to bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my looses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, 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 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 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 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.
Act 3, scene 1: In this passage Shylock is saying that people that are Jewish are just like people that are Christian. Meaning the things they do are the same but they are treated differently. In the last line Shylock is saying that like the Christians taught him, he will get revenge.
Do you agree with Shylock’s opinion? If not how so?