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• "Three thousand ducats, well" -Shylock's first line, reinforcing Jewish stereotypes

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "I hate him for he is a Christian... he lends out money gratis" Shylock first presented as vindictive and money-obsessed

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose" Antonio compares Shylock to a devil

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek" Simile, Antonio compares Shylock to the devil again

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O what a goodly outside falsehood hath! " Appearance vs reality

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." Sympathy built for Shylock as he recalls the prejudice he has faced

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "Hath a dog money? Is it possible a cur can lend three thousand ducats?" Shylock showing Antonio that he can reject his proposal now that Antonio needs help from him

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "I am as like to call thee so again, to spit upon thee again, to spurn thee also" Antonio is cold, and doubles down on his treatment of Shylock

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "gentle Jew, the Hebrew will turn Christian, he grows kind" Antonio shows his antisemitism

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "our house is hell" and "what heinous sin is it in me to be ashamed to be my fathers child!" Jessica is emphatic and is guilty that she dislikes being Shylock's daughter + biblical language shows strength of her emotions


  Act 2, Scene 3
• "Tell gentle Jessica I will not fail her" and "If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven, it will be for his gentle daughter's sake" Lorenzo thinks extremely highly of Jessica and describes her as gentle twice, could be a play on words of gentile


  Act 2, Scene 4
• "Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies themselves commit" love can be foolish, says Jessica


  Act 2, Scene 6
• "There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory" Uses juxtaposing imagery to show just how unlike the two are


  Act 3, Scene 1
• "laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled mine friends, heated mine enemies - and what's his reason? I am a Jew" Listing to show how much Antonio has done juxtaposition shows extent


  Act 3, Scene 1
• "Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses passions?" Rhetorical questions for effect


  Act 3, Scene 1
• "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" Rhetorical questions used 


  Act 3, Scene 1
• "If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge!" All Christian has taught Shylock is violence, so he will show them the same


  Act 3, Scene 1
• "I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear" shows extent to Shylock's obsessiveness over money


  Act 3, Scene 1
• "I pray you tarry, pause a day or two"

  "forbear a while"

  "One half of me is yours, the other half yours"

  Structurally, Portia aims to waste time

  Act 3, Scene 2
• "Go, Hercules!"

  "bred, head, nourished"

  To subliminally effect Bassanio's decision

  "I would be trebled twenty times myself, a thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich" Portia wants to devote and improve herself to be worthy enough for Bassanio


  Act 3, Scene 2
• "her lord, her governor, her king" displays ownership of women in society and semantic field of authority


  Act 3, Scene 2
• "Which when you part from, lose, or give away, let it presage the ruin of your love" Rings hold great importance

  "When this ring parts from this finger, then parts life from hence"


  Act 3, Scene 2
• "An inhuman wretch, uncapable of pity, void and empty from any dram of mercy" Duke already favours Antonio, not a fair trial


  Act 4, Scene 1
• "Why he cannot abide a gaping pig, why he a harmless necessary cat, why he a woollen bagpipe"

  "More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing"

  Shylock compares Antonio to three things typically hated


  Act 4, Scene 1
• "If every part in six thousand ducats were in six parts, and every part a ducat, I would not draw them; I would have my bond"

  "Tis mine, I will have it"

  "There is no power in the tongue of man to alter me"

  Shylock extremely eager to get his bond


  Act 4, Scene 1
• "It blesseth him that gives and him that takes"

  "Mercy is above this sceptred sway"

  "We do pray for mercy"

  Portia gives Shylock the chance to be merciful and gives a long speech, but Shylock does not entertain this idea.


  Act 4, Scene 1
• "Commend me to your honourable wife"

  "Say how I loved you"

  "Life itself, my wife and all the world are not with me esteemed above thy life. I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all here to this devil, to deliver you"

  Love between Antonio and Bassanio


  Act 4, Scene 1
• "Take my life" x2

  "He presently become a Christian"

  "I am not well"


  Act 4, Scene 1
• "In such a night" x6

  "Medea gathered the enchanted herbs that did renew old Aeson"

  "Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well, stealing her soul with many vows of faith and ne'er a true one"

  "like a little shrew"


  "I am never merry when I hear sweet music"

  
  

  Act 5, Scene 1
• "In sooth I know not why I am so sad" - Melancholy atmosphere

  "A stage where every man must play a part, and mine a sad one"

  Act 1, Scene 1
• "To you, Antonio, I owe the most in money and in love"

  "My purse, my person, my extremest means lie all unlocked to your occasions"

  Act 1, Scene 1
• "my little body is aweary of this great world"

  "I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father"

  Act 1, Scene 2
• "I had rather be married to a death's head with a bone in his mouth than to either of these"

  "God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man"

  "who can converse with a dumbshow?

  "when he is worst he is little better than a beast"

  Act 1, Scene 2 (Portia's opinion of previous suitors)
• "I will buy with you, sell with you, walk with you, talk with you and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you"

  "How like a fawning publican he looks!"

  "thrift is a blessing if men steal it not"

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "void your rheum upon my beard, and foot me as you spurn a stranger cur"

  "you spat on me... you spurned me... you called me dog"

  Act 1, Scene 3
• "I am not solely led by nice direction of a maiden's eyes. Besides, the lottery of my destiny bars me the right of voluntary choosing"

  "stood as fair as any comer I have looked on yet"

  Act 2, Scene 1
• "this Jew"

  "the Jew my master... is a kind of devil"

  "Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnation"

  "I am a Jew if I serve the Jew any longer"

  Act 2, Scene 2
• "Tell gentle Jessica I will not fail her"

  "If e'er the Jew her father comes to heaven it will be for his gentle daughter's sake"

  Act 2, Scene 4
• "Christian fools"

  "I have a father, you a daughter, lost"

  Act 2, Scene 5
• "love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit"

  "a gentle and no Jew!"

  "I love her heartily... she is wise.. fair she is... true she is... "

  "Act 2, Scene 6