"*This speech is often quoted to show that Shakespeare gives very human qualities and feelings even to his villains."
"*Other plays of the time portrayed Jews as totally evil, but this speech is a cry from the heart of a persecuted minority to be treated equally."
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"*It also helps to explain why Shylock behaves as he does, why he hates Antonio so intensely."
"*It sets out the prejudices with which Jews were faced."
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"To bait fish withal; - if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my __?_?_?__."
"He hath disgraced me and __?_?_?__ me half a million - laughed at my losses, mocked at my __?_?_?__, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my __?_?_?__, heated mine enemies - and what's his reason?"
"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew __?_?_?__? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, __?_?_?__, affections, passions?"
"fed with the same food, hurt with the same __?_?_?__, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a __?_?_?__ is?"
REVENGE,8,18
HINDERED,9,35
GAINS,10,37
FRIENDS,11,42
EYES,13,37
SENSES,14,30
WEAPONS,15,53
CHRISTIAN,17,52
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"If you __?_?_?__ us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you __?_?_?__ us, do we not die?"
"And if you __?_?_?__ 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 __?_?_?__? Revenge!"
"If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian __?_?_?__? Why, revenge!"
"The __?_?_?__ you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will __?_?_?__ the instruction."
