An Analysis of the Image of Shylock

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedy in the world. While Shylock is a classical figure and analyzed a gain and again. Before, especially in 16th century, many people think Shylock was a greedy, selfish, cruel and so on, and his final result is a reason that this play is called comedy. As times goes by, people begin to re-analyze Shylock. They found when we analyze this play from Shylock’s angle, it is a tragedy. Shylock also has other characters which was not discovered before and gradually accepted.This article attempts to analyze Shylock in a positive way.Apparently Shylock is a true villain,but with careful analysis on the social background,it's obvious that such viewpoint is quite biased.Thus justice and fairness should be returned to Shylock.