Comparative Essay - School ties & the Merchant of Venice
All around the world and in almost every era of time there has always been some sort of discrimination, segregation and hate towards the Jewish culture and its people. Both the movie “School Ties” and the play “The Merchant of Venice” include two Jewish males, David and Shylock, who were hated and frowned upon because of their culture and religion. Although both were treated like garbage, one of them was treated worse than the other.
In the play “The Merchant of Venice” it was set in the 1500s, where discrimination and the mistreatment of Jews were totally acceptable. Since Jews were frowned upon during that time, the Jews were forced to live in a different community where only Jews lived. They were given a curfew to roam the streets out of their community and they were abused in many different ways – such as physically, emotionally and verbally. In the movie “School Ties” is was set in the 1950s, just a few years after World War ll, where most of the Jewish population of Europe had been killed in the Holocaust. In the school David enrolled in, everyone is Christian and despise Jews even though WWll occurred not too long ago and everyone is aware and conscious of what happened to Jews. People would treat Jews as some sort of disease they could catch, so they would try to stay away from them (isolation), blamed them for their problems, physically and verbally abused them.
In the play “The Merchant of Venice” Shylock was the greedy and wealthy Jew, who was hated by everyone. Shylock’s occupation was to lend money to anyone who asked him to, but he put interests which no one could afford. This is one of the main reasons Shylock is hated, the other would be an obvious reason, he is a Jew and the rest of Venice consists of Christians (other than the Jewish community). Jews are known to be “money hungry”, greedy and selfish. Shylock gives no sympathy to anyone in any way, especially to his daughter Jessica. When he received the news that his
In the play “The Merchant of Venice” it was set in the 1500s, where discrimination and the mistreatment of Jews were totally acceptable. Since Jews were frowned upon during that time, the Jews were forced to live in a different community where only Jews lived. They were given a curfew to roam the streets out of their community and they were abused in many different ways – such as physically, emotionally and verbally. In the movie “School Ties” is was set in the 1950s, just a few years after World War ll, where most of the Jewish population of Europe had been killed in the Holocaust. In the school David enrolled in, everyone is Christian and despise Jews even though WWll occurred not too long ago and everyone is aware and conscious of what happened to Jews. People would treat Jews as some sort of disease they could catch, so they would try to stay away from them (isolation), blamed them for their problems, physically and verbally abused them.
In the play “The Merchant of Venice” Shylock was the greedy and wealthy Jew, who was hated by everyone. Shylock’s occupation was to lend money to anyone who asked him to, but he put interests which no one could afford. This is one of the main reasons Shylock is hated, the other would be an obvious reason, he is a Jew and the rest of Venice consists of Christians (other than the Jewish community). Jews are known to be “money hungry”, greedy and selfish. Shylock gives no sympathy to anyone in any way, especially to his daughter Jessica. When he received the news that his