The Merchant of Venice Part 4

This week the prompt is to write about anything that interests you that you haven’t written about already. The theme I have decided for this week is how a modern audience would react to Shylock's punishment and if he deserves it.
I believe the modern day audience would see this punishment as too harsh for what Shylock did. The reason why Shylock was stopped was because of the Doctor A.K.A. Portia for finding a loophole. In our society and our modern day courtroom that loophole would cleared all charges against Antonio and nothing would of happen to Shylock except he didn't get a pound of flesh. The modern day audience sees Shylock's punishment as too harsh because there was an agreement between Shylock and Antonio and not just a verbal agreement but a written contract. What that shows me is Shylock did nothing wrong. He did what the contract said and when the Doctor pointed out the loophole telling him that he is not able to follow through with the contract he stop and didn’t break the rules. Even though Shylock stopped and didn't break the rules he was still punished which is why the modern day audience found Shylock to be unreasonable punished.