Free Merchant of Venice Essays: The Villainous Shylock :: Merchant Venice Essays

Many commonwealth be villainous in the way of life they act, and their villainous acts may be grow in the desire to destroy others, or in the hopes of elevating themselves. Many people may only act "villainous" in reaction to the way they have been treated in the past. goldlender the Jew is the villain or opposer in the play The Merchant of Venice. loan shark mistreats Antonio the Christian, his daughter, Jessica and Launcelot.   The first person loan shark mistreats, is Launcelot. He mistreats this servant by complaining behind Launcelots back of his laziness. shylock says, "The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day More than the wildcat. Drones hive not with me.. ..His borrowed purse." 1   Shylock also acts villainous towards Launcelot by acting belligerent towards him."Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call." 2 Shylock mistreats this man because of his poverty, and because Launc elot is socially beneath him. You also start to wonder somewhat how fair Shylock is, when Launcelot is deciding whether or not to leave him.   Shylock also mistreats his make daughter, Jessica. He mistreats her by keeping her as a captive in her own house, not letting her out, and not letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to "Lock up my doors and when you hear the drum... ..But break-dance my houses ears-I mean casements. Let not the sound of shallow foppry enter My severe house." 3   Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little teras". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, even to the point where he complains about all of the money hes spending in a search to find her. "Why, there, there, there, there A diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats in Frankford The curse.. ..ill caboodle stirring but what li ghts o my shoulders no sighs but o my breathing no bust but o my shedding."4   Salerio makes the audience wonder about Shylock, when he raves about when Shylock was calling out, "Oh my ducats, my daughter, my ducats, my daughter.