William Shakespeare's Intentions Toward His Audience

Shakespeare’s Intentions Toward His Audience Revenge is a natural emotion for humans when we feel betrayed or angry, but the question is; Does it benefit you? Many people don’t adopt revenge as their last resort and some use revenge like a belief, just like character Shylock in Shakespeare’s book “The Merchant Of Venice”. Shakespeare challenges our emotion and mocks us for our cruel desires through Shylock’s anger and tone. The tone given to the audience is filled with a large quantity of greed and hatred but resembles us when we experience annoyance and want to payback what is owed. Shakespeare mocks one of our flaws that we have the crave for on a daily basis and we Humans cease to see it.

Humans can naturally be evil. Most were made like this from their past and that’s what shakespeare is trying to bring to our attention. Shylock plays as the victim who was once tortured and turned to the torturer. Since he was kicked, beaten, and taunted for what his religious beliefs were by character Antonio, he now seeks revenge. Shylock isn’t wrong for having the need for revenge but why is that the first thing that comes to mind? When someone (for example) takes the last cookie from the jar and then teases you because they got to it first, you feel like

Is revenge even healthy? Psychologically no. In fact, Confucius once said “When anger rises, think of the consequences.”. What people tend to do is get angry and not think of the repercussions. Eventually this leads to many issues that can’t be solved or even someone could end up getting hurt. In the “Merchant Of Venice”, Shylock was owed a pound of flesh and expected that he could get his revenge on Antonio. His “repercussions” though were if he drew a single drop of blood, he could be sentenced to death and lose all of his valuables and owned properties. This shows an example we Humans make on a daily basis, we never think somethings, like revenge,