Relations Between The People In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice

The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare rights to show relations between the people. Their relations help move the play forward. The play was set in Venice, Italy in the late 1500’s. During this time jews had been legally banned from some of their rights. People in venice were placed into their social ranking based on wealth and political relations. Shakespeare unfolds the life of, self interest over love, because this is a major factor in one's life.
The mid to late 1500’s renaissance took root in venice. The liberal art, architecture, and ideas of the noble rulers were changed by this. During this time venice was also going through a ice age. Much of venice was frozen, so the city struggled to trade with other countries. Their religious beliefs were very strong. the church ruled alongside the nobles with a “iron fist”. But later the church lost its grip on the people and they started to rebel. People did not have jobs either. You were either born a noble or your father was a merchant and found you a job as a servant. The women stayed at home and cooked, cleaned, and did wifely duties. Being a servant didn't mean you got payed. So the poverty rate was high and the currency flow was minimal. So what little money they did have was

He is probably just going on what he has heard. Jews were banished from england in 1290, witch means this is kind of anti-semitic. It is said that, “ Biblical exhortations against the lending of money led to an attitude among the inhabitants of Christian Europe that the lending of money at interest was at best, un-Christian, and at worst, sinful and evil. The Jewish religion attached no such stigma to lending money, and as a result many Jews offered that service to Christians”. Jews were banished because they wanted to gain something from loaning money to others including Christians. Christians believed in loaning money without any extra pay in