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Act 4 scene 1
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A
stony
adversary,
an
inhuman
wretch
Duke
– metaphor for
Shylock
and am
armed
To
suffer
with a
quietness
of
spirit
Antonio – assonance shows loss of hope
Shylock, the
world
thinks, and I think so too
Duke –
hyperbole
We
all
expect
a
gentle
answer,
Jew.
Duke
This is no answer, thou
unfeeling
man
Bassanio
- alliteration
As
seek
to
soften
that – than which
what’s
harder?
-
His
Jewish
heart.
Antonio – sibilance, juxtaposition
How shalt thou
hope
for
mercy
, rendering none?
Duke
–
foreshadowing
O be thou
damned
, inexecrable dog
Gratiano
- prejudice, metaphor
thy desires
Are wolfish, blood, starved, and ravenous.
Gratiano
- listing
The
quality
of
mercy
is not
strained,
It droppeth as the
gentle
rain from heaven
Portia
- simile
It
blesseth
him that
gives
, and him that
takes.
Portia - personification of mercy
It is an
attribute
to
God
himself
Portia
- mercy
A Daniel…
yea
a Daniel!
Shylock
- repetition
You must
prepare
your
bosom
for his
knife.
Portia -
imperative
, suspense
Commend me to your
honourable
wife…
Say how I
loved
you, speak me
fair
in
death
Antonio
–
iambic pentameter
,
imperatives
But
life
itself, my
wife
, and all the
world
,
Are
not
with
me
esteemed
above
thy
life.
Bassanio -
triplication
, irony
Tarry
a
little,
there is something else.
Portia -
caesura
no jot of blood.
Portia
-
assonance
, monosyllabic
a Daniel, Jew!
Gratiano
– mimics
Shylock
,
repetition
He shall have
merely justice
Portia
Down
, therefore, and beg
mercy
of the
Duke.
Portia
- imperative
A
halter
gratis
– nothing else, for God’s sake
Gratiano - the ‘mercy’ Shylock deserves, biblical language
I
pray
you
give
me
leave
to go from
hence
Shylock - begging
Shall I lay
perjury
upon my
soul?
No
, not for
Venice.
Shylock -
hypophora