Shylock was depicted as a greedy vicious Usurer who cared about money or profit over everything by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice,while this paper intends to speak in defence of seemingly selfish Shylock.Through some in-depth analysis of the reason and racial nature of regular Jewish people beneath the story,Shylock’s much blamed behavior was justified,which can further more give a hint of the author’s antisemitism. Shylock was depicting a greedy vicious Usurer who cared about money or profit over everything by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice, while this paper intends to speak in defense of seemingly selfish Shylock.Through some in-depth analysis of the reason and racial nature of regular Jewish people beneath the story, Shylock’s much blamed behavior was justified, which can further more give a hint of the author’s antisemitism.