Act 4 Quotes Flashcards
thou art come to answer
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
Uncapable of pity, void and empty
From any dram of mercy.
The Duke to Antonio about Shylock
I do oppose,
My patience to his fury, and am arm’d
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
The very tyranny and rage of his.
Antonio to Duke (noble, victim)
To the last hour of act;… mercy
The Duke
We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.
The Duke to Shylock
can I give no reason, nor I will not,
More than lodged hate and a certain loathing
I bear Antonio,
Shylock to the Duke about Antonio
the beach
the wolf
the mountain pines
Antonio (poetic imagery and images to depict how hard-headed Shylock is)
Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.
Antonio to the Duke
mercy
The Duke to Shylock
The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,
Is dearly bought;
Shylock to the Duke
What, man, courage yet!
The Jew shall have my flesh and blood, bones and all,
Ere thou shalt lose me one drop of blood.
Bassanio to Antonio
You cannot better be employ’d, Bassanio
Than to live still and write min epitaph.
Antonio to Bassanio
sole….. soul
Gratiano to Shylock (pun)
wolf
Gratiano to Shylock (animal imagery)
Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous
Gratiano to Shylock
Balthasar… my opinion… bettered with his own learning
Clerk to the room
merciful
Portia to Shylock
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppethas the gentle rain from the heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
Portia to Shylock
When mercy seasons justice.
Portia to Shylock
To do a great right, do a little wrong,
And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Bassanio to Portia
precedent… it cannot be
Portia to Bassanio
And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
Nearest the merchant’s heart.
Portia to Shylock
The flesh?
Portia to Shylock
lest he do bleed to death.
Portia to Shylock
Commend me to your honourable wife:
Tell her the process of Antonio’s end;
Antonio to Bassanio
But life itself, my wife, and all my world,
Are not with me esteem’d above thy life:
I would lose all, aye, sacrifice them all
Here to this devil, to deliver you.
Bassanio to Antonio
if thoist dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate
Unto the state of Venice.
Portia to Shylock
as thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.
Portia to Shylock
all justice…
He shall have nothing but the penalty.
Portia to everyone in general
just a pound of flesh:
Portia to Shylock
Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.
Portia to Shylock
my principal?
Shylock to Portia
yet another hold on you.
Portia to Shylock
The party’gainst the which he doth contrive
Shall seize one half his goods; the other half
Comes to the privy coffer of the state;
And the offender’s life lies in the mercy
Of the duke’s only,’gainst all other voice.
Portia to Shylock
the means
Shylock to Portia
mercy
Portia to Antonio
one half of his goods,..
the gentleman
That lately stole his daughter…
He presently become Christian…
he dies possess’d…
Lorenzo and his daughter.
Antonio to the court
I am not well
Shylock to Antonio (Last words)
know me when we meet again:
Portia to Bassanio
my love withal
Be valued against your wife’s commandment.
Antonio to Bassanio
