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Shylock is one of the antagonists in Shakespeare's play, Merchant of Venice. In here, he is seen as a sly and crafty villain in Merchant of Venice and is obsessed with money.
This can be seen in the play whereby when Jessica went away, he cried in anxiety ‘‘my daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! / Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!" from here, we can see how crazy shylock is with money that he treats money above all even above his daughter.


Next, Shylock is seen as a sly and crafty villain who slowly plots his way to kill Antonio. We can see how he turned an innocent loan into an agreement between life and death and he slowly persuades Antonio to sign it by telling him it is worth it. Later once the Antonio broke the agreement, he immediately made preparations to kill his enemy as he wants the kill mainly Antonio by taking a pound of his flesh through a bond which he signed with him. Shakespeare here is probably trying to depict the Jews as bloodthirsty and sly evildoers who sin and is prejudice against him.


However another thing to take note is that Shakespeare also criticizes Christian in his play. We can see how he portray Antonio whereby Antonio normally hurl unkind insults at shylock calling him a dog etc and even going to the extent of spitting on him.


Hence, in conclusion, although Shakespeare wanted to show the extent of the evilness of Jews in his play, he also emphasizes that everyone sin and this can be seen about how he portrayed Antonio. Hence I feel that Shakespeare wanted to make everyone be it Jew or Christian a sinner and that no one is perfect.

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I feel that Shakespeare is biased against the Jews and this can be seen from how he described shylock in the play whereby he was described as a cruel and heartless person in the book unlike the christian characters like Portia etc. In the Merchant of Venice, Shylock was often discriminated by Antonio whereby he would usually spit on Shylock and hurl nasty insults at him. This clearly shows how Antonio, a Christian, looks down on Shylock, who is a Jew. Also Shakespeare gave him a pitiful life story whereby not only he was terribly punished in the end but he lost his daughter, servant and wealth. This shows how terrible a fate and person shylock is as the way Shakespeare wanted to picture it and shows how Jews were treated at that point of time. In conclusion, I feel that it is through these events that Shakespeare reveals the Anti-Semitism theme to the audience.

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I feel that Shakespeare is biased against the Jews and this can be seen from how he described shylock in the play whereby he was described as a cruel and heartless person in the book unlike the christian characters like Portia etc. In the Merchant of Venice, Shylock was often discriminated by Antonio whereby he would usually spit on Shylock and hurl nasty insults at him. This clearly shows how Antonio, a Christian, looks down on Shylock, who is a Jew. Also Shakespeare gave him a pitiful life story whereby not only he was terribly punished in the end but he lost his daughter, servant and wealth. This shows how terrible a fate and person shylock is as the way Shakespeare wanted to picture it and shows how Jews were treated at that point of time. In conclusion, I feel that it is through these events that Shakespeare reveals the Anti-Semitism theme to the audience.

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I feel that Jim Roger's argument in which he decides to send his children in order to prepare for the future where Asia would be the leading super power in the world. He argues that he sent his children to Singapore to study in order to enable them to be bilingual as to prepare for the future and I strongly agree as with China undergoing rapid industrialising and is slowly immerging to be the world next super power, we definitely cannot sit back and do nothing and instead we must be prepared, prepared to change. The ability to adapt is very important and we must quickly adapt to the rapidly changing world in order to stay at the top. Hence I agree with him due to our common belief that we need to have a global perspectives it will be unwise to think that a country would forever be the world’s leading market. Hence in order to prepare ourselves from the unkwonn future, learning a skill or 2 now is defintetly useful and that is why he sends his children here to learn Chinese.

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I feel that she is right with her points being extremely effective and clear. They are impactful and useful as they are not only truthful but also talk straight to the problem. She cover three main problems in this letter which are killing the children curiosity, affecting the inquisitive nature of a child and the way the school teaches moral values. In this letter, she has questioned the meaning of the word education to the government with her trying to bring out examples and what she had experienced to give some feedback to the government so as to make the government realise the flaws in the education system. This has proved effective with the education minister of Singapore request to invite her in a discussion which he plans to start where they will discuss possible future education policies. He hopes that many youths will come and join in the discussion so as to improve the system and bring the nation forward.





In my opinion, I feel that there can never be an "ideal" education system. Every single person is born differently and everyone has special talents and weaknesses and there can never be a system so good that it caters to everyone and develop everyone talents and skills to the maximum. Furthermore with different opinion of everyone on the education system and how it should be run is different, there can never be one that fits all. Hence, I feel that the best form of education would be to separate students into different streams so as to cater to people with different learning paces so that teachers will be able to focus on the capabilities of the students better and bring the best out of them. Hence despite an ideal education system is impossible, a good one can still exist.