The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare's light comedy

If it is on a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, in a certain place,

You can't return a certain amount to me as promised,

So, make such a clause -

In case you lose your covenant, you have to do as I please,

Cut off any part of your body

A whole pound of meat. in Sherlock

"The Merchant of Venice" is not a long work in all of Shakespeare's works, similar to the "cookies" in online literature, with today's eyes, the story setting is not unique, nothing more than the reunion ending of "good has good, evil has evil", which meets the audience's expectations for truth, goodness and beauty.

And the reason why the charm of "The Merchant of Venice" has not diminished so far, I think, is its cruelty and bloodshed. Sherlock in the play is a completely ambitious, real villain, who speaks with a dignified face to justify the name of the Jews, but does something harmful to nature.

There is a line in "V-Word Vendetta" that people often use angelic appearances to hide the devil-like heart. Sherlock didn't even bother to pretend, he pointed out that the charity Anthony, a bad guy who ruined his reputation, used jokes to trick them into their sincere affection when signing the treaty.

Sherlock once said a long quote, that is, "What is all this for?" I am a Jew.

Don't the Jews have eyes?

Are the Jews missing hands, short of facial features and limbs, unconscious, fleshless, fleshless?

Didn't the Jews eat the same thing?

If you are stabbed and shot, you will be injured, you will be sick, you will be sick, you will be healed, you will be treated with medicine, you will be cold and hot all year round— what is the difference between you and Christians?

If you prick us with a needle, don't we have to bleed too?

Tickle us, don't we giggle too?

You murder us with poison, don't we just die?

So if you bully us, won't we take revenge?

We are like you elsewhere, so at this point, we are not separated from each other! ”

Personally, I am very fond of this paragraph, which is mainly a rhetorical question, and seems to be questioning, but in fact, he himself has been answered by all the answers. In his thinking, it is very likely that the indifference of society and the discrimination of people have created his bad reputation, but he did not think of turning back to introspection, his miserly greed, his fierce heart, are the reasons for his reputation.

In short, as the only villain in the whole play, Sherlock loses the opportunity to defeat Anthony, loses his daughter Gisica, and loses his property, but there is no doubt that the character "Sherlock" is successful, and he has become synonymous with money, miserliness, and ruthlessness.

In addition, this short five-act play actually contributed three pairs of lovers, Positsia and Bassany, Lorenzo and Gisica, Neelisa and Grexin. The first is that PoHicia has the inheritance left by her father, using three boxes of gold and silver lead to attract relatives, and the second is that Bo Xixia and the maid Neliza dress up as men to relieve Antony and Bassany. Bo Xixia, the image of this intelligent, beautiful, humorous, and self-insisted choice of the woman suddenly jumped on the paper, but it made the partner next to her look a little eclipsed.

I think that this "Shakespeare light comedy" can be passed on to this day, its charm is self-evident, and to this day, reading "The Merchant of Venice" is another completely different feeling.