论《威尼斯商人》中的宗教冲突
Particularly, I am deeply indebted to Mrs. Xu Li, my supervisor, who guided me throughout my writing of this thesis. She carefully read the whole draft and offered painstaking and precious criticism. Her standards of academic excellence have made my revision and exciting and gratifying experience. I also wish to sincerely thank my classmates and friends Hu Limei and Gao Lingjie, whose brilliant ideas and perceptive observations have proved immensely constructive.
My parents took good care of my life and gave me a lot of encouragement when I was working on this thesis. They always share my weal and woe. I feel much grateful and heartily owe my achievement to them.
Furthermore, none of this would have been possible without the help of those inpiduals and organizations hereafter mentioned with gratitude: our school library and its staff, Shanghai Library and its staff.
Abstract
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's distinguished plays. In this book, Antonio and Shylock are two typical characters standing for Christianity and Judaism respectively. The thesis will have a brief analysis on the religious conflict in The Merchant of Venice between Christianity and Judaism through the analysis and comparison between those two typical characters with the assistance of comparison between other Christians and Jews in this book.
This conflict can be regarded as a particular social phenomenon. Therefore, the thesis will also refer to conflict theory in sociology to illustrate the unavoidable result of the disadvantaged groups at that time and the function of this theory in a general society.
Last but not least, although conflict in a society is unavoidable due to various reasons, it is of great importance to maintain peace and harmony for the sake of inpiduals.
Key Words: religious conflict, Jews, Christians, conflict theory, anti-Semitism
摘要
《威尼斯商人》是莎士比亚的一部有特色的喜剧。在这部剧中，安东尼奥和夏洛克是典型的两个宗教的代表人物。此论文会通过对戏剧中这两个角色的冲突做分析和对比来分析这部剧中存在的基督教和犹太教的宗教冲突。在这过程中也会借助其他角色的冲突来辅助对宗教冲突的分析。
其实这种冲突是一种典型的社会现象，此论文借助社会学中的冲突理论来阐述在中世纪，冲突下弱势群体的必然结局，以及冲突对一般社会所起到的功能。
最后，最重要的一点是尽管由于各种各样的原因冲突在一个社会中是不可避免的，但是为了每个人，文护和平以及和谐是一件至关重要的事情。
毕业论文关键词：宗教冲突，犹太人，基督徒，社会冲突理论，反犹主义
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ……. i
Abstract….ii
摘要.….iii
1 Introduction…. 1
2 Interpretation of The Merchant of Venice.3
2.1 Summary of the Play.….3
2.2 Protagonists in the Play and Their Characteristics… 4
3 Deep Reasons behind The Religious Conflict.6
3.1 Historical Reasons for the Conflict.….…6
3.2 Cause for the Sharpening of the Conflict…….7
3.3 Difficult Situation of Jews in the Middle Ages… 7
4 Religious Conflict Embodied in The Merchant of Venice.…9
4.1 Shylock vs. Antonio.… 9
4.2 Conflicts Illustrated by Others….11
5 Unavoidable Fate for Disadvantaged Groups in the Middle Ages….13