The Merchant of Venice is one of the most successful works written by the famous British playwright William Shake?speare, and the discussion of the Jew-Shylock has always been a focus in literary circles. Shylock is v...
Compared with the other characters in The Merchant of Venice,Shylock seems to be totally an outsider and alien of Venice which is because he is considered to be the“Other”in the eyes of the other Venetians as a resu...
For centuries, various miserly figures have been portrayed both in Chinese and alien literature. Shylock and Jia Ren are such characters in two famous plays. This thesis explores and analyses the differences in their ...
The character of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice is both intriguing and compelling. Hateful and greedy as he is on the onehand, yet suffered and pathetic on the other. Shakespeare is quite considerate in creating th...
Words like money,commerce,wealth,will come to our mind fi rst as soon as the Jews are referred.Undoubtedly,they are skilled in business.As a rich Jew,Shylock with whom we are very familiar is the most conspicuous char...
Shylock was depicted as a greedy vicious Usurer who cared about money or profit over everything by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice,while this paper intends to speak in defence of seemingly selfish Shylock.Throug...
Shylock has long been regarded as a mean, cruel and inhuman usurer. And most of the criticism he suffered is neither right nor impartial. Viewed from the function of Shylock's character depiction in the play, combined...
The Merchant of Venice is one of the most outstanding comedies of Shakespeare. The story happened in Venice in 16th century. Shylock is a typical character in this play. Shylock was looked down upon and humiliated by ...
This paper attempts to explore how Shylock in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1995) and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (2003) were victimized who became victimizer later to heal the...
The Merchant of Venice is one of the most contradictory plays of William Shakespeare.Through presenting and studying the tragedy nature of Shylock,this thesis attempts to illustrate the tragic nature of Merchant of Ve...