Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Merchant of Venice: Prejudice
and Discrimination
- Shylock’s Treatment
- Hath Not A Jews Eye speech
(Act3, Scene 1)
- "Hath not a Jew eye?"
- do we not
have eyes
to see?
- emphasis that
they are human
through
imagery
- "If you prick us, do
we not bleed?"
Anmerkungen:
- "if you tickle us, do we not laugh?"
- syntactic
paralellism
- shows that they have
emotions
- they feel pain,
when hurt
- rhetorical
question
- obvious answer
'yes'
- Making the
Audience agree
- Shakespeare 0saking
the audience think if
they are treating Jews
inhumanly
- "Disgaced me,.hindered me...laughed..
mocked.. scorned...thwarted"
- cumalitive of verbs
- what Antoni has done
- presents him as a victim
- helps us understand
how badly he was
treated
- " the same food,.. the same
weapons. same diseases"
- repetition of "same"
- reinforcing humanity
and how they are similar
to Christians
- how they are not
lower or superior to
Christians
- Shylock's Monologue
- Act1,Scene3: The Deal
- "You that did void your rheum
upon my Beard"
- flemming on his beard
- inhumane
- disrespectful
- "You call me misbeliever,
cut-throat dog"
- not accepting his
faith and religion
- name calling, insulting
- 'dog' unhygienic
wild animals
- "Spit upon my
Jewish Gaberine"
- spat on his
Jewish cloak
- disrespecting Shylock as a
person as well as his religion
- "Hath a dog money? Is
t possible that a cur
can lend 3,000 Ducats"
- Antonio cursed him in the past
and now is asking for money
- Mocking Antonio's decision
- Shylock has power to
control Antonio
- Rhetorical Question
- "For Sufferance is the
badge of all our Tribe
- the long suffering is the
characteristic of the Jews
- 'BADGE' Venetian Jews
had t wear a yellow 'O'
- physically and
mentally/emotionally
- Racist
views
- Portia
- Her
suitor
- Prince of
Morocco
- “Fair as any
man I’ve
looked
upon yet”
- Racial
comment
- "I rather be married to a
death-head with a bone
bone in its mouth than
either of these."
- Prejudice & Discrimination
- Prejudice
- preconceived opinion that is
not based on reason or actual
experience.
- against Jews =
anti-semitic
- Discrimination
- Treating someone unfairly because
of their race/religion/background
- Elizabethan Attitude
- Jews were exiled
from Britain
- Jews aren't able to
go to heaven
- Go to Hell
- Happy to Force
Jewish Converso
- Believed they were
helping them go to
heaven
- "That you Presently
become a Christian"
- not entirely merciful
- Moderne aud.
immoral, not
right
- Hated Jews
- seen as a threat to
the Queen
- religious
conflicts
- "For he is a Christian"
- presents religion as the main
source of their conflict
- religious difference= disagreement
with Shylock's business
- antonio criticises Shylock
for charging interest
- believes his trade is justified
- 16th C Venice Context
- Christians thought
lending money
profit =SIN
- but Jews didn't
- why Ant. + Shy. disagree
about business