Overview of a Cycle of Predicament： A Comparative Study Between Shylock and Heathcliff Cyclic Process of Victimization

作     者：U. H. Ruhina Jesmin 

作者机构：Khulna University Khulna Bangladesh 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第2卷第8期

页      面：779-784页

学科分类：080701[工学-工程热物理] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 080101[工学-一般力学与力学基础] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：trauma marginalization victimized victimizer self-victimization 

摘      要：This paper attempts to explore how Shylock in William Shakespeare＇s The Merchant of Venice （1995） and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte＇s Wuthering Heights （2003） were victimized who became victimizer later to heal their wound and compensate their loss and how they were victimized in turn in doing so. Shylock was victimized by the Christian society along with his own. His daughter left him in favor of the Christians. He later became a victimizer but was ironically victimized in turn in wreaking vengeance on his foes in the court. Similarly, Heathcliffs true spiritual love was rejected by His Catherine, neglected by everyone, physically and mentally abused. Later, he wreaked vengeance upon his foes but was victimized to death in turn. Shylock entered the court as a victimizer but left it as a victimized individual just as Heathcliff entered the Heights, after self-imposed exile, as a victimizer and left it as a victimized individual for good. Therefore, both of them experienced a cycle of victimization.