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ICSE Notes 2016 : English Paper 2 (English Literature) (Ashok Hall Girls Residential School, Almora)

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There are perhaps fewer disturbing lines in all of Shakespeare than Shylock s promise to Solanio and Salarino in Act III, scene i, that he will outdo the evil that has been done to him. Shylock begins by eloquently reminding the Venetians that all people, even those who are not part of the majority culture, are human. A Jew, he reasons, is equipped with the same faculties as a Christian, and is therefore subject to feeling the same pains and comforts and emotions. The speech, however, is not a celebration of shared experience or even an invitation for the Venetians to acknowledge their enemy s humanity. Instead of using reason to elevate himself above his Venetian tormenters, Shylock delivers a monologue that allows him to sink to their level: he will, he vows, behave as villainously as they have. The speech is remarkable in that it summons a range of emotional responses to Shylock. At first, we doubtlessly sympathize with the Jew, whose right to fair and decent treatment has been so neglected by the Venetians that he must remind them that he has hands, organs, dimensions, senses similar to theirs (III.i.5 0 ). But Shylock s pledge to behave as badly as they, and, moreover, to better the instruction, casts him in a less sympathetic light (III.i.6 1 ). While we understand his motivation, we cannot excuse the endless perpetuation of such villainy. 2. What if my house be troubled with a rat, And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats To have it baned? What, are you answered yet? Some men there are love not a gaping pig, Some that are mad if they behold a cat, And others when the bagpipe sings i th nose Cannot contain their urine; for affection, Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood Of what it likes or loathes. . . . ... So can I give no reason, nor I will not, More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing

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