威尼斯商人中夏洛克的人物形象分析

《威尼斯商人中夏洛克的人物形象分析》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在行业资料-天天文库。

1、TheInterpretationofShylockinTheMerchantofVeniceName:李娅Class:Literature(3)[Myownviews:revengespiritandthesuggestiontoChinese]Abstract:TheMerchantofVenicewasthemasterpieceofWilliamShakespeare,whowasthegreatestofallEnglishauthorsandespeciallyafeeblerepresentativeofEnglishd

2、ramain16thand17thcenturyEngland.InthisworkShakespearegaveavividpictureoftheJewsinChristiansociety.TheMerchantofVeniceisoneofthefourcomedieswrittenbyWilliamShakespeareandShylockisthemostcharacteristicpersonshapedinthiscomedy.Iwilladdressmyselftothreepartsinthispaper:thes

3、ocialbackgroundofthework,characteranalysisofShylockandappreciativeremarksaboutShylock.Inthispaper,I’dliketofocusonanalyzingcharacterofShylockfromthesufferingofJewsandhisrevengespirit.Keywords:JewsvictimtragiccharacterrevengespiritI.ThesocialbackgroundoftheworkTheMerchan

4、tofVenicewaswrittenbyShakespeareattheendfewyearsofthe1590s.Duringthesesyears,Britishsocialcontradictionsgraduallysharpenup.ShakespearebegantofeelthecontradictionsbetweenhishumanisticidealsandBritishreality,sothelatercomediesthathewroteafter1596wereconvertedtoenrichwithb

5、othoptimisticcadenceandsocialsatirefactors.TheMerchantofVenicisoneofthemostoutstandingcomediesofShakespearewhichwereenrichedwithsocialsatire.Theauthor’screativeattitudetowardstheworksbecametochangebecausethatBritishsocialcontradictionsgraduallysharpenup.Atthattime,theop

6、pressionsthatJewsweresufferinginBritish,nolessthanthatJewssufferedinanyothercountriesinEurope.From1290.JewsbegantobeexpelledfromBritishanduntil1649inwhichtheBritishCommonwealthwasestablished,thisinjunctionwasabolished.JewslivedinBritishatthattimelivedadifficultlife.They

7、weresuppressedseriouslybyChristian,sotheydaredtoallocateassetincasetheirassertbeingexpropriatedandtheyhavetomakelivingbylendingoutmoneyatanexorbitantrateofinterest.WeallknowTheMerchantofVenicewascreatedin1596andShylockisatypicalaffrontedJewinthisplay.ThereadersofTheMerc

8、hantofVeniceoftenregardShylockasagainful,greedyandcruelmoney-lenderandconspuehim.Howmanyofusreallyknowthesocia