"Thou Stick'st a Dagger in me" : The Merchant of Venice についての一考察

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Despite the fact that The Merchant of Venice refers not to Shylock but to Antonio, Shylock has attracted the audience and readers of The Merchant more than any other character in the play. Shylock has been described variously from a comic villain to a scapegoat. One critic even describes his role as peripheral. However, without the confrontation between Antonio and Shylock which climaxes at the court scene, the play would collapse. There are many causes which make Shylock seek Antonio's life. Among them is Jessica's elopement. What is important with her elopement is not only Salarino and Solanio tease Shylock with her elopement but even Tubal, a Jewish usurer, torments him with her conduct. Without Tubal's scene, Shylock's attempted murder would only be a fruit of either an ideological conflict between Judaism and Christianity or Shylock's rivalry against Antonio on business. Because Tubal torments him, however, Shylock's suffering shifts from a social problem to an individual problem. Shylock's defeat at the end of the trial scene appeals to us because by shedding light on the inside of Shylock, the scene with Tubal turns him from a champion of the Jew to one of us.
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