Merchant Of Venice Stereotypes

Through “The Merchant of Venice” we see that Shakespeare supports the anti-semitic stereotypes and it’s portray through the character of Shylock. Many individuals fear that it’s unsuitable to teach and discuss “The Merchant of Venice” in high school because of its nugatory ways it displays in Jews; however, it is essential to read this polemical play in high school because it expands the literary minds to those who read it due to their complexity of Shakespeare. It also allows students to read and understand the anti-semitic history Jews faced back in 1700’s.
In ‘The Merchant of Venice’ we see many anti-semitism values towards the Jews. Shylock is portrayed as this evil character, that only cares about his money and nothing else. When his
This is because of they believed that high school students lack in maturity and have low vocabulary jargon. When reading Shakespeare, the minds of the reader are expanded due to the extensive vocabulary and the modern english that Shakespeare's provides. Based on what Shakespeare.com said, high schoolers are a lot more mature than popular society is willing to give them credit for, especially when they are presented with a situation that calls them to act mature. In other words, a student in high school would act mature if he sees that everyone else is being mature and see that the teacher really keeps a straight face and demonstrate how serious they should take the play in order to understand what's going on. When I was taught the “The Merchant of Venice” my teacher made everyone in the class sign a permission slip. When he gave them out, I figured that the play was going to display some inappropriate content but at the same time it just reinforced how serious we needed to take play. At first my classmates reacted to some scenes display in the movie, but then they got used to it and actually started to pay attention to the dialogue. The reason why students may act immature when they see these scene from play is because they are surrounded by their friends and if they see one person laughing then they start to laugh and sooner or later the rest are not going to take it serious. when high schoolers are treated as though they are mature and intelligent and can handle sophisticated discussions about controversial issues, then they