Month: January 2016

Act 3 scene 3 is about Shylock talking to Antonio and the jailer about his bond,also he will not go back on his bond.Portia is saying to Lorenzo that she is going to convert,but she is actual going to Venice to spy on Bassanio to see what he is doing Continue reading

If the play is anti semitic we should not learn about it because Jews might take it to 

1. A rhetorical question may have an obvious answer but the questioner asks rhetorical questions to lay value to the point.In english, a rhetorical question is easy to perceive and used for style as an impressive persuasive device.

2. “If you prick us, do we not bleed?If you tickle us, do we not laugh?If you poison us, do we not die?And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”These rhetorical questions show that shylock is really angry with the words he is using words that seem violent.

3. Hev talks about it in act 3 scene 1 when he said he will get Antonio’s heart and i think that is his revenge.

4.  Shylock poses a lot of questions, but they are asked with purpose and intention. He begs to understand why he is treated so cruelly for being Jewish, because, as a Jew, he is still human. And as a human, we are all equal and we are all going to die and hurt alike 

The scene starts with solanio and salarino talking about rumours going all around Rialto about Antonio’s ship wrecked on the Goodwin sands,”Now,what news on the Rialto?” this is when solanio asked salarino if there is gossip in Rialto then salarino was telling him where the ships were wrecked and how dangerous the place is,also i think they do not believe that Antonio will have money  to pay Shylock .Shylock enters the room and solanio and salarino provoke him using Jessica’s letter.Shylock was taking about the bet him and Antonio made say there were bad thing coming. Shylock is talking about how the Christian treat the Jews in Venice and how the were disrespected and he said he will seek revenge on Christians.Shylock asks Tubal  if he has found his daughter but Tubal tells Shylock that Jessica has taken Shylock’s money and jewels when Shylock hears that he gets angry and wants Jessica dead for what she did to him,then Tubal reports to Shylock that Antonio has lost another ship at sea,hearing this Shylock tells Tubal to get an officer so that the officer can arrest Antonio.Then Shylock thought about the body part he will be taking from when he said “I will have the heart of him if he forfeit,for were he out of Venice i can make what merchandise i will.This shows that he wants to kill him for revenge for spiting on him also he wants to make his Jewish brothers proud by killing Antonio.Near the beginning of the play Shylock was starting to think they are making an secret plan against him.