Q: 1. Discuss questions of genre that The Merchant of Venice raises. What elements of tragedy does it include? What are its comic aspects? Is Shylock a tragic victim or a comic villain, like Marlowe's Barabas?
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The genre of the play The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare is tragicomedy. It is comedy because some of the critics declared it as a comedy, because of happy endings, overabundance of light-hearted jokes, and true love. Ultimately, by some of the critics this play is classified as tragedy because one of the main character, Shylock, looks pretty much like a tragic character. In the play love and friendship makes this play as comedy, but the character of Shylock, who is a cruel moneylender, gives this play a touch of tragedy. This play ends with neither joy nor with misery.
This play includes some of the elements of tragedy. As a tragedy, it focuses on the collapse of the Jewish moneylender, Shylock, who inevitably becomes a Christen at the conclusion of the play, and law makes him guilty and in punishment he has to submit his assets.
The comic aspects of the play are, happy endings, plethora of light-hearted jokes, and true love. The protagonist, Antonio, the Christian businessman, who was about to be killed by Jewish moneylender, Shylock, but in the conclusion of this play, Portia, the lady of Bassanio, saves Antonio's life and proves her pure love for Bassanio. Antonio also gets his money from those ships which he loses in the ocean.
Shylock is a combination of both tragic victim and comic villain in The Merchant of Venice. He is a tragic victim of discrimination and victimized by Antonio and his daughter, Jessica. Shylock's greedy, merciless nature is what makes him a comic villain, which helps drive the plot of the play.
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