The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人读后感

The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's early works. Theme of the play is a celebration of kind, friendship and love.It also reflects the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie in early capitalism and loan sharks, the author of the bourgeois society in the financial, legal and religious issues of humanism.
The whole passage describe a story that happens in Venice.At that time, a young man named Bassano who heard about news that Portia, a rich man’s daughter, she got three boxes: one gold box, one silver box, and one lead box. If someone chosen the box contained Portia’s portrait, then she would get marry the man. So he determined to win Portia as his wife. However, he needed three thousand ducats to reach his goal at all. Because lack of money, he had to turn to his good friend, a rich merchant Antonio for help. Unfortunately, at the same time, Antonio’s money was put into the business and he could not withdraw it immediately. To help his best friend, he went to borrow money from a wealthy Jewish scrivener ---Shylock as well as usury. Although he promised to lend him the three thousand ducats money . He put forward to a strange request that if Antonio could not repay the debt on time, he would cut a pound of flesh fro m Antonio’s body. And Antonio signed the contact. Fortunately, in the end, shylock was defeated by Portia’s wit and intelligence.
At Porti a’s house.there were three choices of boxes .The first of gold “Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”The second, silver, which this promise carries: Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves .The third ,dull lead, with warning all as blunt: ‘Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.’Bassanio didn’t let the gold and sliver confused his eyes .Finally ,the box of lead’s ordinary and plain attracted him. The box was reflected his idea of choosing a mate: Focus on inner rather than outward appearance. The inner beauty is more real than the appearance .Though Portia was a unique beauty lady, but there will be one day she will get older and ugly ,when the grace is not in, the inner beauty will remain in people’heart forever. Bassanio understands of the truth profoundly “So may the outward shows be least themselves; the world is still deceivd with a gracious voice.
Shylock’s image regarded as a mean and seek nothing but profits man knows to the world.But he also reflected European Governments of discrimination against Jews and exclusion.According to the law that forced to live inside the walled of old factories or slum, doors should be locked after sunset guarded by the Christian. Any Jews left the ghetto to bring some which were "Jewish" identity of Red Hat during the day indicated. Jews were forbidden to have own property, so they can only be usury, money lending interest on it, but this is contrary to the ecclesiastical law. For the merchant of Venice that they turn a blind eye,
but for hostile religious zealots, it's just completely different. They'd physical or verbal abuse or deprivation of the rights of Jewish life .From all of this ,we can see shylock is also a pitiful man actually, because of the cruel reality caused the tortuosity of personality .As he said:”Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.”His brutal character was contributed by this community ,a society that has serious racial discrimination .However shylock was considered a bad person ,contrasting with the Bassanio、Portia、Antonio ，eventually the bad guys get the deserved punishment, but good people live with a happy life .Later people bearing in mind Shylock of the mean by fair means or foul, instead no one will care about his experience .
The language art in this play both individuation and richly colorful、vivid、romatic、flowery language、meaningful.
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