 studying the merchant of Venice. Let's look at key quotes relating to the character of Shilok. In Act 1, scene 3, in Shilok's aside, we learn his enemies with Antonio. Shilok calls Antonio a fawning publican. Now this simile is basically him saying that Antonio looks like a flattering tax collector. Shilok hates him for his Christian. Now the alliteration of H in hate him and he shows us that Shilok is a villain. He hates all Christians. We learn Shilok hates Antonio because Antonio basically undercuts him in business. He gives up money at a very low rate. Now the words money and usance belong to the semantic field of lending. Shilok promises he'll feed fat the ancient grudge he has for Antonio. Now feed fat is personification, basically saying that he's not going to forgive him. Shilok also tells us Antonio hates all Jews. He says he hates our sacred nation. The alliteration of H here shows that Antonio is not blameless. His anti-Semitic he hates Israelites. Shilok talks about how hard he works. He talks about my well-worn thrift and the alliteration here of W shows that he's in the business of lending. However, he works really hard for his money.