are perfectly explainable and rational. This is because the audience knows the situation that Hamlet is in, having had ... ...
... may be obliged to think of Caesar as the antagonist because his rise to power was a threat to the Roman Republic, yet one may see Brutus and Cassius as the antagonists because they are essentially murderers. This confusion is also common to people dealing with the true assassination of Caesar. The assassination of Caesar was considered for hundreds of years to ... ...
