The persecution and humiliation Sherlock was subjected to made everything seem natural to him. What's more, his unsatisfactory daughter not only brought him shame, but also caused him to lose property. If you can't hate your own daughter, then taking anger at Christian and Antonio is a good choice, or the only choice.
Unfortunately, the rules of this world are made by Christians. Even if the pagans saw occasional opportunities for resistance, it was an illusion. Because laws are made by Christians, interpretations are also made by Christians, and judgments and executions are also made by Christians.
Sherlock's body slowly lowered in the courtroom, like the Jewish people who tried to fight again and again but had to compromise all they had to make in order to survive.
And Sherlock, who stands between Christians and Jews, can be either a persecuted Jew or a condemned Christian, or he can be a narrow, fierce Jew, or an arrogant one. , Arbitrary Christians.
If from a different perspective, Christianity and Judaism are interchanged, what is the difference. The only constant is that human beings have always persecuted each other, and have always confirmed their own righteousness and nobility by identifying each other's abnormality and evil.
The relationship between Antonio and Bassanio has been shown more fully. It should be noted that when Bassanio appeared, the attitude of the people around Antonio, their relationship was almost public.
Their conversation takes place in the bedroom, and Bassanio's actions are just as meaningful as Antonio's. Even some of their decisions were made on the same bed.
It's just that, compared with Antonio's single-mindedness, Bassanio may just see this relationship as a game, or just a gratitude to an elder who loves him, or just because Antonio is a piece of paper that can be used at any time for him. A cheque to pay, which Bassanio, the libertine, could not refuse. It's nothing to him, but that's all.
Antonio, the loser who mixed the roles of father and lover, seemed to be lonely at the end. It's not that he and all the people in love in the world don't understand, even if they understand, they still have to fly over like moths, which is the real tragedy.
Antonio and Sherlock, they are both outcasts, and they hurt each other. They all stand in their respective positions and cannot escape the limitations of their own bodies and spirits. More often, they are like set roles, unable to independently practice the fate that has been decided.
Is this a metaphor for each of us? And is that gloomy Venice, which at the same time symbolizes the highest civilization of mankind, a metaphor for our world? What does the last loneliness of Antonio and Sherlock have to do with the loneliness of Venice, a city-state in the world, and the loneliness of human civilization as an island in the universe?
Where do we stand now, when, and what kind of judgments have we made? Is this also part of an unsurpassable destiny? Suddenly, the same place as the island where the goddess lives, the divine brilliance emanating from it does not shine on our place either.
Above the ocean that floats like a dream, the song is ethereal, we all exist alone, each sad.
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