Merchant Of Venice - Antonio A

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of Venice and seeing how unjustly poor Shylock was treated by his Christian contemporaries, I can't help but wonder if Shakespeare was actually trying to show the world how hypocritical members of any religion could be, be it Jewish, Christian, or anything else. For, although these two disliked each other based mainly on differences of religious doctrine, they had more in common than bleeding when pricked, laughing when tickled, or dying when poisoned. They are both extremely greedy. Actually the whole play is based on greed and money.
Shylock, in particular, keeps babbling on and on about those precious ducats of his, as if they could actually be more important than his own flesh and blood (and, considering his daughter's deviation, they probably were). As for Antonio, he was one who loved money, but, in a different way than Shylock. He seemed to love the power that comes along with having money, for he seemed to get more of a buzz out of loaning/giving it to others than ...

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