【正文】 about Shylock. Hateful Shylock Before, especially in 16th century, this drama was a edy no matter from which side, because three pairs of lovers have perfect results. But Shylock as an evildoer has been punished. In the era of racial discrimination, Shylock’s final result, without doubt, it’s a good thing for clapping and cheering. While the words which describe Shylock are disdainful: greed, cunning, cruel and so on. Like Shylock said, many Christians and people will say the same as Antonio said “misbeliever, cutthroat dog”. Such Shylock, people will list many reasons and facts to illustrate how bad he was. He hates Antonio obviously, and wants to revenge by chance, so he signs the contract which he will cut a pound of Antonio’s meat if he couldn’t return money on time. This will kill Antonio possibly and solve the problem about which he always worried. But he artfully said “I say, to buy his favor, I extend this friendship: If he will take it, so。關(guān)鍵詞：夏洛克；宗教；法律；歷史；悲劇AbstractThe Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most famous edy in the world. While Shylock is a classical figure and analyzed again and again. Before, especially in16th 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 edy. As times goes by, people begin to reanalyze 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 now, such as: clever, frank, courageous, rich national spirit. In addition, this paper talk some reasons why Shylock had a tragic result.Key words: Shylock, Religion, Law, History, TragedyIIContents Background 1 The History of the Jewish 1 The Jewish Question Reflected in The Merchant of Venice 2 Analysis of Shylock’s Characters 4 Hateful Shylock 4 Different Shylock – from another angle 5 Reasons that Cause Shylock have Diversified Character 7 Religion 7 Law 9 Social and Economic Factors 10 Family and other Reasons 11 13Notes 14Bibliography 15Acknowledgements 1616My Evil Not My Fault——An Analysis of the Image of Shylock Background The History of the JewishThis is an old nationality, and es into the world with the born of the Judaism. They start in Arabia, and live their life along with the float grass at first. Later, they became the farming nation. In 586 BC, many Jews descent into ‘Babylonian Exile’, and were dispersed all over the world. In the period ruled by Rome, Emperor Caracalla of Rome promulgated laws to alleviate ethnic contradictions in 212 AD, which made the Jews have the civil right of Rome in law. But with the times of Rome ending and the Nordic invading, the Jews and the Rome citizen became the ‘denizen’. Later, more and more Teutons Christianise ,became Christians. Thus, the boundary between ‘denizens’ and Teutons were disappearing little by little, they became a big family which all the members believe the Christian. But for the Jews, they insist on their belief and refuse to accept Christianity. Beyond all question, this kind of behavior made them a ‘denizen’ forever by those Christian, although they escaped from agriculture, smart Jews were still active in various industries in city. Until the 11th century, because many countries in Europe began to revitalizing, as the weak force, the Jews can’t pete with them. Thus, in order to live, some of the Jews have engaged in usury. But this behavior made Christian have more reasons to scorn them, for Christians’ outlook，usury is a violation of the teachings. They considered the Jews just got others’ achievement. But what’s more miserable, the rulers of European countries, through levy heavy tax, confiscation of property, and all kinds of means to cheat, robbed the wealth of the Jews. This made money bee more and more important because the money is the only passport for them to live in such oppressed world. From the Middle Ages to early modern times, many folk tales and songs were popular with the Jewish story of the assassination of Christian children. In the era of Edward I(12651307) in England, Edward used to expel the Jews, but later, many Jews stayed in England in order to escape persecution by Spanish religious court. These Jews formed a small area. In 1594 years, Elizabeth’s physician—Portuguese Jews Lopez was accused of poisoning queen insidiously and he was interrogated. Although when Lopez stood next to the gallows, he sworn he was loyalty to the queen and said he worshipped Jesus Christ as the queen, but in London, whether they were noble or mon people, people all tended to believe that Lopez was guilty. This was just because he was a Jew, for many prejudice were still kept fully and majestically in the Middle Ages. The Jewish Question Reflected in The Merchant of Venice The film The Merchant of Venice tells us some information at begin “Intolerance of the Jews was a fact of 16th century life even in Venice, the most powerful and liberal city state in Europe. By l