‘A pound of man’s flesh, taken from a man, is not so estimable, profitable neither…’
Antonio says that because Shylock is Jewish surely he will add interest so shylock asks for only one pound of flesh instead of interest with the 3000 ducats.
‘But lend it rather to thine enemy; who if he break, thou may’st with better face, exact the penalty.’
As Antonio asks for the lone, Shylock says why should I when treated him badly instead Antonio says lend to me as your enemy if I break it you can give me punishment. This shows they are really enemies.
Even Shylock’s daughter Jessica finds life with him hellish and is even ‘asham’d to be (her) father’s child’ although she recognizes that it is a ‘heinous sin’ for a daughter to have such feelings. She feels that she may be his blood but not by his behaviour.
‘ If e’er the Jew her father come to heaven, it will be for his gentle daughter’s sake’ Lorenzo shows his discrimination towards Jews by saying if they were not Christians they will not go to heaven.
‘The villain Jew with outcries rais’d the duke’ because his daughter and money have gone. Salerio and Solanio show hostility by calling Shylock not by his real name but as a villain.
‘My daughter! O my ducats…’ Salerio and Solanio mock Shylock when he finds out that his daughter and money have vanished as well as calling him a dog as if not a person at all.
‘Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be matched, unless the devil himself turn a Jew.’
As Tubal enters the scene, they again place prejudice against Jews by comparing them to the devil himself if he turns into a Jew. As if to say they are a menace of evil.
3rd Paragraph shylock showing hostility → Christians and how he suffered
Hostility begins in the first act where Shylock says:
‘You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spit on my Jewish gaberdine…’ which implies that he has been appallingly treated as a Jew.
‘I am as like to call the so again, to spit on the again, to spurn thee too.’ Antonio maintains his prejudice towards even though shylock may be willing to help lend money with interest.
‘To gaze on Christian fools with varnish’d faces’ to teach Jessica not even to look out the window to see the Christians.
In act three, scene one Shylock expresses his ferocity and hatred for Antonio and the suffering he has had to tolerate. ‘Let him look to his bond! He was wont to call me a usurer.’
I the audience feel sympathy at this particular moment when Shylock appeals to common humanity:
