SHYLOCK

1. SHYLOCK • LANGUAGE, CHARACTER & THEMES • ACT 3 SCENE 1 (LINES 47-69)

2. ACT 3 SCENE 1- SHYLOCK LINES 47-69 • He hath disgraced 47 • me and hindered me half a million • laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, • scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, 50 • 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, senses, affections, passions? Fed • with the same food, hurt with the same 55 • 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 you poison us, do we not 60 • 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 65 • sufferance be by Christian example? Why, • revenge! The villainy you teach me I will • execute, and it shall go hard but I will better • the instruction. 69

3. Q.1 • Highlight Shylock’s choice of verbs in lines 47- 52. What can you tell about Shylock and Antonio’s relationship with each other?

4. Q. 2 • Who is ‘us’,‘we’ and ‘you’ in lines 58-62? What is the effect of using pronouns like ‘I’ and ‘you’, ‘us’ and ‘them’?

5. Q.3 • What is the purpose of listing the rhetorical questions in lines 52-62? Do they appeal to your logic, emotion or both? Explain how they make you feel?

6. Q.4 • Explain Shylock’s last lines in your own words: ‘The villainy you teach me I will /execute, and it shall go hard but I will better / the instruction’?

7. Q.5 • Shylock has been wronged but there are ways in which he can choose to behave in his situation. What advice would you give him, as a Jew, if you could?

8. Let’s write a paragraph on the language, character and themes of this speech • A paragraph must have a : • TOPIC SENTENCE • EXPLAINING SENTENCE • EXAMPLE FROM TEXT • EFFECT (CONCLUDING STATEMENT)

9. TOPIC SENTENCE • The theme of ______________________________becomes clear in Shylock’s speech to Salerio in Act 3 Scene 1.

10. EXPLAINING SENTENCE: • Shylock’s attitude towards Antonio and Antonio’s treatment of Shylock shows that they are _______________, who hate each other.

11. EXAMPLE: • Shylock uses harsh, (add another adjective)_______________verbs to describe Antonio’s behaviour towards him. Antonio, according to Shylock, has ‘disgraced’ him, ____________________ and _______________________him.

12. EFFECT: • Shylock is deeply offended by this ______________ attitude and wants to take ___________________ from Antonio.

13. LET’S COMPLETE THE NEXT PARAGRAPH • TOPIC SENTENCE • The tone of the speech is extremely ____________ and _______________. • EXPLAINING SENTENCE : • Shylock is __________ because _________________________________. • EXAMPLE : • This is evident from _____________________________________________ • _____________________________________________________________ • EFFECT: • The effect of the tone, conveyed through the strong verbs and rhetorical questions is • _____________________________________________________________ • ____________________________________________________________