Act 2 scene 5

• I am not bid for love, they flatter me; But yet I’ll go in hate, to feed upon

  The prodigal Christian.


  Shylock - language of ‘feed’ as in his hatred and revenge
• There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

  For I did dream of money bags tonight.


  Shylock - forshadowing, dramatic irony
• Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter

  My sober house


  Shylock - antithesis
• Do as I bid you, shut doors after you. Fast bind, fast find.


  Shylock - caesura, imperatives, repetition, rhyme
• I have a father, you a daughter, lost

  jessica - iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets with “crossed”, ruthless