Shylock: Victim or Villain? He is a Jewish moneylender who earns his living by charging interest on money he loans (like modern banks). He often speaks prose in the play‚ which marks him out as an outsider. He is persecuted by all the non-Jews he knows: He tells Antonio‚ "suff’rance is the badge of all our tribe". He is verbally abused and bullied by most characters in the play and is called cruel names including "villain with a smiling cheek‚ cut-throat dog‚ bloody creditor‚ damned inexecrable
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Victims of crime victimization are more reluctant to report their crime to the police or other law enforcement affecting policing and the National Criminal Victimization Survey report. The police and the public are co existing together to mitigate crime and help the innocent victims. The police are not as effective in reacting to crimes when the victims do not report the crimes to the police. In a recent study a massive “54 percent of violent victimizations are not reported to the police” (Ranapurwala
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We agree that Shylock is more a villain than a victim. Shylock is a villain because he has evil intentions towards Antonio. In an aside‚ shylock displayed his hatred for Antonio when he said “If I catch him once upon the hip‚ I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.” This means that shylock’s hatred for Antonio has reached such a point that he desires to harm Antonio in some way. The phrase “feed fat” suggests that if he can find some way to get the upper hand of Antonio‚ He will use it to
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Shylock is “The Merchant of Venice” In William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice‚" there are many themes‚ symbols and words alike which take on a complex and dual nature. Not only can lines in the play be interpreted by the audience in multiple ways‚ they are meant to have multiple meanings. This duality can be seen in the characters as well. Shylock is portrayed as both a victim and a villain and our sense of him evolves as his character is revealed to us as “The Merchant of Venice
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Is Shylock a Villain or a Victim? In William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice‚ Shylock‚ a Jewish money-lender‚ is portrayed as the cold-blooded‚ greedy antagonist of the story. Some people may see him as the villain of the story – and in some ways he is – but‚ really‚ this is a result of the stereotypes associated with Jews. He is quite a peculiar character and his role in the story is indefinite because he has traits of both a villain and a victim. A villain is ‘a wicked person or criminal’
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Shylock: Victim or Villain? In the Merchant of Venice play written by William Shakespeare the character Shylock is highly debated as victim or villain. Throughout the play Shylock is mistreated by everyone. Shylock is physically‚ emotionally and mentally abused. By the end of the play Shylock has lost everything he owns‚ including his daughter Jessica. Thus Shylock is in fact a victim during the play. Unfortunately during the play the reader reads about Shylock being mistreated by everyone around
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Crime Reports and Victimization Brittany Epperly CJS/235 11/23/2014 Cathy Arrowsmith Crime Reports and Victimization Crime reporting and victimization go hand in hand. Without victims there would be less reports of crime‚ and without crime reporting there would not be a valid way of gaging crime rates and number
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Victimization is an issue that is constantly being addressed and analyzed by the Criminal Justice System‚ and members of our society‚ it is a study known as victimology. According to the Justice Department and the U.S. Census Bureau‚ victimization isn’t random. They have supported evidence from The National Victimization Survey. The NCVS is a federally sponsored survey which is given yearly‚ and is a useful piece of crime data. The survey is done by carefully selecting a portion of the U.S. consisting
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The Media and the Fear of Victimization Tonight’s presenter spoke on the images of crime that are presented on television and the media and how they affect the public perception on being victimized. She gave examples of how the media has the tendency to often blow up a situation so as to make it appear as if the nation is in some great peril. For example if someone does a study on juvenile crime you can expect the media to focus on juvenile crime and incidents that may be occurring across
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Americans is logically illegitimate because African Americans have been victimized only because they were born with darker skin color. Moreover‚ taking away their basic rights‚ putting them into terrible conditions and damaging to Africa‚ shows the victimization of the Blacks in America. First‚ the enslavement of African Americans cannot be legitimized‚ because it is ethically wrong to take away others’ rights based on their skin color. During the era‚ people treated African Americans like how they would
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