[简答题,10分] Tell the main idea of The Merchant of Venice.

The Merchant of Venice depicts the heroin Portia’s wittiness, bravery in an emergence in disguise of a lawyer to defeat that evil plot of the most cunning and wicked Jew Shylock. From this play, Shakespeare reflected the sharp contradiction between Antonio, a rising bourgeoisie, and the old-fashioned money usurer, and praised the friendship, love, good-ness as well as condemned the greedy and cruelty.