The Merchant Of Venice

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her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to:

"Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum...
..But stop my house's ears-I mean casements.
Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter
My sober house." 3

Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, even to the point where he complains about all of the money he's spending in a search to find her.

"Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats in Frankford! The curse....ill luck stirring but what lights o' my shoulders; no sighs but o' my breathing; no tears but o' my shedding."4

Salerio makes the audience wonder about Shylock, when he raves about when Shylock was calling out, "Oh my ducats, my daughter, my ducats, my daughter.." This makes you wonder which he misses the most. This proves that he mistreats, even his own daughter. He ...

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