Merchant Of Venice Key Quotes

Question 1

Prejudice quote

Answer 1

“If you prick us do we not bleed, if you tickle us do we not laugh”
- Asking how jews are different to christians
- Argument of inequality
- Rhetorical and argumentative skills

Question 2

Gold

Answer 2

“All that glitters is not gold”
- Idea that not everything seems precious
- Nature of appearances as compaired to reality

Question 3

Antonio

Answer 3

“In sooth, I know not why I am sad”
- Fortune and wealth are secondary
- Compared to ones relationtionship and social bond

Question 4

Religion

Answer 4

“How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is christian”
- Signifies predudice
- Hates antonio due to christianity
- Show cases of the interrogation of prejudice as a phenomenom

Question 5

Mercy

Answer 5

“The quality of mercy is not strained”
- Plea to S to shoe mercy to A
- Explores Nature and power of mercy
- Suggests its divine and rises above law