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            Critical Evaluation of "The Merchant of Venice".
             Task 5: At the end of the play Shylock is a broken, isolated, unhappy figure. He is totally alone. Write about the way Shylock is gradually isolated and deserted.
             From the outset of "the Merchant of Venice", a play by William Shakespeare there is one man who is truly despised. That man is Shylock the Jewish money lender. The hatred towards him is based Shylock's religion and based on the way he made money by lending sums of money and charging interest which was a complete outrage at the time. As a result of the lifetime of hate he had received Shylock was Spiteful, angry & filled with hate towards the people in Venice, whom where mostly Christians. His own hatred for others working in conjunction with his greed for money would prove to be his downfall. In the book Shylock has two contrasts, he is first shown as a wealthy Jewish money lender but by the end of the play he is no longer wealthy but more shocking is the fact he is no longer a Jew. Only one thing remains the same for Shylock and that is he is still absolutely despised and a figure of ridicule.
             Shylock's downfall starts from the moment he lends money to Antonio, a Wealthy Christian who has openly and publicly ridiculed and degraded Shylock, his people and his beliefs. As the two meet for the first time Shylock narrates to the reader what he is thinking "I hate him for he is a Christian." Shylock also tells us he has another reason for hating Antonio and that is because Antonio "brings down the rate of usance for us in Venice" by lending money without charging interest. With the hatred Shylock had towards Antonio he made up a deed, an agreement which stated Shylock would not charge any interest on the loan, but would take a pound of Antonio's flesh if he wasn't to pay on the set date. Antonio accepted this freely as he felt confident he would have the money on time and he also thought Shylock wasn't being serious, but as the play progresses its clear to see that Shylock was being completely serious and that he would rather have the pound of flesh than his money back.


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