Merchant of Venice
Title: Merchant of Venice
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 3277 | Pages: 12 (approximately 235 words/page)
Merchant of Venice
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 3277 | Pages: 12 (approximately 235 words/page)
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fleshy bond of husband and wife.
When the abuse of the Jew as usurer is combined with the Christian religious bias against Jewry that marked Elizabethan England, this leads to a natural result in the demonization of the Jew. This demonization quickly leads to the image of the Jew as a wanton murderer, and is clearly revealed in the accusation of "blood libel" that arose against the Jews during their year before exile from England.