This essay will be based on how the merchant of venice is anti-semetic. Anti-semetism is discrimination towards jewish people. Many jews were to be shown as money lenderes and nothing else. Also one of the main charectors shylock is shown to be only foccused on his money. Furthermore i will be showing how the jews were disrespected at that time. Putting are focus away from the play jews lived in ghetto places in venice and were described as being the first ghetto people this was an act of semetism as they lived away from the christians, so therefore we can relate to where shakespeare is coming from.