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How far is Shylock’s Jewishness shown by Shakespeare to be responsible for his actions and attitudes in the Merchant of Venice?
Title: How far is Shylock’s Jewishness shown by Shakespeare to be responsible for his actions and attitudes in the Merchant of Venice?
Category: Literature / English
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How far is Shylock’s Jewishness shown by Shakespeare to be responsible for his actions and attitudes in the Merchant of Venice?
The Merchant of Venice
English GCSE coursework
One of the reasons Shakespeare’s plays have always been popular is because of their appeal to different audiences. In the Merchant of Venice Shakespeare produces a quite intricate play bringing up the question of racism and morality for some of the more educated members of Elizabethan audience, whereas for others, mainly the ill-educated groundlings, it is simply a tale of an evil Jew who eventually receives his …showed first 75 words of 1792 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1792 total…an amount of unnecessary inhumanity present in him, for instance his over enthusiastic pleasure in the pain of Antonio in scene III:1 “I’ll plague him, I’ll torture him – I am glad of it” and his want of his own daughter dead, that is there simply to invigorate a malice from the audience stemmed from a hatred that can be traced back through medieval scare-stories to the very beginnings of Jews arriving in England.
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