There's not much point in critiquing something merely reworded from another source-- and I suggest that you learn that research is not copying others' ideas, but understanding others' ideas and then developing your own. Nevertheless, I have underlined some obvious errors:
Elizabethan England was anti-Semitic: Jews had been expelled from the
country during the Middle
Ages, and were not allowed to return until
the rule of Oliver Cromwell. Elizabethan playwrights usually depicted
Jews as
greedy usurers, with hideous and mocking physical features
(hooked noses and bright red wigs, for example); they were
characterized as evil, deceptive and
greedy. In
The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare continued this tradition (we know that in its days the play
was known as "The Jew of Venice", and this suggests an analogy with
Marlowe's
The Jew of Malta), but his main purpose was to make
the audience
reflect about the anti-Semitic problem: this explains why
Shylock's is such a complex character, unlike the comically wicked
Barabas of
The Jew of Malta.
A thorough analysis of
Shylock's acts and words during the key scene of the trial shows us
that, though he is definitely a cruel villain, he is made equal to all
the
Christian that treated him
really badly, and so is partially
justified. Thus many critics and theatregoers have viewed Shylock's
"Hath not a Jew eyes" speech as sympathetic, because the author
apparently wants to justify Shylock's thirst for revenge; on the other
hand, those who reject this interpretation
adfirm that Shakespeare
simply meant to contrast the mercy of the main Christian characters
with the vengefulness of a Jew, and meant Shylock's conversion as a
happy ending, since it
'redeems' him both from his unbelief and his
specific sin of wanting to kill Antonio. Finally,
there's another
aspect of the scene we have to consider: the entire trial is a mockery
of justice, since the very people who berated Shylock are forced to
resort to trickery in order to win. This can support the sympathetic
interpretation along with the final part of Shylock's speech, in which
he says that he learned the thirst for revenge from the Christian
characters.