You never shall, so help you truth and God, Embrace each other’s love in banishment, Nor never look upon each other’s face,
I never really understood why they both got banished after the duel? And why were the punishments different, in terms of how long they were banished?
The quality of mercy is not strained.
What kind of mercy is she talking about? When reading this play these Christians aren't very Christ like.
I pray you let me look upon the bond.
Of course here we find a similarity here with Twelfth Night. When Portia cross-dresses like Viola both pretending to be a man.
To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses,55 mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies— and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, 99 The Merchant of Venice ACT 3. SC. 1 senses, affections, passions? Fed with the60 same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you65 poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian70 example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the
I think this whole section right here needs to be talked about more. After reading from different articles of this time it really opened my eyes to what kind of life Shylock had.
Most wonderful!
This was my favorite bit. Through the whole play we see Olivia reject men except Cesario(aka Viola) and when she sees two of them she is starstruck. It's interesting how this is supposed to be a touching moment for Sebastian and Viola. But the play never misses a chance to make humor amongst it all.