1. Values in The Merchant of Venice
Shylock, is evidently vilified by an anti-semitic society, where hostility and acrimony is aimed at him due to him being a Jew. ... Shylock's anger is expressed when he highlights the fact that he will be seeking revenge upon the Christians when he says 'the villainy you teach me I will execute', and declares he will do it better than they have, when he claims 'I will better the instruction'. ... Portia 'may neither choose whom she would nor refuse whom she dislikes', which she quoted while expressing her opinion on her father's will in Act 1, scene 2....
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