The Analysis of the Jew of Malta by Marlowe

Introduction

The play highlights the in-depth work of screen play and cognitive stimulation playing with topics not often touched by a lot of people. The characters highlight strong religious believers and relate to a number of major religions like Islam, Christianity and Judaism. A higher emphasis by the character can be seen on the grasping revenge, power, sexual satisfaction and wealth by stepping aside their spiritual believes. There are highlights where Barabas ceaselessly, greedy and resourcefulness suggests that the play takes advantage of the existing Jewish stereotypical image of the time and criticism of the Jews as the guilty (Cummings Pp. 02-08).

The play depicts the role of an adult moving against the youth, which is controversial to the traditional rebellion of the youth against the adults. The hateful and merciless nature of Barabas can be seen as cruel and terrible when he kills the young boys, and does not even spare his own daughter. The actions of Barabas can be seen as the reaction of a person who not only is vengeful, but reacts to the revolting behavior of the youth. The time for the play is focusing is an era where youth revolt is not a common thing, and mainly revolves around the youth conforming to adults and their instructions.

The Jew of Malta by Marlowe

The play is a marvelous in-depth work of art encompassing topics not commonly touched by a lot of people. Most of the characters of the play are highlighting strong religious principles of major religions like Islam, Christianity and Judaism, but focus too much on achieving revenge, power, sexual satisfaction and wealth by by-passing their spiritual believes. The main purpose of the play can be seen as attracting or diverting mankind's attention to their tendency to avoid the demands of morality, just to make content their wicked desires. The main theme of the play and the story can be referred to as ruthless practicality and mindless opportunism to satisfy one's needs.

The Play the Jew of Malta focuses on the audiences who typically hated Jews and were anti-Semitic. The play was either aiming to portray the theme of anti-Semitism of the audience, or to reflect the thinking of the society. The play typically mock the Christian and Muslims, as well as Jews as a whole, but it specially highlights the character of Barabas as incessantly avaricious and revengeful suggests that it intentionally intents to take advantage of the existing Jewish stereotypes and criticism of Jews as the guilty of wrongdoers. Anti-Semitism was a very common thing in Europe from as long as the religion emerged.

Innocent younger generation

The play portrays the rare event in which the youth, who are innocent in their nature, are killed by the self obsessed wealth craving Barabas. Barabas, the money seeking adult who was bent upon revenge, played with the youth to get his desires fulfilled. He decides to gain revenge against Ferneze through Lodowick. He convinces the youth that he is not yet penniless, and ...