The Many Faces of Shylock
-Vengeful-
"If every ducat in six thousand ducats / Where in six parts, and every part a ducat, / I would not draw then, / I would have my bond."
4.1.85-88
"A certain loathing / I bear Antonio..."
4.1.60.61
"The pound of flesh which I demand of him, / Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it."
4.1.99-100
-Greedy-
"I am right loath to go: / There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, / for I did dream of money-bags tonight."
2.5.16-18
"Justice! The law! My ducats and my daughter! / A sealed bag. Two sealed bags of ducats, / of double ducats, stol'n from me by my daughter! / And jewels! Two stones, two right and precious stones, stol'n by my daughter! / Justice! Find the girl! / She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats!"
2.8.17-22
"And by near guess of my memory, / I cannot instantly raise up the gross/ Of full three thousand ducats."
1.3.50-52
-Prejudice (agianst Christians)-
"I hate him for he is a Chrisian."
1.3.38
"But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon / The prodigal Christian."
2.5.14-15
"Nor thrust your head into the public street / To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces."
2.5.32-33
-Religous-
"For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. / You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, / And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,..."
1.3.106-115
"When Jacob graz'd his uncle haban's sheep- / This Jacob from our holy Abram was, / As his wise mother wrought in his behalf, / The third possessor: ay, he was the third-"
1.3.67-70
"Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which / your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I / Will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you walk / with you, and so fallowing; but I will not eat with / you, drink with you, nor pray with you."
1.3.30-34