1. SHYLOCK LANGUAGE, CHARACTER & THEMES ACT 3 SCENE 1 (LINES 47-69)

2. ACT 3 SCENE 1- SHYLOCK LINES 47-69 He hath disgraced 47 me and hindered me half a million laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, 50 cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same 55 weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not 60 die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his 65 sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. 69

3. Q.1 1. Highlight Shylock’s choice of verbs in lines 47- 52. What can you tell about Shylock and Antonio’s relationship with each other?

4. Q. 2 1. Who is ‘us’,‘we’ and ‘you’ in lines 58-62? What is the effect of using pronouns like ‘I’ and ‘you’, ‘us’ and ‘them’?

5. Q.3 1. What is the purpose of listing the rhetorical questions in lines 52-62? Do they appeal to your logic, emotion or both? Explain how they make you feel?

6. Q.4 Explain Shylock’s last lines in your own words: ‘The villainy you teach me I will /execute, and it shall go hard but I will better / the instruction’?

7. Q.5 Shylock has been wronged but there are ways in which he can choose to behave in his situation. What advice would you give him, as a Jew, if you could?

8. Let’s write a paragraph on the language, character and themes of this speech A paragraph must have a : TOPIC SENTENCE EXPLAINING SENTENCE EXAMPLE FROM TEXT EFFECT (CONCLUDING STATEMENT)

9. TOPIC SENTENCE The theme of ___________________________ ___becomes clear in Shylock’s speech to Salerio in Act 3 Scene 1.

10. EXPLAINING SENTENCE: Shylock’s attitude towards Antonio and Antonio’s treatment of Shylock shows that they are _______________, who hate each other.

11. EXAMPLE: Shylock uses harsh, (add another adjective)_______________verbs to describe Antonio’s behaviour towards him. Antonio, according to Shylock, has ‘disgraced’ him, ____________________ and _______________________him.

12. EFFECT: Shylock is deeply offended by this ______________ attitude and wants to take ___________________ from Antonio.

13. LET’S COMPLETE THE NEXT PARAGRAPH TOPIC SENTENCE The tone of the speech is extremely ____________ and _______________. EXPLAINING SENTENCE : Shylock is __________ because _________________________________. EXAMPLE : This is evident from _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ EFFECT: The effect of the tone, conveyed through the strong verbs and rhetorical questions is _____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________