Answer:
b the message about life that an author expresses
It shows he has life experience and knows what he’s talking about
In lines 29-34 Shylock gives his reason.
"Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarrite, conjured the devil onto! I will buy with you, sell with you talk with you, walk with you and so following; but I will not eat with you, nor pray with you."
Shylock's reasons are to do with his own religious beliefs.
