How does Shakespeare make Shylock a memorable character?

I don't know if this counts as techniques or not, but I think there are two major ways in which Shylock is memorable.

First, I think he's memorable for modern audiences just because he's...

In the play "The Merchant Of Venice" by William Shakespeare, the author presents us with a character that most of us usually remember for years afterwards. The question as to why Shylock is so...

Shylock a memorable character?  We find in the SIGNET edition William Hazlitt's 1818 comment "That he has but one idea[revenge] is not true; he has more ideas than any other person in the piece."  Hazlitt also refers to Shylock's "More than a lodged hate" from the court scene which corresponds to Romeo's "O, tell me, friar, tell me, / In what vile part of this anatomy / Doth my name lodge?  Tell me, that I may sack / The hateful  mansion"(ROM 3.3).  The above and other linguistic connections link Shylock and Romeo.  Egeus in MND and Capulet in ROM are also angry with their daughters.