The Merchant of Venice Shylock classic lines

Jedidiah 2022-01-10 08:01:09

In "The Merchant of Venice", Al Pacino's line is too authentic, it is the first part of Act 3:

To bait fish withal: It is
good to use it for fishing;
if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
Even if his meat is not delicious, at least he can breathe my breath.
He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
he had humiliated me, killing me hundreds of thousands of dollars of business, I laugh at the loss-making,
the mocked AT Gains, My, My Nation Scorned,
sarcasm my surplus, insult my nation,
thwarted my Bargains, Cooled my friends, Heated mine enemies;
destroy my business, alienate my friends, incited my enemies;
?. and the What's his-reason the I AM a of Jew
his reasons What is it? Just because I am a Jew.
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
don’t Jews have five
senses, limbs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
No sense, no emotion, no blood?
fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons,
he is not eating the same food, the same weapon can hurt him,
subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? The
same medicine can heal him. It will be cold in winter and hot in summer, just like a Christian?
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you prick us, do we not bleed
?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you tickle us, do we not laugh
?
if you poison us, do we not die? If you poison us, do we not die
?
and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Then 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 Christian example? Why, revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew,
how can a Christian show his humility? revenge.
The villany you teach me, I will execute,
you have taught me the cruel methods,
and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
And it shall go hard but I will better the instruction .

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  • August 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    A complete tragedy. Sherlock’s tragic fate. Because as a Jew, what we get is contempt and hatred. The law stipulates that we can’t do the work we want to do. We can only give us money. People call us dogs. I think Antonio is cruel because he makes Xia Xia. Locke being a Christian is like killing his soul. He hates Bassanio. He's a flatterer. He doesn't have a backbone. He doesn't deserve Portia.

  • Haylie 2022-03-29 09:01:06

    I can't hate Sherlock at all, but I am very sympathetic~~~ Antonio's people are too cunning! Poor Venetian Merchant...

The Merchant of Venice quotes

  • Bassanio: [confirming her love to him] Like one of two contending in a prize That thinks he has done well in people's eyes Hearing applause and universal shout Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt As doubtful whether what I see be true Until confirmed, signed, ratified... by you .

    Portia: You see me, lord Bassanio, where I stand, such as I am. Though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish to wish myself much better, yet for you, I would be treble twenty times myself. A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich, that only to stand high in your account, I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, exceed account. But the full sum of me is sum of something which, to term in gross, is an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised. Happy in this, she is not yet so old that she may learn. Happier than this, she is not bred so dull that she may learn. Happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit commits itself to yours to be directed as by her governor, her lord, her king. This house, these servants, and this same myself are yours .

  • Portia: [disguised as Balthasar] Do you confess the bond?

    Antonio: I do.

    Portia: Then must the Jew be merciful.

    Shylock: On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.

    Portia: The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed - it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mighty. It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, the attribute to awe and majesty wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. But mercy is above this sceptred sway. It is enthroned in the heart of kings. It is an attribute to God himself and earthly power doth then show likest God's when mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, though justice be your plea, consider this. That in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much to mitigate the justice of your plea.