Features of revealing the character of Shylock in Shakespeare\'s comedy The Merchant of Venice
Top Shylock Quotes I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls ‘interest.’ Cursèd be my tribe If I forgive him! (act 1, scene 3)
I’ll have my bond. Speak not against my bond. I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. (act 3, scene 3)
Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances. Still have I borne it with a patient shrug (For suff’rance is the badge of all our tribe). You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help. Go to, then. You come to me, and you say “Shylock, we would have moneys”—you say so, You that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold. Moneys is your suit. What should I say to you? Should I not say “Hath a dog money? Is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?” Or Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, Say this: “Fair sir, you spet on me on Wednesday last; You spurned me such a day; another time You call’d me ‘dog’; and for these courtesies I’ll lend you thus much moneys”3? (act 1, scene 3)
A pound of man’s flesh taken from a man Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. (act 1, scene 3)
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. (act 1, scene 3)
my daughter is my flesh and my blood (act 3, scene 1)
I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear; would she were hears’d at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! (act 3, scene 1)
