character skech of shylock THE MERCHANT OF VENIC E
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• Shylock plays a negative role of villain in the play. He is a Jew, possessive towards his earnings and selfish too. He is really obedient towards his race of Jews and hates the pivotal role of Antonio in the play as he gives bonds of money without taking interest. Shylock finds Antonio as a grave danger and always think ways to remove his from his path and also got a chance to do so but Portia prevented Shylock from doing so.
• Shylock seems really aggressive because of the cruel behavior done with their race by the Christians. He is tired of being called as a "Dog" by Antonio and other diabolic names too. He gets really angry when betrayed by his own daughter Jessica who stole Jewels and money from Shylock in order to marry Lorenzo.
• He actually has really revengeful in intention against Antonio and always wishes that something bad or worse may happen with him. He also ordered many men to find his daughter Jessica after she stole his money and Also in the play, he wanted to see her dead.
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Shylock is a Jewish moneylender in Venice, who detests and despises Christians.
He makes his money by charging interest on his loans, and dislikes Antonio for not doing so and therefore ruining his business – particularly as Antonio sometimes pays the debts of those who cannot repay their loans in time, and therefore spoils Shylock’s enrichment by taking control of their forfeitures. When he calls Antonio out on the latter’s insults, he merely provokes more insults from the merchant.
He decides to ask for a pound of flesh as his bond from Antonio, apparently as a jest. He is a miser and something of a puritan, having no taste for music or other reveling, starving his servant and letting him wear out his clothes rather than replacing them. Considering Launcelot a spendthrift, he is happy to let him leave to go serve Bassanio, as this will make the latter go through his money more swiftly. Even his daughter considers him cruel.
He flies into a wild passion when she flees his house, taking with her massive amounts of his money, and has her chased after as much if not more for the money than for her own sake. Knowing that Antonio was aware of this abduction, and hearing that the latter is ruined, he is delighted at the possibility of cutting out the merchant’s heart.
He is able to justify revenge on the basis of the bad behavior of Christians. His insistence on the letter of the law will be his undoing, leaving him not only unable to kill Antonio, but losing all the extra money offered him, the return of his principal, and soon forfeiting all of his wealth and his life. He accepts to turn Christian to save his life, but is left ill by the sudden reversal in his fortune. He is not a particularly nice man.