Act 1 Scene 3

• Antonio shall be bound.

  Antonio shall become bound, well.


  Bassanio and Shylock mirrored language, repetition again of “Antonio bound.” - Shylock
• Antonio is a good man- …

  Ho no, no, no, no:


  Shylock- caesura, repetition to emphasise he doesn’t think Antonio is a noble man, just a rich one
• there is the peril of waters, winds and

  rocks.


  Shylock - rule of three, prose
• I hate him for he is a Christian 


  Shylock
• I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.


  Shylock - alliteration, malevolent, revenge
• The devil can site Scripture for his purpose.


  Antonio - prejudice and religion
• An evil soul producing holy witness

  Is like a villain with a smiling cheek

  Antonio - juxtaposition, simile
• suff’rance is the badge of all our tribe.


  Shylock - religion
• You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,

  And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine 


  Shylock - rule of three
• You that did void your rheum upon my beard,

  And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur 


  Shylock - part of Jewish identity
• ‘Hath a dog money? Is it possible

  A cur can lend three thousand ducats?’


  Shylock- rhetorical questions, parody
• With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness


  Shylock - alliteration, plosives
• I am as like to call thee so again,

  To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.


  Antonio - rule of three, monosyllabic, direct
• You shall not seal to such a bond for me


  Bassanio - sibilance, friendship
• Come on, in this there can be no dismay,

  My ships come home a month before the day.


  Antonio - rhyming couplets, last line if the scene, confidence and bravado