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The Merchant of Venice is a comedy entangled with love affairs, wits and rounds of adventures led by young privileged Christians. It also tells a gloomy, agonizing humility inflicted upon Shylock, a Jewish usurer. He is unduly subject to it by force of irresistible social prejudice and discrimination. This paper is an attempt to set a new perspective to interpret the multiple characters of Shylock. They are displayed in the course of his encounter with dominant social norms and modes of conduct. Fallacy of mercy is coined to point to the manifest symptom of the collective moral reactions registered by the privileged Christians to tame the poor, trapped victim
personified in Shylock.