An author is not depicted by the way he chooses his stratagems, but how he targets his audience is what counted first. The Hostility shown toward Jews as a religious or social minority. In the play, Merchant of Venice, is where Shakespeare needs to be taught some etiquette's.
Over the Bard’s era a general anti-Semitic stance that was widespread among the majority of the British. As a result, Shakespeare seems to have incorporated that same attitude towards Jews in the play with his treatment and portrayal of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender.
The means through which a character is presented and portrayed can reveal a great deal about his or her personality.
Shylock is undoubtedly shown to be greedy; shrewd i.e. he was given a anti-Semitic status. The way others look down at him suggests an inferior social status. And the plot that he agrees to give money to Bassanio only after Antonio agrees to capitulate a pound of his own flesh in case of no remittance of amount upon dead line.
His demand of a pound of flesh provokes the reader to adopt a rather disgusted and negative attitude towards the Jew. Because Shylock is portrayed to be so sinister and wicked in his ways, Shakespeare seems to set the readers against him. Such an alienation of the readers only adds to the anti-Semitic views.
Furthermore, Shylock's dealings with other characters seem to make him the villain. His numerous insults and utter hatred of Antonio and Christianity creates an inaccurate representation of Jews, which can be construed as anti-Semitic. Even his daughter, Jessica, wants to discard Shylock; this exaggerates him in dark shades. Lancelot is willing to assume greater responsibilities and more work as a servant under Bassanio.
His cast in the play seems to portray the Jews ways as undesirable people lacking culture or refinement. Despite her rejection of Shylock, In that sense, play accumulates enough testimony to shows how bard has revealed his anti-Semitic stance against Jews.
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