WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer the question that follows it: Enter SHYLOCK Solanio: How now, Shylock! What news among the merchants? Shylock: You knew, none so well, none so well as you, of my daughter's flight. Salerio: That's certain; I, for my part, knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal. Solanio: And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was flidge; and then it is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shylock: She is damn'd for it. Solanio: That's certain, if the devil may be her judge. Shylock: My own flesh and blood to rebel! Solanio: Out upon it, old carrion! Rebels it at these years? Shylock: I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood. Salerio: There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish. But tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any loss at sea or no? 5 10 15 Shylock: There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto; a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon the mart. Let him look to his bond. He was wont to call me usurer; let him look to his bond. He was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him look to his bond. Salerio: Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh. What's that good for? Shylock: To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd 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. 20 25 30 [From Act 3 Scene 1] How does Shakespeare vividly convey Shylock's thoughts and feelings at this moment in the play?