Term 3 Week 5 (Blogging Assignment)
You are required to respond to one of the questions in the Anti-Semitism handout. The question is as follows:
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I think Shakespear's intention of creating Shylock in The Merchant Of Vernice is to show the theme "anti-semitism". Anti-semitism refers to the discrimination against the Jews. Thus in the Merchant of Venice, it show how Christians treat the Jews, and by putting Shylock in, we have a first person view of how Jews would feel as Shylock is one of the main characters.
Example:
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 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 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 Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Explanation:
This is a speech made by Shylock in Act 3 Scene 1. What Shylock is trying to say is that Jews and Christians are alike. They are both normal human beings with hands, organs etc. However, a Christian treats Jew with discrimination. When a Christian wrongs a Jew, why should he follow the Christian way of punishment.
Example:
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 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 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 Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Explanation:
This is a speech made by Shylock in Act 3 Scene 1. What Shylock is trying to say is that Jews and Christians are alike. They are both normal human beings with hands, organs etc. However, a Christian treats Jew with discrimination. When a Christian wrongs a Jew, why should he follow the Christian way of punishment.
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