Shylock from The Merchant of Venice is a Jewish money lender who lives in Venice. Shylock has lent three thousand ducats to Bassanio which he is to pay back in three months or Shylock gets a pound of flesh from Antonio. He is also a Jew and is mistreated by many people. Shylock is the victim of The Merchant of Venice because he was mistreated as a Jew, he received a horrible sentence in the court of law and he was betrayed by his own daughter, Jessica.

A reason why Shylock is the victim is that he was mistreated as a Jew; Jews in Shakespeare's time had to wear different clothes than everyone else did so you could be recognized as a Jew. They were also locked up at night so that they didn't get away. He was spat on by...