The Merchant of Venice

An interesting point I found in watching The Merchant of Venice was the appearance of a reoccurring theme throughout the semester; prejudices. The prejudice focused on in Merchant was differing religions. Shylock disliked everyone else in the play because they were all Christians. And reversely everyone else in the play disliked Shylock because he was Jewish! This theme never gets old, I can plays based off of prejudices a million times over and it still will interest me (as long as I'm not reading the same play a million times over, I'm talking about reading different plays which total up to a million plays!). I mean think about it, there is some form of prejudice feelings between characters in ALL the plays we read (except maybe Art, unless you consider the idea that the friends are prejudice against the forms of art the others like). Also think of this, Shakespeare wrote this play in the late 1500's, M Butterfly was written in the late 1900's. And both can be related to society today. I just thought it was interesting that no matter what type of play you read or watch there is always going to be a point of prejudice somewhere in the plot.